January 21-23, 2018 – New Delhi, India Welcome

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Every effort has been made to ensure that this program is free from error or omissions. However, there may be modifications of participants, speakers and the program between publication and the Dialogue. Welcome from the Co-Chairs It is our pleasure to welcome you to the third annual Australia India Leadership Dialogue in New Delhi in January 2018.

The centre of the world’s economic Our economic and strategic interests and political gravity is shifting are converging strongly. India’s rapid ever further towards the Indo- economic growth and its burgeoning Pacific region. As it does so, new demand for energy, resources and opportunities are being identified – education have made it one of and with them, new challenges. Australia’s largest export markets. Today, Indians are welcomed as the Our countries, which face each largest national group among skilled other across the Indian Ocean, are migrants to Australia. ideally placed to develop a close, comprehensive partnership to take Beyond our joint economic interests, advantage of those opportunities and our countries have a shared strategic to confront those challenges. interest in ensuring a balance in the Indo-Pacific so that the region is not Few countries in the Indo-Pacific dominated by any one hegemonic have more in common than India power. This shared interest in regional and Australia. We speak the same security and stability is fundamental to language. We respect the same system our joint economic interests. of law. We are both multicultural, federal democracies. We even follow the same sports. Relations between India and Through the Dialogue, we seek to build Australia have deepened dramatically deeper co-operation, closer friendships over recent years. and stronger relationships based on trust between leaders in government, The Australia India Leadership business and civil society from Dialogue brings together senior leaders India and Australia. We will do this from our nation’s government, business through the open discussion, which and civil society. We will be discussing will now follow, and by identifying the mutual interests that lie at the very new ways and new opportunities to heart of our relationship – economic work together in coming years. We are priorities such as energy, education delighted to host you in New Delhi, and skills, health, agriculture and and we look forward to working with agro-processing, and infrastructure; you all for the mutual benefit of our and our converging geostrategic and two great nations. security interests. Ross Fitzgerald and Amitabh Mattoo Co-Chairs, Australia India Leadership Dialogue

Program

Program Australia India Leadership Dialogue 2018 Program

Monday 22 January 2018: Dialogue Discussions

8.45 am - 9.00 am Arrival of Guests Diwan-I-Am Room Lower Lobby Taj Mahal Hotel 9.00 am - 9.20 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks Ross Fitzgerald Co-Chair, Australia India Leadership Dialogue Amitabh Mattoo Co-Chair, Australia India Leadership Dialogue Craig Jeffrey Director and CEO, Australia India Institute

9.20 am - 9.50 am Special Remarks on Behalf of Delegations Hon David Littleproud Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Government of Australia Hardeep Singh Puri Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Government of India James McGrath Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister and Assistant Minister for Regulatory Reform Government of Australia Shashi Tharoor MP for Thiruvananthapuram, Author and Chairman of the DO NOT PRINT Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs Penny Wong Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Government of Australia 9.50 am - 11.00 am Report on Australia’s India Economic Strategy Peter Varghese Chancellor, University of Queensland Rajiv Kumar Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog - National Institution for Transforming India Discussion Moderated by Co-Chairs

11.00 am - 11.10 am Break

11.10 am - 12.15 pm Increasing Australia India Economic Cooperation Discussion Moderated by Co-Chairs

12.15 pm - 1.15 pm Lunch Break

1.15 pm - 3.00 pm Evolving Security Architecture in the Region Discussion Moderated by Co-Chairs

3.00 pm - 3.30 pm Break

3.30 pm - 4.15 pm Domestic Politics and Bilateral Opportunities Discussion Moderated by Co-Chairs 4.15 pm - 5.00 pm Closing Session: Summary of Key Points and Next Steps Closing Remarks: Mr Ajay Gondane Indian High Commissioner to Australia Ms Harinder Sidhu Australian High Commissioner to India Discussion Moderated by Co-Chairs

5.00 pm End of Formal Dialogue Discussions 2018

Monday 22 January 2018: Closing Reception

7.30 – 9.00 pm Hosted by: The Hon Harinder Sidhu Residence of the High Australian High Commissioner to India Commissioner of Australia to India 1/50 G Shantipath Chanakyapuri New Delhi 110021

Discussion Papers

Discussion Papers Knowledge: Increasing Engagement with India’s Higher Education, and Skill Development Sectors

Higher education represents a key Indian nationals comprise the second point of engagement for Australian and largest international higher education Indian higher education institutions, student group in Australia totalling both in terms of international mobility, nearly 45,000 in 2016. This market is research collaborations, and joint of particular interest, as Australia’s PhD programs. There is potential export education sector seeks to reduce for Australian VET providers and reliance on China. India’s large youth enterprises operating in India to population are ambitious. India’s collaborate with Indian partners outbound higher education student to pursue the Skill India agenda. population is projected to continue Opportunities appear greatest in niche growing despite the in-country industry sectors outside the current system burgeoning in recent years. capacity of India’s established skills Opportunities for higher education system. in India are constrained by persistent unmet demand and fierce competition Growing engagement with India’s for admission to elite institutions. The higher education system emergence of India’s elite independent Indian higher education institutions school sector, with large numbers of are increasingly engaged in graduates strongly motivated to study internationalisation efforts. They are abroad, will also contribute to outward partnering with universities in the student mobility. United Kingdom, North America, In addition to Australia’s longstanding Europe, Japan, Korea and China. While international education and diaspora legislation enabling foreign providers ties with India, Australian universities to establish stand-alone universities are turning to India for academic in India stalled, the Government of partnerships. This trend mirrors a India’s support for higher education global shift from a preoccupation with internationalisation has been international education to broader demonstrated in the new National forms of bilateral engagement. The DO NOT PRINT Education Policy. Support is evident number of Australian universities for faculty exchanges, transnational partnering with Indian higher education involving Indian partners, education institutions is growing faster and collaborative research ventures, than any other country. Australian for example in engineering and university’s Indian partners are technology, medicine, agriculture, law, concentrated in Delhi, the western and management. state of Maharashtra, and the southern is urgent. Coupled with India’s states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka aspirations to operate as the global that accommodate India’s largest cities. skills capital, foreign governments and VET providers have actively been Skill development: opportunities encouraged to engage with this agenda. for engagement The Government of India is actively In recent years, the Government of pursuing foreign partners, with the India has adopted a more co-ordinated NSDC prioritising international approach to skill development under collaborations in targeted industry the Ministry of Skill Development sectors (i.e., aviation, ports, mining, and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) smart cities, agriculture). Multinational and associated authorities such as agencies are actively engaged (e.g., the National Skill Development World Bank, Asian Development Corporation (NSDC). At state/union Bank, UNESCO, European Union). territory level, there have also been Companies from the United States, endeavours to adopt a more co- Japan, South Korea, China, Germany ordinated approach. Unlike the high and France with operations in India unmet demand that characterises are dominant players in establishing India’s higher education system, skill development partnerships with there are major challenges for India’s Indian institutions in engineering and skills system in recruiting students technology, healthcare/life science and and securing skilled graduates’ food processing sectors. This includes employment. These challenges relate foreign companies such as Ford, Toyota, to social factors which constrain Bosch, Samsung and Huawei. Unlike student participation and progression, other Asian markets, there are few poor labour market outcomes, a large examples of foreign VET providers with informal sector, and a wage structure a strong presence in India. The United that frequently fails to adequately Kingdom’s Manipal City and Guilds reward skilled workers. represents a leading notable exception. The Skill India campaign has Australian VET providers have witnessed a consolidation of India’s made tentative forays into the skills system architecture (e.g., Indian skill development markets, Sector Skill Councils, national including several TAFE colleges (e.g., occupational standards, qualifications Kangan Institute), the Australian packs, national skills qualifications Retail College, UDAY (AVTEG framework), strengthening of the Private Limited), AAMC Training public skills system, and investment Group and the Queensland Skills & in public-private partnerships to Education Consortium Australia. rapidly expand skill development and Despite India’s large targets, providers employment placement services. The have faced challenges including need to leverage India’s demographic identifying niche markets, recruiting dividend means that this agenda students, and scalability/quality (i.e., 3. Using trusted partnerships with operating in a high volume, low cost elite institutions to build links environment). There appears to be with universities, institutions and only limited interest in securing full colleges in provincial India. This Australian qualifications, other than could occur through Australian for migration purposes (e.g., migration universities and their elite Indian for employment in Gulf countries). counterparts collaborating in Despite these challenges, Australia’s the provision of scholarships, VET system remains well regarded, mobility programmes, and research particularly with respect to its breadth opportunities. of curriculum, high level of industry Skill development: While the Skill engagement, integration of on- and India agenda aims to provide skill off-the-job training, competency- development and entrepreneurship based approach, and high trainer and training and job placement for vast assessor standards. numbers of Indian nationals, foreign Key issues to be addressed in enhancing involvement appears best placed in bilateral education engagement three areas: Higher education: Australian 1. As India already has an established universities are well placed to position skills system, the best opportunities themselves as a bilateral or multilateral for Australian VET providers appear partner for India’s higher education to be in niche industry sectors where institutions. Increasing Australia’s India does not yet have the capacity engagement requires addressing three to meet demand. key challenges: 2. Australian companies operating 1. Locating specialist, long term in India are well placed to deliver partners within India’s large and company-specific vocational complex higher education system. training, either with an Indian partner, or Australian VET provider. 2. Consolidating existing and building new mutually beneficial, sustainable 3. There appear to be opportunities partnerships with leading autonomous for value-added services where research institutions, institutions Australian VET systems or of national importance, central providers hold expertise (e.g., universities, deemed universities (both integration of on- and off-the-job public and private) and public state training, work placement co- universities. These collaborations ordination, trainer and assessor would focus on transnational education training, and professional principally involving joint PhD development for skills institute programs and research collaborations governing bodies, management, in areas of mutual interest in both and administrators). STEM and HASS disciplines. Health

The health sector has the potential to These developments, combined with lead to more vibrant future engagement increased consumer spending, have between Australia and India. While led to projections that the Indian both countries are at different stages healthcare market could almost double of their socioeconomic development in size over the next three years. and epidemiologic transitions, there Yet, India also faces a number of is increasing convergence in their challenges in getting its health disease trends, for example, the care system to an international rapidly increasing disease burden standard. A major challenge is that, associated with lifestyle-related chronic despite that fact that 70% of India’s conditions, including heart disease, population resides in rural areas, its diabetes and cancers. There are also health facilities are overwhelmingly many complementaries between the concentrated in India’s metropolitan Australian and Indian health sectors, cities. Improving access to services in with areas of strength in Australia regional and remote locations – and matching areas of need in India and the quality of those services – is a vice versa. major priority which the Government India has plans to rapidly expand its of India is trying to address through capacity for providing health care to its National Health Mission. An its very large and diverse population. underdeveloped and underfunded Its new National Health Policy (2017) primary health care and public health is ambitious in seeking to universalise system reduces the ability to provide access to basic healthcare by making affordable and appropriate health care essential drugs and basic health services to a large proportion of the population. free at public hospitals. The NITI Aayog The private health care system is also Performance on Health Outcomes largely under-regulated, resulting in Index will incentivise states to meet practices such as over prescribing of health outcomes and will support the medications, unnecessary diagnostic implementation of the policy. There tests and treatments. When combined are also new measures to improve with a heavy reliance on private and prevention and public health, including for-profit healthcare (67% of the total significantly improved tobacco controls. health spend), and very low levels of The rollout of the ‘Aadhar’ unique public health funding as a percentage identifier scheme also introduces of GDP, it is not surprising that potential for exciting innovations in between 30-55 million people are health service delivery in India and pushed into poverty each year from there will also important lessons for their healthcare expenditure. Australia to learn from this experience. There has been a recent focus by the There is great potential to leverage Government of India on disability these comparative advantages of and mental health as demonstrated by the Australian healthcare system to two Acts of Parliament and various support India’s needs. Yet, there are campaigns (e.g. Inclusive India). also some key areas in which Australia However, these services have not reached stands to learn from India’s health the poorest and most marginalised, system. India is a world-leader in where levels of disability are greatest. generic pharmacy, which Australia The provision of mental health services, may draw lessons from in order to including suicide prevention programs, lower costs of medications under its are still very under-developed. Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. India Australia’s health care system ranks has also innovated to reduce the costs of very highly according to most global traditionally expensive investigations, comparisons. Australians enjoy universal procedures and devices. India is also access to high quality healthcare, a very demonstrating how it is possible to use successful Pharmaceutical Benefits new mobile technologies to underpin Scheme and a diverse array of quality the delivery of public health programs health care providers in both the public and health care services. These are areas and private sectors. Innovative health where Australia can learn much from and social insurance models including India’s experience. Medicare and, more recently, the Successful Collaborations National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), underpin universal access. Australia and India already have a Australia has recently been working number of successful collaborations in with India and the Department for the health sector and related health care Empowerment of people with disabilities and public health research. India has to see how such approaches could be long looked to Australia for inspiration relevant for India. in its efforts at tobacco control, for example. The Australia-India Institute Australia also has a reputation for world Tobacco Control Taskforce has brought class health research and clinical trials together experts from India and and is able to conduct some clinical Australia to promote effective tobacco trials more quickly and cheaply than control around graphic health warnings competitor countries such as the US. It and plain packaging. also has world class systems for health surveillance and health data collection, There are also a number of successful which may be of great use in India in collaborations and exchanges between monitoring challenges such as antibiotic influential institutes in India and resistance. The state of Victoria is already Australia. These have facilitated a major exporter of health technologies student mobility and have also led to and services and the state government of research collaborations and outputs Victoria has undertaken policy measures which have been successfully translated to improve its export capacity. into health policy and health care delivery. For example, through the Australia and India have much to University of Melbourne – exemplified share in the health sector and there is by the recent ENCORE Program - clearly scope and much to gain from has developed productive research deepening the bilateral relationship in and training partnerships with health and related health research and AIIMS, CMC Vellore, Sree Chitra higher education programs. Tirunal Institute, the Public Health Foundation of India and the Catholic Pathways to Greater Engagement Health Association of India. Monash Key areas that should be prioritised University also collaborates extensively in order to improve Australia-India on India’s response to trauma with collaboration in the health sector include: AIIMS and Deakin has an active student recruitment and scholarship 1. Systems approach for rural program for Indian students. populations: Australia and India have similar issues in providing Another exciting area is the quality healthcare to rural areas. International Research Network for Engagement around effective Development of Antibiotic Peptides at primary health care strategies and the University of Melbourne. This major other health system innovation to Australia-India research collaboration provide care to rural areas. seeks to address the problem of antibiotic resistant pathogens – a 2. Focus on areas of joint interest: crucial area of concern for both Disability, for example, has been a Australia and India – and to develop a focus for the current Government new generation of antibiotics. in India. Australia is a world leader in disability inclusive development In April 2017, Prime Ministers Modi and financing of disability services. and Turnbull signed a Memorandum The Australian High Commission of Understanding to promote greater in New Delhi is currently running collaboration between Australia and a disability engagement program India in the health sector. The Health under the DFAT Development4all MoU identifies areas where Australia strategy. There have already been and India can cooperate, including: preliminary discussions involving communicable and non-communicable DFAT, University of Melbourne and diseases, digital health, mental health the Department of Empowerment and tobacco control. for People with Disability. 3. Focus on Education. India and Australia both have large education sectors. To date, relatively few Indian students have enrolled in medicine and other health degrees in Australia. This shows that despite the fact that Australian universities such as the University of Melbourne have long been world class providers of medical and other health education, their reputation in India has not yet been cemented. 4. Working to Scale. Australian exporters need to consider how they can deploy Australian health technology and expertise at a scale and price point that works for India. 5. Comprehensive Mapping. Although there is a basic understanding of the potential for a complementary relationship between Australia and India’s healthcare sectors, there remains a need for more detailed mapping of how Australia’s strengths in this sector can help to meet India’s most pressing needs and vice versa. 6. The role of mHealth and IT: India is a world leader in developing new technologies and Australia also has considerable experience in utilising IT solutions to improve health care delivery. However, both countries could learn a lot from each other about to do this more effectively and efficiently to improve population level health outcomes. Water Resources and Management

The Australian and Indian Opportunities for Cooperation in governments have recognised Water Management numerous pathways for cooperation on Several initiatives have recently been water management and water security. launched that demonstrate significant The opportunities for collaboration on collaboration, though substantial this issue are ample given the extensive scope remains for expanding the learning that both countries have opportunities at hand. experienced in response to significant water management challenges in the In 2016, the Australian Water Indo-Pacific. Partnership (AWP) received approval from the World Bank to provide Shared Water Management Concerns technical support to the India National Australia and India share many points Hydrology Project (INHP). The INHP of mutual interest in sound water aims to augment institutional and management. These include: technical capacity in the Indian water sector. Up to $1.15 Million of AWP • Managing dwindling water reserves funding will be spent over a period amid ever increasing water demands; of two years under the scheme. Such • Supplying ample water supplies collaborative efforts align with the to agricultural communities Department of Foreign Affairs and to safeguard food security and Trade’s (DFAT’s) focus on enhancing biosecurity; Australia’s assistance for water, • Meeting the requirements of sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). urban populations for sustained economic growth; Several government-assisted • Reducing the number of people organisations are actively involved suffering from impaired access to in expanding Australia-India water potable water; partnerships. With funding from the • Improving regional sanitation Australian Government’s Sustainable and hygiene metrics to safeguard Development Investment Portfolio public health; (SDIP), the Commonwealth Scientific • Leveraging new opportunities to and Industrial Research Organisation improve infrastructure available (CSIRO) is working nationally and through international financial internationally to inform strategies institutions and government- and policies to support effective sponsored ‘smart city’ initiatives. water management. The emphasis is on improving the livelihoods and UNSW’s Global Water Institute, wellbeing of people living in river based in Sydney, is a key member of basins of the Indo-Pacific. A recent the aforementioned Australian Water project has identified future challenges Partnership. The University of Adelaide’s and opportunities in India’s Brahmani Centre for Global Food and Resources Baitarni Basin. The project also is working with the Australian Centre established a partnership between for International Agricultural Research CSIRO and the Government of India. for a project on water management in India that focuses on irrigation districts With supplementary funding from in Bihar and Assam. The University SDIP, the International Centre of of Adelaide also recently completed a Excellence for Water Resources crowdfunding campaign that raised Management (ICE WaRM) has assisted $32,000 AUD for a pilot project that India’s central and state governments aims to install 1,000 low cost water to build capacity in water policy filtration technologies in Rajasthan. and water resource management. ICE WaRM has also worked with State-level collaborations are evidenced the Government of Rajasthan to in a “Sister State” agreement with help establish the Rajasthan Centre the governments of South Australia of Excellence on Water Resource and Rajasthan. The two states are Management (RACE WaRM) in Jaipur, working to provide technical support India. ICE WaRM has also received and resource sharing based on mutual SDIP funding to enhance gendered knowledge of water management in water management capacity and arid zones. Under the Sister State expertise. In 2018, ICE WaRM will agreement, the South Australian bring eight women from Rajasthan to government will also be offering 12 South Australia to demonstrate the water management fellowships that ways that the state has tackled the will place qualified water management region’s “wicked” water problems. experts from Rajasthan in South The program will be followed with a Australian research institutions. This reciprocal visit to Rajasthan of eight effort is additionally associated with South Australian women. a South Australia-India Engagement Strategy. Several South Australian The involvement of Australian water industry experts joined an AWP universities in the Indian water sector trade mission to India for the 3rd is also growing with support from state Water Innovation Summit of 2017. governments. RMIT, a university based in Melbourne, is leading an Australia- India collaboration to address water scarcity and to promote sustainable integrated water management practices. Key Issues to be addressed in 2018 • Improving Industry Networks and and Beyond Entrepreneurialism. While the state and federal efforts to enhance Several important factors need to be Australia-India water management addressed to continue Australia-India cooperation is promising, partnerships on water management in significant opportunities remain the coming years. These include: to connect entrepreneurs and • Strengthening the recognition businesses to advance private of Australian and Indian sector contributions to sustainable contributions. Since the regional water management. water market is highly competitive, • Expanding the Funding Base there is a need to further value for Sustained Collaborations. Australian and Indian water Wherever possible, there is scope management expertise and project to help Australia-India water collaborations. management partners to identify • Supporting WASH Innovations. and apply to funding opportunities Australia has specialist expertise with national and international in water supply and sanitation, and loans and grants. has developed innovative solutions to improve the safety of drinking water, which requires support to aid coordination, efficacy and deployment. Building Security Architecture in our Region

Over the last decade, Australia and Growing cooperation in defence and India have recognized each other security as important partners with many Defence and security cooperation shared interests in the security of the between India and Australia has been Indo-Pacific. The two countries now growing in recent years, although is need to translate this into practical still far from reaching its full potential. cooperation, including working The two countries have entered into together to build new security several security agreements, including architecture in the region. the 2014 Framework for Security Shared security interests Cooperation which is intended to create a framework for cooperation to Australia and India have many shared be pursued in specified areas. security interests, including: There are numerous defence and • Concerns about maintenance of security dialogues held at official and international norms, including unofficial levels. The regular trilateral freedom of navigation and overflight. dialogue among Australian, Indian and • Shared interests in security of sea Japanese foreign secretaries has been lines of communication across the particularly successful in developing Indo-Pacific. a shared understanding of regional • A mutual recognition of the value security challenges. A quadrilateral of cooperation in Indian Ocean dialogue among Australia, India, the maritime security. United States and Japan (known as the • Building institutions and a sense of ‘Quad’) has also been revived among regionalism in the Indian Ocean. officials from the four countries. This • Shared interests in peace and was initially proposed in 2007, but did political stability in Southeast Asia. not proceed in the face of objections • Opposition to violent extremism. from China. The Indian and Australian navies Building security architecture in the have been at the forefront of bilateral Indian Ocean region defence cooperation. The AUSINDEX One of the big challenges for the bilateral naval exercises, first held Australia-India relationship is to in the Bay of Bengal in 2015, have work together to build security norms now become a focus of the naval and institutions in the Indian Ocean. relationship. AUSINDEX 2017 was held In the Pacific Ocean there are many off Western Australia in June with a groupings and forums to address focus on anti-submarine warfare, with security issues, but there is very little the third iteration of the exercises due so-called ‘security architecture’ in the to be held in 2019 in the Bay of Bengal. Indian Ocean. Regional institutions in There is also developing cooperation the Indian Ocean are relatively weak and between the Australian and Indian there is currently little regional identity. armies and air forces. The two main groupings in the India and Australia also have strong Indian Ocean are the Indian Ocean shared interests in improving Rim Association (IORA) and Indian maritime domain awareness. The Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS). huge size of the Indian Ocean means Over the last decade, Australia and that surveillance of this space will India have worked together to make require cooperation between Australia, these groupings more effective and and India and other partners. The substantive. There has been some signing of a ‘white shipping’ agreement progress, including the holding of between Australia and India to share an Indian Ocean Leaders Summit information on commercial shipping meeting in Jakarta in February 2017. (and similar agreement between India This Summit had several important and the United States) may be a step outcomes, including an Indian Ocean towards broader information sharing Concord and Action Plan and the arrangements. Information sharing IORA Declaration on Preventing may potentially also be bolstered by and Countering Terrorism and sharing of facilities, and there is scope Violent Extremism. for Australia and India to enter into logistics agreements in the nature Regional states are now looking to of the India-US Logistics Exchange countries like Australia and India Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA). to take leadership in building a new Indian Ocean security architecture. Australia and India should consider potentially working together and with other interested countries to develop agreed ‘rules of the road’ for all countries that use the Indian Ocean. It is important that these structures be put in place now, before the Indian Ocean becomes an arena for strategic competition. Key issues to be addressed in a new architecture in the Indian Ocean Any new security arrangements in the Indian Ocean need to cover several important areas: • Freedom of navigation: A renewed regional commitment to maintaining international norms on freedom of navigation and overflight in the Indian Ocean. • Reduction of strategic competition: Exploring ways of reducing strategic competition involving extra- regional powers. • Transnational security issues: Practical cooperation in addressing maritime security issues that have a particular impact on Indian Ocean states, and particularly the smaller island states. These include piracy, illegal fishing and smuggling of drugs, people and arms. • Capacity building: Building capacity among Indian Ocean states to improve their ability to provide for maritime security in their own waters. As leading Indian Ocean states, India and Australia should take the lead in developing institutions and norms that reflect the wishes and requirements of the region. Australia-India Relations: Opportunities and Challenges

