2nd Law Economics Policy Conference 2017
The 2nd Law Economics Policy Conference is being organized by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi and Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York from December 4 to 6, 2017 at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.
Steering Committee
- Upma Chawdhry, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration
- Rajeev Kapoor, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals
- K. P. Krishnan, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- Sunanda Nair Bidkar, Institute for New Economic Thinking
- Ila Patnaik, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
- Rathin Roy, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
- Ajay Shah, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
- B. N. Srikrishna, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India
- Somasekhar Sundaresan, Advocate
- Shardul S. Shroff, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
4 December 2017
Juniper Hall (Entry from Gate No. 1 on Lodhi Road)
| 19:30 - 22:30 | Inauguration and Dinner |
| Inaugural Address Amitabh Kant, NITI Aayog |
5 December 2017
Juniper Hall (Entry from Gate No. 1 on Lodhi Road)
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Opening remarks |
| 09:45 - 11:05 | Panel 1: Public Health |
| Chairperson: C. K. Mishra, Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change |
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| Regulating the health profession Shefali Malhotra, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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| Air pollution Shubho Roy, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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| Health system design thinking Nachiket Mor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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| Panelists | |
| B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Government of Chhattisgarh Yamini Aiyar, Centre for Policy Research Sanjay Arte, True North Managers |
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| 11:05 - 11:25 | Tea/Coffee |
| 11:25 - 12:45 | Panel II: Bankruptcy |
| Chairperson: Injeti Srinivas, Ministry of Corporate Affairs |
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| The issues Bhargavi Zaveri, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research |
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| Panelists | |
| Shashank Saksena, Ministry of Finance Suharsh Sinha, AZB & Partners Sumant Prashant, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | Rule of law and regulation Justice (Retd.) B.N. Srikrishna, Supreme Court of India |
| 14:45 - 16:05 | Panel III: Importance of land market for ease of doing business |
| Chairperson: Vijay Madan, Ex-Secretary, Department of Land Resources |
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| Stylised facts on Maharashtra RERA data Sahil Gandhi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
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| Creating an efficient market in land Anirudh Burman, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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| Panelists | |
| Venkatesh Panchapagesan, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Barun Mitra, Liberty Institute S. Chockalingam, Government of Maharashtra |
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| 16:05 - 16:25 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16:25 - 17:45 | Panel IV: Technology Policy |
| Chairperson: Rajeev Kapoor, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
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| Current debates in technology policy Smriti Parsheera, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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| Panelists | |
| Arunabh Choudhary, Juris Corp Parag Kar, Vice President, Qualcomm Sunil Bajpai, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Sunil Abraham, The Centre for Internet and Society S. Ganesh Kumar, Reserve Bank of India |
6 December 2017
Juniper Hall (Entry from Gate No. 1 on Lodhi Road)
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Panel V: Courts and Tribunals |
| Chairperson: Shardul S. Shroff, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas |
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| The issues Prasanth Regy, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India |
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| Judicial delay: Informalism as panacea? Anuj Bhuwania, South Asian University |
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| Panelists | |
| Anand Prasad, Advocate Somasekhar Sundaresan, Advocate Ritin Rai, Advocate Sanjay Kumar Medhi, Additional Advocate General, Assam |
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| 11:30 - 11:50 | Tea/Coffee |
| 11:50 - 13:20 | Panel VI: Macroeconomic and financial institution building |
| Chairperson: Vijay Kelkar, NIPFP |
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| A progress report Ila Patnaik, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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| Panelists | |
| U. K. Sinha, Ex-Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India Harsh Vardhan, Bain & Company Amit Raje, Goldman Sachs |
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| 13:20 - 14:20 | Lunch |
| 14:20 - 15:50 | Panel VII: Criminal Justice |
| Chairperson: Prakash Singh, Police Foundation and Institute |
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| The issues Renuka Sane, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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| Panelists | |
| P.C. Haldar, Police Foundation and Institute B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Government of Chhattisgarh |
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| 15:50 - 16:10 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16:10 - 17:40 | Panel VIII: High performance regulators |
| The issues Ajay Shah, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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| A regulator for private skills providers K.P. Krishnan, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
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| Panelists | |
| Praveen Garg, Ministry of Finance Somasekhar Sundaresan, Advocate Suyash Rai, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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| 17:40 - 17:50 | Summing up Sunanda Nair Bidkar, Institute for New Economic Thinking Ila Patnaik, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy |
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