Draft as on December 1, 2017

19^th Annual

Neemrana Conference

PROGRAMME

December 15-17, 2017

Neemrana Fort-Palace, Rajasthan

Day 1: Friday, December 15

12:30 am Arrival

1 pm Lunch at N K Singh’s residence

2:30 pm Departure for Neemrana Fort

6 pm Welcome Remarks

Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, ICRIER

Opening Remarks

Rajat Kathuria, Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER

6:15 pm India: The State of the Economy

Chair:

Anne Krueger, Senior Research Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University; Senior Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development

Speaker:

Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India

Open discussion

7.30 pm Kathak Dance Performance followed by dinner

Day 2: Saturday, December 16

9 am Session 1: The World Economy

Chair:

N K Singh, Chairman, 15^th Finance Commission, Govt of India; Member, Board of Governors, ICRIER

Speakers:

Karen Dynan, Professor of the Practice, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission,

Government of India

Douglas Elmendorf, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy

10:30 am Tea/Coffee Break

10:45 am Session 2: Banking and Finance

Chair:

Uday Kotak, Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank; Member, Board of Governors, ICRIER

Speakers:

PJ Nayak, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ayana Renewable Power /Krishnamurthy S, Associate Professor of Finance and Executive Director, Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business

Lars Peter Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of

Economics, University of Chicago

Brent Neiman, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business,

University of Chicago

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University

12:30 pm Address by Viral Acharya, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Chair:

Subir Gokarn, Executive Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka, International Monetary Fund

Discussion

1:15 pm Lunch

2:15 pm Session 3: Agriculture, Economic Growth, and Financial Inclusion

Chair:

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission,

Government of India

Speakers:

Alan L. Olmstead, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics,

Department of Economics, University of California, Davis

Ashok Gulati, Infosys Chair Professor for Agriculture, ICRIER

3:15 pm Tea/ Coffee Break

3:30 pm Session 4: Urbanisation

Chair:

Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, ICRIER

Speakers:

Anil Baijal, The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi (TBC)

Rajiv Lall, Founder Managing Director and CEO, IDFC Bank Ltd.

Junaid Kamal Ahmad, India Country Director, World Bank

5:00 pm Session 5: Public Finance and the Macroeconomy

Chair:

YV Reddy, Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Speakers:

Joshua Rauh, Ormond Family Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

M Govinda Rao, Professor Emeritus, NIPFP

Owen Zidar, Assistant Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business,

University of Chicago; Faculty Research Fellow, NBER

Sajjid Z. Chinoy, Chief India Economist, J.P. Morgan

7.00 pm Cultural Event followed by dinner

Day 3: Sunday, December 17, 2017

9 am Session 6: Labour Market and the Challenge of Job Creation

Chair:

Shekhar Shah, Director General, NCAER

Speakers:

Radhicka Kapoor, Fellow, ICRIER

Pankaj Vashisht, Fellow, ICRIER

Amanda Pallais, Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy and Social Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Research Fellow, NBER

10:45 am Tea/Coffee Break

11:00 am Session 7: Education and Skill Development

Chair: Pramod Bhasin, Founder, Genpact Ltd.; Chairman, Clix Capital Services;

Member, Board of Governors, ICRIER

Speakers:

K.P. Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development, and Entrepreneurship, Government of India

Karthik Muralidharan, Associate Professor of Economics and Tata Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Economics, University of California, San Diego

Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT

12:30 pm Lunch

01:30 pm Session 8: Growth, Inequality, and Inclusion

Chair:

Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, Government of India

Speakers:

Surjit Bhalla, Senior India Analyst for the Observatory Group; Chairman, Oxus Research and Investments

Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities, University of California, Berkeley

Benjamin Moll, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs,

Princeton University

3.00 pm Departures