For much of the post 1947 period provide very considerable potential. Australia and India were estranged Strategic affairs have also played a role from one another. Cold War divisions with a more ambitious India seen as an weighed heavily for much of that time important potential partner to stabilise but were by no means the only reason for the Indo-Pacific region during a time the distance between Canberra and New of power transition and incipient great Delhi. Differences on apartheid, nuclear power rivalry. India and Australia have weapons, economic governance and taken on an increasingly similar outlook Australia’s ties with Washington were to the region. among the many issues that kept the two Australia and India now formally regard countries apart. one another as strategic partners, and Over the past decade, however, have an array of mechanisms with Australia and India have moved from which to develop their relationship. estrangement to engagement. In These include annual Foreign Ministers’ particular, Canberra has been much Framework Dialogue, the Australia- more assiduous in courting New Delhi India Joint Ministerial Commission than previously and its new-found focusing on trade policy, a 2+2 annual enthusiasm for India has a strong meeting of foreign and defence ministers bipartisan basis. In the late period of his to advance security cooperation as well prime ministership, John Howard began as sectoral working groups on education, this movement which was carried on energy among others. A strong platform by the ALP governments of Rudd and to develop the bilateral relationship has Gillard that came after. Famously Julia been established, habits of cooperation Gillard faced down opponents in the have been formed and the challenge now Labor party to allow Australia to export is to build on this foundation to realize uranium to the republic. The dual state the potential of the relationship. visits in 2014, with PM Abbott visiting Even though two-way trade and India and PM Modi coming to Australia investment has grown considerably in symbolised the new closeness of ties. recent years there is still a very long way The engagement of India has been to go to improve economic ties between driven by both economic and strategic the two countries. Ultimately, trade is a interests. India is a huge and rapidly market driven process but governments growing market – the fastest growing can help. A trade agreement is in large economy in the world in recent negotiation but the slow pace of its years – and trade complementarities progress is discouraging and there is a place for business leaders on both sides In the post 1945 world the creation to put pressure on their political leaders and leadership of major international to conclude a deal that would go a long institutions came from the North way to boosting trading links that have Atlantic world and in particular from plateaued in recent years. Meanwhile, the United States. Plainly that leadership governments could also work on trade is not what it once was and as the world facilitation measures. While not as high becomes more centred around Asia, profile as tariff cutting agreements, Australia and India have the opportunity measures to improve ‘behind the border’ to lead and reform institutional issues relating to customs, regulation architecture to better suit this new world and standardisation can have significant and to advance their shared interests positive effects and not have the same and values. political sensitivities are large scale trade Even though considerable progress deals. Awareness of the possibilities of has been made in the Australia-India trade and investment opportunities in relationship, engagement can be India is not widespread in Australia fitful and uneven. For example, after and improved understanding of the a successful prime ministerial visit opportunities and help in realizing them in April, the Australian government is a clear priority. changed the 457 visa program creating As the Australian government’s recently considerable ill-will in India. Equally, released Foreign Policy White Paper for all the talk of shared interests and makes clear, the international order values, the convergence is not always as is experiencing significant challenge clear as many assume and there remain with China and other emerging powers many issues on which the two do not threatening the existing rules of the always see eye to eye. Even though game and the underlying liberal values India is concerned about China and its of the system. India and Australia have behaviour, it cannot be assumed that both an interest in and a capacity to Australia and India will have identical collaborate to buttress the order from policies toward Beijing. Earlier in the challenge. It is not just a shared interest year Delhi refused to allow Australian in freedom of navigation or a stable observers to a military exercise involving balance of power that should motivate Japan, the US and India. This showed their collaborative work. They share how India insists on being master liberal and democratic values and should of its own fate in relation to Beijing. be driven to protect and defend those at Finally, India will always matter more to a time when those ideas face significant Australia that Australia will to India. headwind. David Brewster’s primer for The asymmetries are only going to this Dialogue also details the important get more obvious and thus a premium ways in which security collaboration can should be put on advancing ties as swiftly be advanced. as possible. The Australia India Institute would like to thank and acknowledge the following people for their time and assistance in preparing the discussion papers for key sectors in the Australia India economic relationship:

Water Resources and Management Evolving Security Architecture in Dr Georgina Drew the Region Senior Lecturer Dr David Brewster School of Social Sciences National Security College Faculty of Arts Australian National University University of Adelaide Domestic Politics and Bi-Lateral Knowledge: Increasing Engagement Opportunities with India’s Higher Education and Professor Nick Bisley Skills Development Sectors Executive Director Ms Brigid Freeman La Trobe Asia Research Associate La Trobe University Australia India Institute University of Melbourne Health Professor Brian Oldenburg Chair of Noncommunicable Disease Control & Director, Centre for Health Equity Melbourne School of Population & Global Health University of Melbourne Delegates & Delegates & Observers Observers DELEGATES Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources Ms Frances Adamson State Government of Victoria Secretary The Honourable Chris Bowen MP Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Shadow Treasurer Government of Australia Australian Labor Party Mr Imran Reza Ansari Dr Virander Singh Chauhan Minister for Information Technology, Chairman Technical Education and Youth Services University Grants Commission & Sport Jammu and Kashmir Government Dr Swapan Dasgupta MP Presidential Nominee for the Rajya Sabha Mr Pravir Arora Senior Journalist and Political Chief Marketing Officer Commentator ApTech Ltd Professor Glyn Davis AC Professor Robin Batterham Vice-Chancellor Kernot Professor of Engineering, The University of Melbourne Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne; Member, Professor Jane Den Hollander Australia India Council; Vice-Chancellor Chair of the Advisory Panel of the Deakin University Australia India Strategic Research Fund, Mr Shaurya Doval Australia India Council Board of Directors DO NOT PRINT Mr Pratap Bhanu Mehta India Foundation Vice Chancellor Mr Ross Fitzgerald Ashoka University Co-Chair Mr Richard Bolt Australia India Leadership Dialogue Secretary Professor Dawn Freshwater Mr Robert Johanson Vice-Chancellor Chairman The University of Western Australia Australia India Institute Professor Margaret Gardner Mr Rohit Kansal Vice-Chancellor and President Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Monash University’ Government Former Chief of Staff - Mining and Dr Arunabha Ghosh Renewable Energy CEO Council on Energy, Environment and Water Mr Jayant Krishna CEEW India Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Dr Ajay M Gondane National Skills Development Corporation Indian High Commissioner to Australia NSDC India Mr Allan Gyngell Mr Rajiv Kumar National President Australian Institute Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog of International Affairs; National Institution for Transforming India Honorary Professor in the Australian National University’s College of Asia Mr Vinay Kumar and the Pacific Joint Secretary (South) Ministry of External Affairs MEA Professor Peter Høj Government of India Vice-Chancellor and President The University of Queensland Mr Upendra Kushwaha Minister of State for Human Resource Mr Jeyakumar Janakaraj Development CEO and Country Head Government of India Adani Australia Professor Sharon Lewin Professor Craig Jeffrey Director CEO & Director Doherty Institute Australia India Institute Hon David Littleproud Mr Hardeep Singh Puri Minister for Agriculture and Minister of State (Independent Charge) Water Resources Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Government of Australia Mr Girish Ramachandran Mr Sajad Lone President Asia Pacific Minister for Social Welfare, Tata Consultancy Services Science & Technology Mr Jang Bahadur Sangha Jammu & Kashmir Government Managing Director Professor Amitabh Mattoo Sangha Group Honorary Director, Australia India Lt. Gen (Retd) Ravi Sawhney Institute @ Delhi and Co-Chair, Dean - Centre for Defence Studies Australia India Leadership Dialogue Vivekananda International Foundation Ms Sheba Nandkeolyar Mr Ashvini Shekhar National Chair Managing Director Australia India Business Council Global Pacific Nominees Pty Ltd Board Member, Australia India Council Mr Greg Sheridan AO Senator the Hon James McGrath Foreign Editor Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister The Australian Assistant Minister for Regulatory Reform LNP Senator for Queensland Her Excellency Harinder Sidhu Government of Australia High Commissioner of Australia to India Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ambassador Gopalaswami Parthasarathy Government of Australia Indian Diplomat and Author Senator the Hon. Lisa Singh Professor Ila Patnaik Australian Senate for Tasmania National Institute of Public Finance Australian Labor Party and Policy Mr Harsha Vardana Singh Mr Peter Varghese AO Executive Director Chancellor Brookings India The University of Queensland Dr Shubnum Singh Ambassador Anil Wadhwa Dean Education MIHER (Max Institute Former Senior Diplomat of Health Education and Research) Government of India Dr Shashi Tharoor Senator the Hon Penny Wong Member of Parliament for Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs; Thiruvananthapuram, Author and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Australian Labor Party Committee on External Affairs Ms Vicki Thomson Chief Executive Group of Eight Universities Professor Yogesh Tyagi Vice Chancellor The University of Delhi Mr Shankar Vanavarayar Executive Director Kumaraguru College of Technology Mr Ram Madhav Varanasi Board of Directors India Foundation OBSERVERS Dr Amanda Gilbertson Lecturer in Youth & Contemporary India Dr Karen Barker Australia India Institute Executive Manager and Senior Advisor Dr Meenakshi Gopinath Engagement Founder & Director Women in Security, Australia India Institute Conflict Management and Peace Mr Matthew Brown (WISCOMP) Deputy Chief Executive Mr Alan Griffin Group of Eight Universities Australia Former Member of Parliament Dr Alexander Davis Government of Australia New Generation Network Scholar Dr Nathan Grills Australia India Institute / La Trobe Nossal Institute for Global Health University The University of Melbourne Professor Karen Day Mr Tony Huber Dean, Faculty of Science Australian Consul General, Mumbai The University of Melbourne Mr Rohit Manchanda Ms Fiona Docherty Commissioner Trade and Investment India Vice-President for External Relations NSW Department of Industry University of New South Wales (UNSW) Ms Zoe McKenzie Professor Simon Evans Principal Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) Trade and Investment Advisory Academic & International, Chancellery The University of Melbourne Mr Vinod Mirchandani Deputy Director Ms Brigid Freeman Australia India Institute @ Delhi Research Associate Australia India Institute Mr Ameet Nivsarkar Ms Sujata Sudarshan Vice President and Global Head of Regional Director, International Corporate Affairs Department (ASEAN and ANZ Desks) Tata Consultancy Services CII Confederation of Indian Industry Professor Brian Oldenburg Mr Arjun Surapaneni Chair of Noncommunicable Disease Control CEO & Director, Centre for Health Equity Victoria Institute of Technology Melbourne School of Population & Global Dr Mark Vicol Health New Generation Network Scholar University of Melbourne Australia India Institute / University Ms Ravneet Pawha of Sydney Associate Vice President, Global and Ms Michelle Wade Executive Director Asia Executive Director South Asia Deakin University Victoria Government Business Office Mr Harish Rao Bangalore Global Head – Business Development Mr Iain Watt Sundaram Business Services Pro Vice Chancellor (International) Mr Darren Rudd University of Western Australia Head of Corporate Affairs Australia Mrs Ameeta Wattal and New Zealand Principal Tata Consultancy Services Springdales School, New Delhi Dr Indu Shahani Ms Wendy Were President and Chair DO NOT PRINT Executive Director of Strategic The Indian School of Management & Development and Advocacy Entrepreneurship (ISME) Australian Council for the Arts Mr Anil Snehi Vice President Australia and New Zealand Tata Consultancy Services DELEGATES OBSERVERS

