India Summit 2013

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With economic storm clouds overhead, India’s general election juggernaut is getting ready to roll. Never has the epithet ‘land of contradictions’ been more fitting. Soon, over 750m people will be able to cast their vote in the world’s biggest democracy. But, how will India’s slumdogs and millionaires vote ? The outcome will be crucial for business and India’s place on the world stage.

+91 Europe is proud to present the most significant India Summit of 2013, to take stock of how different sectors of India’s economy are performing. We will discuss what it will take for the economy to hit top gear again, and how the UK, Europe and America can benefit.

In true +91 style, we will be inviting top CEOs, politicians, academics and media commentators to share their thoughts.

The Montcalm Hotels, Great Cumberland Place, London, United Kingdom

14 November 2013

Schedule

9:00 am 9:30 am Registration

9:30 am 9:40 am Chairman’s welcome and opening address

9:40 am 10:00 am India: Great Expectations

Economic and political climate

Trends and predictions

Demographics

10:00 am 10:40 am Keynote address

Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1993-1997; Home Secretary 1992-1993; Secretary of State for Education 1990-1992; Secretary of State for Health 1988-1990; Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain Secretary of State for Justice 2010-2012. Current member of David Cameron’s cabinet.

His Excellency, Mr Johan Verbeke, Ambassador of Belgium

Anand P. Raman, Editor-at-Large, Harvard Business Review (Moderator)

UK – India: Opportunity for an ambitious new relationship

How can Europe create an enhanced partnership with India ?

How can we drive growth and prosperity in both regions?

10:40 am 11:20 am Opportunities for European companies in India

Rt Hon John Redwood MP; Pioneered privatisation programme in Margaret Thatcher’s government. Secretary of State for Wales 1993-1995; Co-Chairman on Review Group of Economic Competitiveness;

SV Rangan, Director, IFG Worldwide

Anand P. Raman, Editor-at-Large, Harvard Business Review

Shalini Agarwal, Partner, InSe Legal (Moderator)

Outlook for liberalisation of FDI regulations

What industries have the highest growth potential ?

What are the do’s and don’ts of doing business in India ?

Which companies are successful in India ?

11:20 am 11:40 am Morning Coffee

11:40 am 12:20 pm Education, Universities and Skills Providers

Prof Rod Coombs, Deputy President, University of Manchester

Dr Joanna Newman, Director, International, Universities UK

Dr Anil Seal, Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

Christine Shields, Founder, Shields’ Economics (Moderator)

The thirst for education in India and the demographic dividend

What are India’s immediate education needs ?

Which education technologies have most potential in India?

Development of innovation based businesses and the knowledge economy

12:30 pm 2:00 pm LUNCH

2:00 pm 2:45 pm Indian companies on the Global Stage

Mihir Bose, BBC Broadcaster

Dr David Landsman, Executive Director, TATA Europe

Ashish Chauhan, CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange

Anand P. Raman, Editor-at-Large, Harvard Business Review (Moderator)

Expansion of Indian companies in America and Europe

Factors driving foreign acquisitions

What are the competitive strengths of Indian companies?

Case studies

2:45 pm 3:30 pm Healthcare and Life Sciences in India

Lord Ajay Kakkar, Prof of Surgery, University College London. UK Business Ambassador

David Taylor, Prof of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, University College London

Vinay Nair, Head of International Business Development, Acumen Fund

Christopher Thornham, Partner, Taylor Wessing

Development of medical infrastructure, hospitals and diagnostic centres

Opportunities for UK-India collaboration in life sciences research

Affordable healthcare

3:30 pm 3:50 pm Afternoon Tea

3:50 pm 4:30 pm Innovation Spotlight

Jaideep Prabhu, Nehru Professor of Indian Business, Cambridge University

Rajesh Bhatt, General Manager, TATA Europe

Andreas Raptopoulous, CEO, Matternet Inc

Christian Finn, Director, Murgitroyd & Co (Moderator)

How multinational companies leverage Indian talent

Frugal engineering

New technologies which have potential in India

Which companies are using India as an innovation hub

4:30 pm 5:10 pm Luxury Brands Go East Spotlight

Guillaume de Foucault, VP EMEA, Godiva

Katharina Flohr, Managing and Creative Director, Faberge´

Marek Reichman, Director of Design, Aston Martin

Rakesh Rawal, CEO, +91 Europe (Moderator)

