IRADe-IIEF State of Market Conclave 2005
06 - 08 January 2005, Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, India

DAY ONE: :
Thursday, 06 January 2005

Registration and coffee

Inaugural Session
Gautam Bhardwaj
Managing Director, Invest India Economic Foundation (IIEF)

Opening remarks
Dr. Kirit S. Parikh
Member, Planning Commission, Government of India

Opening remarks
Michael Carter, Country Director (India), The World Bank

Inaugural address
P. Chidambaram
Union Finance Minister, Government of India

Questions

Vote of thanks
Dr. Jyoti Parikh
Executive Director, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe)

Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited
National Securities Depository Limited
The Stock Exchange, Mumbai
Financial services demo participants listed alphabetically

DAY ONE:
Thursday, 06 January 2005

Second Generation Financial Sector Reforms  

Session Chairman
Dr. Parthasarathi Shome
Adviser to the Union Finance Minister, Government of India

Opening remarks by the Session Chairman

Speaker
Dr. Vijay Kelkar
Chairman, India Development Foundation

Comments by panelists
Dr. Narendra Jadhav
Principal Adviser and Chief Economist
Reserve Bank of India

Dr. Urjit R. Patel
Chief Policy Officer, Infrastructure Development Finance Company

Uday S. Kotak
Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Dr. Ajay Shah
Consultant
Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance

Sanjay Nayar
Country Head (India), Citibank N.A.

Questions

Closing remarks by the Session Chairman

DAY ONE:
Thursday, 06 January 2005

Special Keynote Address

Special Keynote Speaker
Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Deputy Chairman Planning Commission

Government of India

Questions

India's Banking Sector

Chairman
N.S. Sisodia
Secretary (FS), Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Crystal ball gazing: India's public sector banks in 2014
A.K. Purwar
Chairman, State Bank of India

Comments by the Chair and questions

 DAY ONE:
Thursday, 06 January 2005

How the World sees Indian Finance

Session Chairman
G.N. Bajpai
Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India

Opening remarks and introduction by the Session Chairman

Speaker
Prof. Marti G. Subrahmanyam
Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance and Economics, New York University

Comments by panelists
Dr. Shankar Acharya
Member, 12 th Finance Commission, Government of India

U.K. Sinha
Joint Secretary (CM & Pensions), DEA, Ministry of Finance

S.K. Mitra
Director (Financial Services)
Aditya Birla Group

Sanjay Sachdev
CEO and Country Manager, Principal Financial Group

Dominique Dwor-Frecaut
Director (Asian Research), Barclays Capital

Questions

Closing remarks by the Session Chairman

DAY ONE:
Thursday, 06 January 2005

Special Address
Dr. Rakesh Mohan
Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Questions

End of Day One

onwards at the Shah Jahan Hall, Taj Palace Hotel

DAY TWO:
Friday, 07 January 2005

Regulatory Coordination: Panel discussion

Session chairman
Prof. Jayanth Varma
Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Opening remarks and introduction by the Session Chairman

Background issues for panel discussion
Priya Basu
Senior Financial Sector Economist, The World Bank

Panel discussion
P.A. Balasubramanian
Member, Insurance Regulatory Development Authority

Dr. Jaimini Bhagwati
Chief Officer, Corporate Finance Department, The World Bank

Rajnikant Patel
Chief Executive Officer, The Stock Exchange, Mumbai

Questions

Closing remarks by the Session Chairman

DAY TWO:
Friday, 07 January 2005

Rethinking Pension Provision for India

Session Chairman
Dr. S. Narayan
Former Adviser to the PMO

Opening remarks and introduction by the Session Chairman

Opportunities and difficulties in India's pension reforms
Dr. Robert Palacios
Senior Pensions Economist, The World Bank