Mr Deepak Amitabh Ms Lyndal Corbett Chairman and Managing Director A/g Counsellor (Education and PTC India Research) Australian High Commission Delhi Mr MV Rajiv Gowda Member of Parliament Mr Vivekanand Jha Executive Director Mr Derek O Brien The George Institute for Global Health Member of Parliament India Rajya Sabha Ms Joslyn Ma Mr Daryl Quinlivan Australian Government New Colombo Secretary Plan Scholar 2018 Department of Agriculture Victorian Student of the Year and Water Resources Internationalisation 2015 Government of Australia Professor Parikshat Singh Manhas Director - School of Hospitality & Tourism Management Professor - The Business School Coordinator - Global Understanding Course University of Jammu, India Professor Kadambot Siddique Hackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and Director / Professor The UWA Institute of Agriculture University of Western Australia Bios Bios Delegates

DO NOT PRINT Ms Frances Adamson Secretary Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Government of Australia

Frances Adamson has led the She was Chief of Staff to the Minister Department of Foreign Affairs and for Foreign Affairs and then the Trade as Secretary since 25 August 2016. Minister for Defence from 2009 to 2010. Prior to her appointment as Secretary, Ms Adamson is President of the Ms Adamson was International Adviser Institute of Public Administration to the Prime Minister the Hon Malcolm Australia ACT Division. She is a Turnbull MP from November 2015. member of the Efic Board, the Advisory Board of the Australian National From 2011 to 2015, Ms Adamson was University’s National Security College Ambassador to the People’s Republic and the Asia Society Australia Advisory of China. She served in the Australian Council. Ms Adamson is a Special Consulate-General in Hong Kong Adviser to the Male Champions in the late 1980s during the early of Change and a member of Chief years of China’s reform and opening. Executive Women. She was awarded a From 2001 to 2005, she was seconded Sir James Wolfensohn Public Service as Representative to the Australian Scholarship in 2015. Commerce and Industry Office in Taipei. Ms Adamson has a Bachelor of Ms Adamson has twice served in Economics from the University of the Australian High Commission in Adelaide and was a recipient of a 2014 London, as Deputy High Commissioner Distinguished Alumni Award. She from 2005 to 2008 and as Political joined the then Department of Foreign Counsellor from 1993 to 1997. Affairs in 1985. She is married with four children. Mr Imran Reza Ansari Minister for Information Technology, Technical Education and Youth Services & Sports Jammu and Kashmir Government

Molvi Imran Reza Ansari is from the As Minister for Information Technology, State of Jammu & Kashmir, India. He Technical Education and Youth Services did his schooling from the Tyndale & Sports, Molvi Ansari has a number Biscoe missionary School, Srinagar, of firsts to his credit. He has introduced Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India the concept of e-governance in the and graduation & post graduation in State, is mentoring the youth of the Political Science from the University Jammu and Kashmir State in taking up of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in sports as a profession and is guiding his the year 1997. In the year 1998, Molvi department in customizing (to the local Ansari proceeded to Syria for six years needs) and implementing the national for pursuing Diploma in Arabic & Skill Development Programme of the Arabian languages and in the year 2002, government of India with the objective he went to Iran for a course in theology of job creation and addressing the and comparative religions. challenging issue of employability in the State of Jammu & Kashmir. Molvi Ansari has a rich religious and socio- political background. His grand -father and father were the spiritual leaders of the shia community of Jammu and Kashmir State and Molvi Ansari has inherited the legacy of his forefathers. Molvi Ansari was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir State from Pattan Constituency in north Kashmir in the year 2014 after which he went on to become a Cabinet Minister in the State government. Mr Pravir Arora Chief Marketing Officer ApTech Ltd

