BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Speaker Series on the Future of the Indian Economy X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260717T181724Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_46049301664691 DTSTART:20240522T233000Z DTEND:20240523T004500Z DESCRIPTION: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 manag ement and innovation and links them to growth outcomes. This study\, funde d 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 manufac turing sector up to the standards of its current high performers.\n\nFor o ur Speaker Series event\, the King Center welcomes: Nicholas Bloom and Meg ha Patnaik\, both Principal Investigators of the study\; Rohini Chakravart hy\, Managing Partner at NewBuild Venture Capital\; and Naushad Forbes\, c o-chairperson of Forbes Marshall and past president of the Confederation o f Indian Industry (CII). The panel will explore the past\, present and fut ure of the Indian economy\, and outline specific factors that can be addre ssed to improve company\, industry and national outcomes.\n\nSchedule\n4:0 0 PM–4:30 PM: Registration\n4:30 PM–5:45 PM: Panel discussion with Nic holas Bloom\, Rohini Chakravarthy\, Naushad Forbes and Megha Patnaik\, fol lowed by Q&A moderated by Nicholas Bloom\n5:45 PM–6:30 PM: Reception\n\n About the Panelists\n\nNicholas Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of E conomics at Stanford University\, a senior fellow of SIEPR\, and the co-di rector 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 pra ctices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury and McKins ey & Company.\n\nRohini Chakravarthy is Managing Partner at NewBuild Ventu re Capital\, where she invests in early-stage enterprise and supply chain software companies. AI is an important enabling trend for her thematic fir m. Prior to founding NewBuild Venture Capital\, Rohini was a venture capit alist 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 h as been on the India investment committees at her firms.\n\nNaushad Forbes is the Co-Chairperson of Forbes Marshall\, India's leading process and en ergy efficiency company. He is Chair of the Ananta Aspen Centre and the C entre for Technology\, Innovation and Economic Research (CTIER). Forbes wa s an occasional Lecturer and Consulting Professor at Stanford University f rom 1987 to 2004. He has received his Bachelor's\, Master's and PhD degree s from Stanford. Forbes is on the board of several educational institution s and public companies. Forbes has long been an active member of the Confe deration of Indian Industry (CII) and was President of CII from 2016 to 20 17.\n\nMegha Patnaik is an assistant professor in the Department of Econom ics & Finance at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome and a research affil iate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Her research interests in clude management\, entrepreneurship\, machine learning and open-source big data. Previously\, she was faculty at the Indian Statistical Institute an d the Lead Economist at the Esya Centre and a data science consultant at I ntuit\, Britannia\, and Ambit Capital. GEO:37.429251;-122.165344 LOCATION:Gunn Building (SIEPR)\, Koret-Taube Conference Center SUMMARY:Speaker Series on the Future of the Indian Economy URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/speaker-series-future-india n-econ CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR