Courses & Events

King Center Speaker Series on the Future of the Indian Economy

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

04:30 pm - 06:30 pm

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India is positioned to take a global lead with the right interventions to improve markets, management and innovation.

This program is produced by the Stanford King Center on Global Development and co-sponsored by the US-Asia Technology Management Center (US-ATMC), Stanford King Center on Global Development, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (Seed) and the Stanford Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC)

India is the fifth-largest economy in the world and one of the fastest-growing global markets, with a cohort of elite firms. A new study of more than 1,000 manufacturing firms across the country measures management and innovation and links them to growth outcomes. This study, funded by the King Center on Global Development and the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Economic Research (CTIER), explores how India can rapidly accelerate its economic growth by bringing the performance of its manufacturing sector up to the standards of its current high performers.

For their Speaker Series event, the King Center welcomes: Nicholas Bloom and Megha Patnaik, both Principal Investigators of the study; Rohini Chakravarthy, Managing Partner at NewBuild Venture Capital; and Naushad Forbes, co-chairperson of Forbes Marshall and past president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The panel will explore the past, present and future of the Indian economy, and outline specific factors that can be addressed to improve company, industry and national outcomes.

Schedule:
4:00 PM–4:30 PM: Registration
4:30 PM–5:45 PM: Panel discussion with Nicholas Bloom, Rohini Chakravarthy, Naushad Forbes and Megha Patnaik, followed by Q&A moderated by Nicholas Bloom
5:45 PM–6:30 PM: Reception

About the Panelists:

Nicholas Bloom, Faculty Affiliate at the King Center on Global Development

Nicholas Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a senior fellow of SIEPR, and the co-director of the productivity, innovation, and entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a faculty affiliate at the King Center on Global Development. His research focuses on management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury and McKinsey & Company.

Bloom is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of the Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the Bernacer Prize, the European Investment Bank Prize, the Frisch Medal, the Kauffman Medal and a National Science Foundation Career Award. He holds a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from University College London.

Rohini Chakravarthy, Managing Partner at NewBuild Venture Capital

Rohini Chakravarthy is Managing Partner at NewBuild Venture Capital, where she invests in early-stage enterprise and supply chain software companies. AI is an important enabling trend for her thematic firm. Prior to founding NewBuild Venture Capital, Rohini was a venture capitalist at NEA, Intel Capital, and NGP Capital for over 20 years. Over her career, she has invested through several enterprise architectural shifts including wireless networking, big data, cloud computing and AI, and has been on the India investment committees at her firms.

Rohini has served on 15+ boards as an investor board member, and has shepherded many companies through exponential growth, successful acquisitions and IPOs. Outside her day job, she is deeply involved in alumni giving, and actively supports women in technology. She was on the board of the IIT Madras Foundation for six years and is a member of Indiaspora, which is a community platform to shape successful US-India relations.

Naushad Forbes, Co-Chairperson at Forbes Marshall

Naushad Forbes is the Co-Chairperson of Forbes Marshall, India’s leading process and energy efficiency company. He is Chair of the Ananta Aspen Centre and the  Centre for Technology, Innovation and Economic Research (CTIER). Forbes was an occasional Lecturer and Consulting Professor at Stanford University from 1987 to 2004. He has received his bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees from Stanford. Forbes is on the board of several educational institutions and public companies. Forbes has long been an active member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and was President of CII for 2016 – 2017.

Forbes’s book, The Struggle and the Promise: Restoring India’s Potential, was released by HarperCollins in January 2022. He also co-authored, From Followers to Leaders: Managing Technology and Innovation in Newly Industrializing Countries, published by Routledge in 2002. Naushad writes a monthly column for Business Standard.

Megha Patnaik, Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at LUISS Guido Carli

Megha Patnaik is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics and Finance, LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, and a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She received her PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2017. Her research interests include management, entrepreneurship, machine learning, and big data techniques.

 

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This program is open to the public.

For details & registration, please visit: https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/events/lectures-discussions/speaker-series-future-indian-manufacturing