Pravir Arora is Executive Vice President Mr Arora has over 23 years of domestic of Aptech Ltd., a global education and international experience, having company, which has trained more than worked at various strategic level roles 7 million students over the last 30 years with leading multinational corporations and now operates 1300 plus centres such as Wipro, Digital Equipment, worldwide. He was inducted into the Compaq, CA and Sun Microsystems. Aptech family in the year 2011 as Head He is an alumnus of RV College of of International and EBG Business. Engineering, Bangalore (class of 1993). He has recently taken responsibility as a Chief Marketing Officer. He is also responsible for Alliances and Aptech’s entry into the developed countries. Professor Robin Batterham Kernot Professor of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne Member, Australia India Council Chair of the Advisory Panel of the Australia India Strategic Research Fund

2010-present 1970-1988 Melbourne University: Member Council, CSIRO. Various roles including Chief leadership roles at the interface between of Division of Mineral Engineering. the University and Industry and Responsible for collaborative research Government, research in mining, mineral with mining companies. processing, algal and energy systems. 1996-2016 Board Member or Technical Adviser to Organist. The Scot’s Church Melbourne. 5 companies. 1988-2009 Various senior roles in Rio Tinto, including Global Head of Innovation and VP Processing Developments: responsible for innovation, collaboration on technological development, R&D and the key technological aspects of major new projects and investments. 1999-2005 Dual appointment as Chief Scientist of Australia and Chief Technologist of Rio Tinto. Pratap Bhanu Mehta Vice Chancellor Ashoka University

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is an Indian academic. constitutional law, politics and society He was the president of the Centre for Policy in India and international politics. His Research, a New Delhi-based think tank scholarly articles have appeared in leading and one of India’s most distinguished think international referred journals in the field, tanks. He was a Professor at NYU Law as well as numerous edited volumes. His School’s Global Faculty. He has previously early work was on eighteenth century Visiting Professor of Government at thought, particularly on Adam Smith and Harvard University; Associate Professor the Making of the Enlightenment. He has of Government and of Social Studies at also written on issues of Cosmopolitanism, Harvard, and for a brief period, Professor of Liberalism, Rights, Judicial Review, Philosophy and of Law and Governance at International Governance and Democratic Jawaharlal Nehru University. He became the Theory. His most recent publications Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University on include, The Burden of Democracy and an July 1, 2017. He has been described as “one of edited volume India’s Public Institutions. India’s more thoughtful intellectuals.” He is also a member of the group that produced Non-Alignment 2.O (Penguin Pratap Mehta has also done extensive public 2013) and co-editor of Shaping the policy work. He was Member-Convenor Emerging World: India and the Multilateral of the Prime Minister of India’s National Order (Brookings Press, 2013). He is also Knowledge Commission; Member of co-editor (with Niraja Jayal) of the Oxford the Supreme Court appointed Lyngdoh Companion to Politics in India. He is a Committee on Indian Universities and recipient of several awards. He won the has contributed to a number of reports Malcolm S. Adisheshiah Award for Social for leading Government of India and Sciences in 2010, the prestigious Infosys International Agencies. He was on the Board Prize in 2011 and the Amartya Sen Award of Governors of IDRC. He was Vice-Chair for Social Science, 2013. Pratap Mehta is of the World Economic Forum’s Council on a participant in public debates in India Global Governance. He has also served on and abroad and has written columns for the Board of NIPFP, NCAER and NIID. He national and international dailies, including is also on the Editorial Board of numerous the Indian Express, Hindu, Financial journals including the American Political Times. Several leading dailies have named Science Review and Journal of Democracy. him amongst India’s most influential Pratap Mehta has published widely in the opinion maker. He is an Editorial fields of political theory, intellectual history, Consultant to the Indian Express. Mr Richard Bolt Secretary Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources State Government of Victoria

As the secretary of the Victorian Richard has previously served Department of Economic Development, on national committees advising Jobs, Transport and Resources, Richard ministerial councils on education and Bolt leads a team of more than 5,000 energy, including the Advisory Board employees, who support and advise nine to the Australian Centre for Renewable government ministers across transport, Energy. He was deputy chair of the state- economic development, employment and territory National Emissions Trading innovation, agriculture and resources, Taskforce and has served as a director and creative industries. of Schools Connect Australia. Richard Bolt is currently the Secretary Richard holds a bachelor’s degree in of the Department of Economic electrical engineering from the South Development, Jobs, Transport and Australian Institute of Technology Resources (DEDJTR), where he (now the University of South Australia), leads more than 5,000 staff based in a master’s degree in public policy and metropolitan Melbourne, regional management from Monash University, Victoria and internationally. Richard and a Graduate Diploma in Company supports and advises nine government Directorship. ministers across five portfolio groups – transport; economic development, employment and innovation; agriculture and resources; and creative industries. Prior to joining DEDJTR, Richard was Secretary of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) (2011-14), and Secretary of the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) (2006-11). The Honourable Chris Bowen MP Shadow Treasurer Australian Labor Party

Chris Bowen entered Parliament in 2004 He has a Bachelor of Economics degree, and has held a wide range of portfolios a Masters Degree in International including serving as Treasurer, Minister Relations and is the final stages of for Human Services, Minister for completing a Diploma in Modern Immigration, Minister for Financial Languages (Bahasa Indonesia). Services, Assistant Treasurer, Minister He lives in Smithfield with his wife for Competition Policy, Minister for (Rebecca), two children (Grace and Max) Small Business and Minister for Tertiary and Ollie the Labrador. Education. Chris has been responsible for a range of significant policy reform programs in these portfolios. He served as Interim Leader of the Labor Party and Acting Leader of the Opposition following the 2013 Federal election and has been Shadow Treasurer since 2013. Chris is served on Fairfield Council for nine years is a former Mayor and President of the Western Sydney Councils (WSROC). Professor Virander Singh Chauhan Chairman University Grants Commission New Delhi

