The 3rd Annual Meeting
New Delhi, Taj Palace
25-27 March 2015
Creating New Drivers of Growth
Confirmed speakers
(By alphabetical order, as of 18 January 2015)
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Litd, India
Omer A. Aras, Chief Executive Office Finansbank Group, Turkey
Kunal Bahl - Co-Founder & CEO of Snapdeal.com, India
Hasan Cem Boyner, President The Boyner Group of Companies, Turkey
Canan Celebi, Vice Chair, Managing Director, The Celebi Group, Turkey
Sutat Chew, Executive Vice President, Head Market Development, Singapore Exchange Ltd,
Singapore
Woosuk, Kenneth, Choi, Deputy Editor, Business Department, The Chosun Ilbo, Republic of Korea
Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Director, John Keells Group PLC, Sri Lanka
Tarun Das, Founding Trustee, Ananta Centre, India
Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser, India
Cem Duna, Chairman, AB Consultancy & Investment Services, former Ambassador of Turkey,
Turkey
Sanjiv Goenka , Chairman, RP – Sanjeev Goenka Group, India
Yukon Huang, Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for Peace, USA
Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance, Minister of Corporate Affairs & Minister of Information and
Broadcasting, India
Memduh Karakullukcu, Vice-Chairman and President, Global Relations Forum, Turkey
Yoshiyuki Kasai, Chairman Emeritus, Central Japan Railway Company, Japan
Muharrem Kayhan Ilmi, Vice-Chairman Söktas Inc, Turkey
Joseph Klafter President, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Uday Kotak, Executive Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd
Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman HSBC India & Director HSBC Asia Pacific, India
Benjamin Lim, China Specialist Correspondent, Thomson Reuters, The Philippines
Wendy Luhabe, Chair of the Women Private Equity Fund, South Africa
Jorge Lopez Morton, President Total Energy Systems, Mexico
Tom Miller, Senior Asia Analyst & Editor-at-large, China Economic Quarterly, & Author, China’s
Urban Billion,
Mohd Munir Abdul Majid, Chairman Bank Muamalat Malaysia Behrad, Co-Chairman ASEAN
Business Advisory Council, Malaysia
Andrew M. Mwenda, Strategy and Editorial Director, The Independent, Uganda
Rajan Navani, Managing Director, Jetline Group of Companies, India
Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Ambuja Neotia Group, India
Nandan Nilekani, Former Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India
T N Ninan, Chairman, Business Standard Limited and Chairman, Ananta Aspen Centre, India
Herbert Oberhaensly, Vice President Economics & International Relations, Nestlé Group
Switzerland
SOLI OZEL Professor of International Relations & Political Science, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
B J Panda, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, India
Gopinath Pillai, Executive Chairman, Savant Infocomm., Singapore
Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Railways, Government of India, India
S Ramadorai, Chairman, National Skill Development Agency, India
Sanjay Reddy, Vice Chairman GVK Power & Infrastructure, India
Masakazu Sakakida, Chairman & Managing Director, Mitsubishi Corporation India Private Ltd,
Japan
Abhishek Sinha, Co-Founder & CEO EKO Financial Services, India
N K Singh, Senior Member, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Former Member of Parliament, Rajya
Sabha, India
Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, Government of India, India
Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government, London School Economics
and Political Science, UK
Murat Sungar, Board member, Open Society Foundation, Turkey
Tan Tai Yong, Executive Vice President, Yalre-NUS College, Member of Parliament, Singapore
Sheel Tyle, Founder, S2 Capital & Venture Capitalist (Snapdeal.com, Hired.com, Robinhood,
Andela), USA
Ralph Voltmer, Partner, Head of the India Practice, Covington & Burling, USA
Guanghua Wan, Principal Economist, Asian Development Bank, The Philippines
Wang Huiyao (Henry), Founder & President the Center for China & Globalization, People’s
Republic of China
Michael Yeoh, CEO, Asian Strategy and Leadership Initiative (ASLI), Malaysia