PGPPM Policy Talk Series
PGPPM Policy Talk Series 2024-2025
PGPPM students host special talk on Emotional Intelligence as a policy tool as part of ‘Policy Speaks’ series
| Name | Designation | Date | Topic |
| Mr. Jasmine Shah | Former Vice Chairperson, Dialogue and Development Commission | 13-Jan-2025 | ‘Rethinking Development: A Perspective from the Delhi Model |
| Dr. R Anandakumar | Commissioner(Trg.), Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (Trg.), Government of Tamil Naidu | 14-Feb-2025 | Impact of Emotional Intellegence (EI) Concepts as a policy tool in government organisations |
| Dr. R Balasubramaniam | Member HR, Capacity Building Commission | 20-Feb-2025 | Historical Evolution of Public Policy |
| Mr. Ashwani Lohani | Former Chairman and Managing Director - Air India and Former Chairman - Railway Board | 06-Mar-2025 | Leadership: Lessons from Experience |
PGPPM Policy Talk Series 2023-2024
| Name | Designation | Date | Topic |
| Professor Sanjeeva Rao A | Professor, National Academy of Indian Railways & Former Addl.General Manager, RVNL |
12-Dec-23 | PMGatiShakti - National Master Plan |
| Shri.Manish Dabkara | Chairman & MD, EKI Energy Services Ltd. | 22-Dec-23 | Carbon Finance |
| Professor S.M. Shivaprasad | Director of Karnataka State Higher Education Academy, Dharwad | 17-Jan-24 | National Education Policy |
| Dr.Surya Lakshmi | FA & CAO CONSTRUCTION, South Eastern Railway | 7-Feb-24 | DMHP learnings and MHCB provisions- A decade later |
| Shri. Amarjit Singh | IAS, Guj. 1982 (R) | 21-Feb-24 | A case study from Gujarat on PPP in the Health sector to address Maternal Mortality |
PGPPM Policy Speak Series
| Name | Designation | Date | Topic |
| Mr. Jasmine Shah | Former Vice Chairperson, Dialogue and Development Commission | 13-01-2025 | ‘Rethinking Development: A Perspective from the Delhi Model |
| Dr. R Anandakumar | Commissioner(Trg.), Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (Trg.), Government of Tamil Naidu | 14-02-2025 | Impact of Emotional Intellegence (EI) Concepts as a policy tool in government organisations |
| Dr. R Balasubramaniam | Member HR, Capacity Building Commission | 20-02-2025 | Historical Evolution of Public Policy |
| Mr. Ashwani Lohani | Former Chairman and Managing Director - Air India and Former Chairman - Railway Board | 06-03-2025 | Leadership: Lessons from Experience |
| Name | Designation | Date | Topic |
| Professor Sanjeeva Rao A | Professor, National Academy of Indian Railways & Former Addl.General Manager, VNL | 12-Dec-23 | PMGatiShakti - National Master Plan |
| Shri.Manish Dabkara | Chairman & MD, EKI Energy Services Ltd. | 22-Dec-23 | Carbon Finance |
| Professor S.M. Shivaprasad | Director of Karnataka State Higher Education Academy, Dharwad | 17-Jan-24 | National Education Policy |
| Dr.Surya Lakshmi | FA & CAO CONSTRUCTION, South Eastern Railway | 7-Feb-24 | DMHP learnings and MHCB provisions- A decade later |
| Shri. Amarjit Singh | IAS, Guj. 1982 (R) | 21-Feb-24 | A case study from Gujarat on PPP in the Health sector to address Maternal Mortality |
| S.No | Name | Image | Designation | Date | Title | Link |
| 1 | Amit Dubey |  |
Associated with training cyber professionals of the government departments, including the defence forces | October 21 | ‘Cyber security expert Amit Dubey addresses IIMB students on ‘Data Privacy Challenges and Cyber Attack Vectors’ | Read more |
| 2 | Mr Krishnan; |  |
IAS | September 30 | ‘PPPs are not a panacea’: S. Krishnan, IAS | Read more |
| 3 | Dr. Ajai Kumar Garg |  |
Director (International Cooperation & Bilateral Trade, Innovation and IPR), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India | September 16 | ‘India needs to grow a strong software product ecosystem’ | Read more |
| 4 | Akhilesh Ranjan |  |
former member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes and an authority on Income Tax in India | August 19 | Tax expert addresses challenges posed by digitalization of businesses to tax policy in talk to IIMB students | Read more |
| 5 | Dr. Balasubramanian Ramani |  |
Advisor and Regional Coordinator of India Relations, Leibniz University | August 12 | COVID-19 Lessons from Germany: Deft leadership and a strong enabling environment | Read more |
| 6 | Dr Arvind Panagariya |  |
Professor of Indian Political Economy & Professor of Economics, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University | August 06 | ‘Size matters because large firms enhance productivity and encourage exports’: Dr Arvind Panagariya to IIMB students | Read more |
| 7 | Dr. Richard Cash |  |
Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health | August 05 | Achieve scale through simplicity: Harvard’s Dr. Richard Cash says to IIMB students in a virtual lecture on scaling up health programmes | Read more |
| S.No | Name | Image | Designation | Date | Title | Link |
| 1 | Sukriti |  |
Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs at LinkedIn India | October 10 | LinkedIn’s Economic Graph: Data-driven Insights for Policymaking | Read more |
| 2 | Rakesh Gupta |  |
Project Director, Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associates Program | October 09 | Best Practices of Good Governance in Haryana | Read more |
