9th Annual IIEF Pension Policy and Business Conference, 2009

Developing an equitable and inclusive Policy to promote retirement savings for India
09 November 2009, Silver Oak, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi, India

08.45      Registration and coffee


Opening
09:30      Backdrop
              Gautam Bhardwaj
              Director, Invest India Economic Foundation 

09.40      Keynote Address
              D. Swarup
              Chairman, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority

10.00      Inaugural Address
              Nandan Nilekani
              Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India, Government of India

10.20      Questions

10.30      Coffee break



Session One: Strategies and incentives for expanding Voluntary Pension Coverage
Chair   Prithvi Haldea
           Trustee, New Pension System Trust
10.50      Session and panel introduction by the Chair

10.55      Building robust outreach, distribution strategies and commercial incentives
               to achieve a mass voluntary market for the NPS
              Dr Ajay Shah
              Senior Fellow, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

11.15      Discussants
              Arbind Modi
              Joint Secretary, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance

              Ashok Pal Singh
              Deputy Director General, India Post

              Ashish Aggarwal
              Chief Executive Officer, Invest India Micro Pension Services

11.50      Questions

12.10      Concluding remarks by the Chair



Session Two: Achieving Equitable Retirement Outcomes for formal sector workers
Chair   G.C. Chaturvedi
           Additional Secretary, Department of Financial Services
           Ministry of Finance, Government of India
12:15      Session and panel introduction by the Chair

12:20      Providing an equitable opportunity to formal sector workers
              to maximise their retirement savings
              Manish Sabharwal
               Chairman, Teamlease

12:40      Discussants
              Rani Nair
              Executive Director, PFRDA

              Jadish Aggarwal
              Managing Partner, HSA

              Russell Galer
              Pension Regulatory and Legal Consultant, ADB

              Dr. Joseph Mariathasan
              Director, Purbeck Advisers, UK

13:10      Questions

13:25      Concluding remarks by the Chair

13.30      Lunch Break 



Session Three: Civil service pension reform 
Chair   Sumit Bose
           Secretary, The Thirteenth Finance Commission
14:30      Session and panel introduction by the Chair

14:35      Civil Service Pension Reforms: The Role for GOI,
              States and the PFRDA in harnessing the NPS model
              Subhash Garg
              Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India

14:55      Discussants
              Dr. Shashank Saksena
              Director, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance

              T. Koshy
              Executive Director, National Securities Depository Limited

              Ernesto Ariel Brodersohn Ostrovich
              CONSAR (Mexico)

              Gary Hendricks
              Pension Consultant, Asian Development Bank

15:35      Questions

15:55      Concluding remarks by the Chair

16:00      Coffee break



Session Four: Using Fiscal Incentives to bridge India's pension coverage gap
Chair   Renana Jhabvala
           Chairperson, SEWA Bharat
16:20      Session and panel introduction by the Chair

16:25      Role for Fiscal Transfers in Delivering a Dignified Retirement.to the
              Working Poor: Lessons from the IIMPS “Micro-Pension” Model
              U. K. Sinha
              Chairman & Managing Director, UTI AMC

16:45      Commentators
              Tarun Bajaj
              Joint Secretary (Insurance & Pension Reforms)
              Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance

              Dr Shubhashis Gangopadhyay
              Director, India Development Foundation

              Dr Robert Palacios
              Senior Pension Economist, The World Bank

              Gautam Bhardwaj
              Director, Invest India Economic Foundation

17:30      Questions

17:50      Concluding remarks by the Chair

17.55      Close of Conference