India: 15+15 Conference
The conference was held September 22nd, 2009 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York to commemorate fifteen years of our investing in India. Those years have been dramatic in both their volatility and their progress.
The conference reviewed how India changed during that time — both prominent trends and those that are less well understood — and what will change in the 15 years ahead.
It featured short presentations and panel discussions with distinguished policymakers, economists, diplomats, business executives and journalists.
Ambassador
Robert Blackwill
Former US Ambassador to India and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning; currently Senior Fellow and Advisor to the President at the RAND Corporation
Dr. Marc Faber
Economist, investment strategist and publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report
Anand Giridharadas
Columnist for the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune
Edward Luce
Washington D.C. Bureau Chief for the Financial Times, former South Asia Bureau Chief and author of
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
Jim Walker
Founder and Managing Director of Asianomics Limited and previously the Chief Asia Economist for CLSA, during which time he was eleven times voted top Asia economist in the Greenwich survey of fund managers
Dr. Rakesh Mohan
Until June 2009 the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, India’s central bank, where he oversaw monetary policy and financial markets; currently Distinguished Consulting Professor at the Stanford Center for International Development
Dr. Jon Thorn
Director and co-founder, India Capital Management Limited
Dr. David Bloom
Professor of Economics and Demography at Harvard University; Chair of the Department of Health and Population and expert on the relationship between demography and economic growth