The Indian consumer: From Gandhi to Gucci

Building and positioning luxury brands in the Indian market

Luxury cars in India

Speakers

Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer 1993-1997

Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke CH QC MP has been the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe since 1970. He held several Ministerial offices in the Governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major – as Secretary of State for Health, Secretary of State for Education and Science, Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. During a period in opposition he combined his duties as an MP with a variety of business appointments and chaired the Conservative’s Democracy Task Force and as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. On the Conservative’s return to Government in 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. In 2014 he became Minister without Portfolio, working to develop key trade relationships on the Prime Minister’s behalf. He had an advisory brief on the economy and also sat on the National Security Council. He returned to the back benches in July 2014.
His Excellency, Mr Johan Verbeke
Ambassador of Belgium
Rt Hon John Redwood MP
Member of Parliament for Wokingham

Member of Parliament for Wokingham. Chairman of the Conservative Economic Affairs Committee. John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since1987.He won a free place at Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non executive chairman of a quoted industrial PLC, and chaired a manufacturing company with factories in Birmingham, Chicago, India and China. John was an Oxfordshire County Councillor in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he was Chief Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher. He urged her to begin a great privatisation programme, and then took privatisation around the world as one of its first advocates before being elected to parliament. He was soon made a minister, joining the front bench in 1989 as Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Trade and Industry. He supervised the liberalisation of the telecoms industry in the early 1990s and became Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities after the 1992 General Election.

Shortly afterwards, John joined the Cabinet and served as Secretary of State for Wales from 1993 to 1995. In opposition he acted as Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1997-1999), Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1999-2000) and Shadow Secretary of State for Deregulation (2004-2005). In the 1990s he campaigned widely to keep the pound, and wrote several books and articles explaining why the Euro would be wrong for the UK. (Our Currency, our country; Just Say No). John subsequently served as Chairman of the Economic Policy Review (2005-2010) undertaken by the Opposition. A copy of the report is available here. He has been Chairman of the Conservative Economic Affairs Committee since 2010. John stood for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1995 and again in 1997.

John was a fellow of All Souls from 1972 to 1987 , again from 2003 to 2005, and since 2007. He is currently a Visiting Professor for Middlesex University Business School and has published a number of books including ‘Superpower Struggles‘, on the European Union, China and the United States, ‘Just Say No‘ on why the UK should reject further European integration, and ‘Singing the Blues‘, his personal history of the Conservative Party throughout the last thirty years. His most recent publications are ‘I Want to Make a Difference, But I Don’t Like Politics‘, which examines the reason for the decline in membership of political parties and those voting in local and General Elections, and After the Credit Crunch: No More Boom and Bust, which considers the reasons behind the global recession and why Britain has been hit especially hard. John is a frequent commentator in the media and is a keen cricketer and water sports enthusiast, and supports a number of different charities. He is an Ambassador for the Variety Club of Great Britain.
Shalini Agarwal
Partner, InSe Legal

Anand P. Raman
Editor-at-Large, Harvard Business Review

Anand P. Raman is an Editor at Large at the Harvard Business Review Group, based in Boston. In addition to his responsibilities as a senior editor, which included overseeing The Globe section between 2010 and 2014, he helps manage HBR Group’s globalization efforts and oversees its dozenplus global editions. An economist by training and a management journalist by profession, Anand’s areas of interest include strategy, especially globalization strategy; manufacturing, quality, and supply chain management; family business; innovation, especially reverse innovation; and the history and future of management ideas. In terms of geography, his focus is on the BRICS and CIVET nations. Anand has been a business journalist for 30 years, and has headed newspapers, business magazines, and Web-based media operations. In another life, Anand was the Editor of BUSINESS TODAY, India’s leading business magazine, for a decade, and later, the COO of a dotcom in the media industry, India Today Group Online. In 1992, he received India’s Sanskriti Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism. An alumnus of Harvard Business School, Anand joined the Harvard Business Review in July 2001. At the Review, he has helped create a section on globalization, new product concepts, collections of articles on globalization, supply chain management, sales, and China, and so on. Anand has so far edited five McKinsey Award-winning articles. Anand spearheaded HBP’s entry into South Asia and helped develop a globalization strategy, which led to the creation of its first overseas subsidiary. He is a member of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals. Anand has presented papers at the annual meetings of the Strategic Management Society and the Society for Operations & Production Management, and has spoken at numerous conferences, particularly WEF events. He has co-authored HBR articles (such as Don’t Integrate Your Acquisitions, Partner with Them), edited a HBR Press book (Conquering the Chaos, May 2013), and a co-authored paper on China’s cross-border M&A was published in The Competitive Advantage of Emerging Market Multinationals (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Anand lives in Cambridge, MA, with his wife, Manjari, who works at Harvard Business School.
SV Rangan
Director, IFG Worldwide
Prof Rod Coombs
Deputy President, Manchester University
Joanna Newman
Director, International, Universities UK

Dr Anil Seal
Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. Personal tutor to Prince Charles, Rajiv Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi
Mihir Bose
BBC Broadcaster

Mihir Bose is an award winning journalist and author. He writes a weekly “Big Sports Interview” for the London Evening Standard, and also writes and broadcasts on social and historical issues as well as sport for a range of outlets including the BBC, the Financial Times and the Independent. His latest books areGame Changer: How the English Premier League Came to Dominate the World and The Spirit of the Game: How Sport Made the Modern World. He was the BBC’s first Sports Editor where his job involved investigating and analysing sports stories. His major scoops included revealing the cost of the Olympics, the Premier League plans for the 39th game and Joe Calzaghe’s decision to retire. He covered all BBC outlets including the flagship Ten O’Clock News, the Today programme, Five Live and the website. Before joining the BBC, he was the chief sports news correspondent for the Daily Telegraph for 12 years where he created an innovative weekly column, Inside Sport. He also wrote on the editorial pages on such subjects as race, immigration, and other social and cultural issues. He has written for nearly all the major UK newspapers, editing the Inside Track column of the Sunday Times and several business publications. He has presented programmes for radio and television, and written 26 books including the first history of Bollywood. He has won several awards: business columnist of the year, sports news reporter of the year, sports story of the year and Silver Jubilee Literary award for his History of Indian Cricket. He was consulted by government ministers in the run-up to London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and served on the Budd Committee which provided the basis for the new UK gambling legislation. He is a trustee of Sporting Equals, on the Council of the National Army Museum, and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. In September 2012, Loughborough University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate for outstanding contribution to journalism and the promotion of equality. Mihir lives in west London with his wife, Caroline Cecil, who runs a financial PR consultancy. He has a daughter, Indira. Twitter: @mihirbose
David Landsman
Executive Director, TATA Europe

David Landsman is Executive Director of Tata Limited and representative of the Tata group in Europe. Globally, the group’s combined annual revenues are in excess of $100billion, with around $40billion generated in Europe. Tata Limited’s role includes supporting the group and its independently-operated companies in Europe across a range of activities, including business development, corporate affairs, brand building, corporate responsibility and support services. David also chairs the Tata Network Forum (Europe) which brings together the expertise, experience and best practice of the companies, including global brands such as Jaguar and Land Rover, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages and Taj Hotels. Twitter: @TataEurope and @David_Landsman
Ashish Chauhan
CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange

Lord Ajay Kakkar
Prof of Surgery, University College London. UK Business Ambassador

Rt.Hon.Professor the Lord Kakkar PC BSc MBBS MA (Oxf) PhD FRCSFRCP, Professor the Lord Kakkar is Professor of Surgery, University College London; Chairman of University College London Partners Academic Health Science Partnership; and Director of the Thrombosis Research Institute, London, England.

He completed his medical degree at King’s College Hospital London and received his PhDfromImperialCollegeLondon. Hisresearchinterestsareinthepreventionand treatment of venous and arterial thrombosis.

Lord Kakkar was created a Life Peer in 2010 and sits on the cross benches of the House of Lords. He is Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission and UK Business Ambassador for Healthcare and Life Sciences.

Lord Kakkar was appointed a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in December 2014.
David Taylor
Prof of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, University College London
Vinay Nair
Head of International Business Development, Acumen Fund
Christopher Thornham
Partner, Taylor Wessing

Chris Thornham helps clients on patent matters across the full range of technologies, advising on freedom to operate, product launch, Patent Box tax matters and patent licensing and litigation. Chris seeks to find commercial solutions for his clients outside of court, but has also acted in over 20 English patent trials and appeals. Chris graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Natural Sciences before qualifying and practising as a lawyer, including some experience working in the US. Chris speaks and writes regularly on patent issues and is recommended for his patent expertise in various legal directories.

Jaideep Prabhu
Nehru Professor of Indian Business, Cambridge University

Jaideep Prabhu is Professor of Marketing and Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has published in leading academic journals and his work has been profiled by the BBC, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Financial Times, Le Monde, The New York Times, and The Times. He has consulted with or taught executives from Bertelsmann, Barclays, BP, BT, GE, the UK Government, IBM, ING Bank, the NHS, Nokia, Philips, Roche, Shell, Siemens, Vodafone and Xerox, among others. He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, described by The Economist as “the most comprehensive book yet” on the subject of frugal innovation. His most recent book, Frugal Innovation, was published in February 2015. Twitter: @JaideepPrabhu
Rajesh Bhatt
General Manager, TATA Europe
Andreas Raptopoulous
CEO, Matternet Inc
Christian Finn
Director, Murgitroyd & Co

Guillaume de Foucault
VP EMEA, Godiva
Katharina Flohr
Managing and Creative Director, Faberge´
Marek Reichman
Director of Design, Aston Martin
Rani Singh
BBC Broadcaster

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