Comments by panelists
Dr. S.A. Dave
Chairman, India Pension Research Foundation

Anand Bordia
Adviser National Highways Authority of India

Anuroop Singh
Managing Director, Max New York Life Insurance Co. Limited

S.V. Prasad
Chief Executive Officer, Birla Sun Life AMC Limited

Questions

Closing remarks by the Session Chairman

DAY TEO: :
Friday, 07 January 2005

Derivatives Markets in India

Session Chairman
Dr. Ashok Lahiri
Chief Economic Adviser, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Opening remarks and introduction by the Session Chairman

The coming of age of derivatives exchanges in India
Chitra Ramkrishna
Deputy Managing Director, National Stock Exchange of India

Comments by panelists
Dr. Jaimini Bhagwati
Chief Officer, Corporate Finance Department, The World Bank

Dr. Susan Thomas
Assistant Professor, IGIDR

P.H. Ravikumar
Managing Director & CEO
National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange

Joseph Massey
Deputy Managing Director, Multi Commodity Exchange of India

Questions

Closing remarks by the Session Chairman

DAY TWO:
Friday, 07 January 2005

Financing Infrastructure

Session Chairman
Dr. Kirit S. Parikh
Member, Planning Commission, Government of India

Opening remarks and introduction by the Session Chairman

nnovations and constraints in financing infrastructure projects
Ashok Wadhwa
Managing Partner, Ambit Corporate Finance

Comments by panelists
Gajendra Haldea
Adviser
Planning Commission, Government of India

Dr. Sudipto Mundle
Chief Economist & Deputy Country Director, Asian Development Bank

Dr. Surjit Bhalla
President
O[x]us Research & Investments , Luis Miranda

Chief Executive Officer
IDFC Asset Management Company

Hemant Sahai
Managing Partner
Hemant Sahai Associates, Questions

 Closing remarks by the Session Chairman

End of day two

Saturday, 08 January 2005

Reaching out to the Next 500 Million Customers

Session Chairperson

Rama Bijapurkar
Consultant

Opening remarks and introduction by the Session C hairperson

How financial sector policy can foster access for the poor

Marilou Jane D. Uy
Director (Financial Sector Operations & Policy) and Chair of Financial Sector Board, The World Bank

Comments by panelists
Vijay Mahajan
Managing Director, BASIX

Ajay Srinivasan
Chief Executive
Fund Management, Prudential Corporation Asia
Jignesh Shah

Chief Executive Officer
Financial Technologies Limited


Gautam Bhardwaj
Managing Director, Invest India Economic Foundation

Questions

 Closing remarks by the Session Chairperson

DAY THREE
Saturday, 08 January 2005

Banking Policy  

Session Chairman
Dr. Shankar Acharya
Member, 12 th Finance Commission, Government of India

Opening remarks and introduction by the Session Chairman

Finding the right mix in banking regulation
Dr. Raghuram Rajan
Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund

Comments by panelists
B.D. Narang
Chair and Managing Director
Oriental Bank of Commerce

G.V. Nageswara Rao
Managing Director, IDBI Bank

Mahesh Vyas
Managing Director, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy

Dr. Rajiv Kumar
Chief Economist, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

Questions
Closing remarks by the Session Chairman

India's Pension Reform: NPS and Beyond
U.K. Sinha
Joint Secretary (CM & Pensions), Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Questions

DAY THRE:
Saturday, 08 January 2005

Securities Market Infrastructure

Session Chairman
Dr. Ajay Shah
Consultant, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance

Opening remarks and introduction by the session chairman

Improving securities market infrastructure
Uday S. Kotak

Vice Chairman and Managing Director
Kotak Mahindra Bank

Comments by panelists
U.K. Sinha
Joint Secretary (CM & Pensions), DEA, Ministry of Finance

C.B. Bhave
Managing Director, National Securities Depository Limited

Prithvi Haldea
Managing Director, Praxis Consulting

R. Gandhi
Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India

Sanjay Bhargava

Consultant

Questions

Closing remarks by the Session Chairman

Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks

Close of IRADe-IIEF State of Market Conclave '05