| 3 | Dr Arunabha Ghosh |  |
CEO, Council of Energy, Environment, and Water | 03 September 2019 | Squaring India’s Impossible Trinity – Jobs, Growth, and Sustainability | Read more |
| 4 | Mr TS Vishwananth |  |
Principal Advisor with API-SLG Law Office | 30 August 2019 | The Data Debate: Discussion on Global Data Flows and Security Issues | Read more |
| 5 | Ajay Seth |  |
Managing Director at Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. | 26 June 2019 | Public Transport System in Bangalore | Read more |
| 6 | Dr Hasmukh Adhia |  |
Non-Executive Chairman of Bank of Baroda, Former Finance Secretary of Govt of India | 25 June 2019 | Tax Challenges in India and Lateral Entry to Civil Services | Read more |
| 7 | Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Deependra Singh Hooda |  |
Former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, India Army | 12 June 2019 | The Challenges to National Security | Read more |
| 8 | Dr Ashok Nag |  |
Former Adviser in Statistics and Information Management Dept. | 11 June 2019 | Concept of Central Bank Digital Currency | |
| 9 | Dr. Kalpana Gopalan |  |
IAS Officer | 22 May 2019 | Bangalore: A Test Case for Government, Policymakers, Urban Planners | Read more |
| 10 | Chetan Krishnaswamy |  |
Director, Public Policy, Google India | 15 May 2019 | Data Privacy and Freedom of Expression | Read more |
| Sl.No | Name | Image | Designation | Date | Topic |
| 1 | Mr. Anup Bagchi |  |
Executive Director, ICICI Bank Ltd. | 23-May-18 | Policy Making in Financial Services: A Few Case Studies |
| 2 | Prof. Antony P D’Costa |  |
Chair and Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies, Director, Development Studies Program, University of Melbourne | 28-May-18 | International Mobility of Technical Professionals from India to Japan: Business Interfacing in a Changing Global Economy |
| 3 | Mr. Tarun Cherukuri |  |
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Indus Action Initiatives | 30-May-18 | Right to Education Act |
| 4 | Mr. Pawan Sachdeva |  |
Consulting Analyst – Urban Water Sector | 20-Jun-18 | Urban Water Management & Governance |
| 5 | Dr Nischal B |  |
Additional CIT. Cheenai | 5-Jul-18 | Use of Data Analytics in Public Services |
| 6 | Prof. V.S. Ramamurthy |  |
Former Secretary, Ministry of Science and technology and Former Dierctor, National Institute of Advance Studies | 25-Jul-18 | Science and technology Policy in India |
| 7 | Dr. Akash Malik |  |
National Manager – Health System Strengthening, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | 12-Sep-18 | Health programs influencing policies or policy influencing health programs? |
| 8 | Mr.Rahul Nainwal | Co-Founder – Cash Relief | 15-Oct-18 | Rupees from Heaven | |
| 9 | Dr. Alan Gelb |  |
Senior Fellow & Director of Studies, Center for Global Development | 12-Nov-18 | Digital Identification, Privacy and Development |
| 10 | Ms.Seema Bansal |  |
Director-Social Impact & Education Practice, Boston Consulting Group | 19-Dec-8 |
Social Impact & Education Sector Consulting |
| 11 | Mr. Shoikat Roy |  |
Consultant-Social Impact & Education Practice, Boston Consulting Group | ||
| 12 | Mr. Chanchalapathi Dasa | Vice Chaiman and Trustee, The Akshaya Patra Foundation | 2-Jan-19 | Social Entreprenuship for Sustainable Human Development |
| Sl.No | Name | Image | Designation | Date | Topic |
| Sl.No | Name | Image | Designation | Date | Topic |
| 1 | Mr. Sibichen K. Mathew | IRS- Commissioner of Income Tax (TDS), Bangalore | 2-May-17 | PGPPM:Journey towards Excitement and Excellence | |
| 2 | Mr. Anantha Agasthya |  |
Principal Facilitator – ILIFESigmond | 7-Sep-17 | Impact of Bureaucratic Structres: Lessons for Policy Makers |
| 3 | Dr.Kalpana Gopalan |  |
IAS | 13-Sep-17 | Public Private Partnership-Theory and Practices |
| 4 | Mr.Sudhansu Mohanty |  |
Former Financial Adviser, Defense Services (FADS), Ministry of Defence | 20-Sep-17 | Ethics in Public Governance |
| 5 | Mr. N Ravi |  |
Senior Fellow, CPP, IIMB | 26-Oct-17 | Emerging World Order |
| 6 | Dr. Seema Iyer |  |
Director, Real Estate and Economic Development (REED), Merrick School of Business (MSB) | 8-Nov-17 | Collaborative Planning for a Sustainable Bangalore |
| 7 | Ms Paula Stern |  |
Founder & Chairwoman, The Stern Group, Inc. | 8-Nov-17 | US Trade Policy |
| 8 | Mr. Ameen Haque | Founder -Storywallahs | 13-Dec-17 | Innovation and Change Management | |
| 9 | Mr. Nikhil Pahwa |  |
Founder & Editor of MediaNama | 10-Jan-18 | Net Neutrality |
| 10 | Mr. JSV Prasad |  |
IAS, Special Chief Secretary to Govt. of A.P | 24-Jan-18 | Learnings from PGPPM |
| 11 | Mr. Manikyala Rao |  |
Minister for Endowments, Govt. of A.P | 24-Jan-18 | Management & Governance of Endowments |
Bank the unbanked; fund the unfunded
Dr. Hasmukh Adhia speaks to IIMB students on ‘Monetary Policy in Advanced and Emerging Countries – Comparison and Contrasts’, on July 3, 2015. He was invited to speak to the students of the course offered by Dr. Charan Singh, RBI Chair Professor of Economics, IIMB.
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