Prof. Virander Singh Chauhan obtained He is also deeply involved in human his Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate resource development through major in Chemistry from Delhi University. In involvement in selection processes addition to a brilliant academic record, he of highly prestigious Rhodes has also been an outstanding sportsman scholarships, Inlaks Scholarships and and represented Delhi University and Felix Scholarships for Indian students Oxford University in athletics and cross to study abroad. Prof. Chauhan has country. He won the prestigious Rhodes received several prestigious national scholarship (1974) to study at Oxford and international awards including University. Upon his return to India in civil honour Padma Shri in 2012. He is 1979, he taught at St. Stephen’s College, elected member of all major National IIT - Kanpur, and Delhi University. In Science Academies - Indian National 1988, he joined the International Centre Science Academy (INSA); National for Genetic and Biotechnology (ICGEB) Academy of Sciences, India (NASI); and became its Director in 1998, a Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc); as position he held until 2014. well as Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is Member of UGC and His major scientific contributions are in Chairman of the Executive Council of the fields of malaria vaccine and drug National Assessment and Accreditation development and in study of peptides of Council (NAAC). He is also Chairman biological importance. An experimental of the Pay Review Committee for the malaria vaccine that was developed 7th Pay Commission for all government entirely in India was taken to clinical funded institutions of Higher Education. trials in India. His current research is Currently, he is holding the post of also focused on developing peptide based Chairman, UGC. nanostructures for efficacious delivery of biomolecules. His scientific interests also include advocacy in infectious diseases like HIV and TB in India. He has published more than 250 research papers and guided more than 50 research students. Dr Swapan Dasgupta MP Presidential Nominee to the Rajya Sabha Senior Journalist and Political Commentator

Swapan Dasgupta is a political Swapan Dasgupta has occupied columnist and public policy analyst important editorial positions in major with 27 years’ experience based in Indian newspapers and weeklies New Delhi, India. His columns on including Times of India, Telegraph, contemporary India are published in Indian Express and India Today. He was The Telegraph, Sunday Times of India, the London correspondent of Indian Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle, Pioneer, Express from 1995 to 1996. He was Jagran and Free press Journal. In Managing Editor of India Today until addition, he is a regular commentator 2003. In addition, he has been published on politics on Indian TV news in the Wall Street Journal, Tehelka, The channels, NDTV, CNN0IBN, Times Hindu and New Statesman, A specialist Nowand Headlines Today. He has in Indian politics, Swapan has been participated in roadshows on India’s on TV panels in every general election political economy hosted by Deutsche since 1998. Bank Equities and CLSA in Mumbai, Singapore and Hong Kong. Educated at La Martiniere College (Kolkata) and St Stephen’s College (Delhi), Swapan Dasgupta was awarded a PhD by the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) in 1980. Subsequently he was elected a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford from 1982 to 1985. Professor Glyn Davis AC Vice-Chancellor The University of Melbourne

Glyn Davis is Professor of Political He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Science and Vice Chancellor and Social Sciences in Australia and a Principal of the University of Melbourne. Companion in the Order of Australia. He has served as Chair of the Group Professor Davis was educated in political of Eight and Chair of Universities science at the University of New South Australia. Wales and the Australian National University, before undertaking post- In 2008 Professor Davis co-chaired doctoral appointments as a Harkness the Australia 2020 Summit and, in the Fellow at the University of California same year served as a member of the Berkeley, the Brookings Institution Innovation Taskforce, an expert group in Washington DC and the John F. commissioned to review Australia’s Kennedy School of Government at research and innovation systems. Harvard University. In 2010 Professor Davis presented Professor Davis teaches and researches the Boyer Lectures published as The in the field of public policy. His public Republic of Learning. sector service includes terms as the Director-General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Queensland, and as Foundation Chair of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. Professor Jane den Hollander President and Vice-Chancellor Deakin University

Professor Jane den Hollander AO has Professor den Hollander is a Board been President and Vice-Chancellor of member of Education Australia Limited Deakin University since July, 2010. and UniSuper Limited. She is Trustee and Deputy Chair of the Geelong Performing At Deakin, Professor den Hollander Arts Council, Chair of Skilling the Bay introduced LIVE the future, an aspiration (a Victorian Government initiative), a for Deakin to drive the digital frontier member of the Kardinia Park Trust and a in higher education, harnessing the member of the VERNet Board (Victorian power, opportunity and reach of new and Education and Research Network). emerging technologies in all that it does. Prior to taking up her appointment as Professor den Hollander holds a BSc Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University, (Honours) First Class in Zoology and Professor den Hollander was Deputy a Master of Science degree from Wits Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Curtin University, Johannesburg. Her PhD is University in Western Australia. from the University of Wales, Cardiff. Professor den Hollander received an Order of Australia for her distinguished service to tertiary education in the 2017 Australia Day Honours awards. Mr Shaurya Doval Director India Foundation

Shaurya Doval is a Managing Director Mr Doval is also a Director of India at Zeus Caps wherein he leads the Foundation, a think tank based in investment business in India. He has New Delhi, with strong nationalistic over 20 years of international investment credentials. banking experience during which time he Mr. Doval was the Eisenhower Fellow has worked for over a decade in London from India for 2015. with the leveraged finance business of GE Capital and the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley. He has also worked with Corporate Finance Advisory at Arthur Andersen in India. Mr. Doval is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA from London Business School. He is a recipient of the ‘Udyog Ratna Award’ in 2012 for his contribution to the growth of the Indian power sector. Mr Ross Fitzgerald Co-Chair Australia India Leadership Dialogue

Ross Fitzgerald is a Director of Visy Industries, and the Founding CEO of Spectrum Venture Management. Ross is committed to promoting greater friendship, mutual understanding and co-operation between Australia and India. To this end he is: Co-Chairman, the Australia India Leadership Dialogue; and the India Australia Israel Food and Water Security Dialogue; Board member of the Australia India Institute; the Australian Friends of ASHA; and the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. Ross was formerly a consultant with McKinsey & Co., and he has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Professor Dawn Freshwater Vice-Chancellor The University of Western Australia

Professor Dawn Freshwater became Impact Case Measurement in Ireland. Vice-Chancellor of The University of Prior to this she was a panel member for Western Australia (UWA) in January the Higher Education Funding Council 2017, having previously served for three for England (HEFCE) 2014 Research years as Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Excellence Framework (REF) (UK), (SDVC) and Registrar. She has led the first full research assessment using the design and implementation of a impact measures to assess the quality modernised academic structure, with of research in UK higher education the aim of optimising UWA’s world institutions. She continues to provide class research, and further cultivating supervision to PhD students, and has exceptional educational outcomes contributed to almost 200 publications. and student experience. Professor Since moving to Australia, Professor Freshwater continues to lead UWA Freshwater has been appointed a through this significant new phase of Member of the National Health and growth and reform. Research Medical Council’s Women in Born in England, Professor Freshwater Health Science Committee; Inspector was awarded her PhD at the University of Health Services with the Office of of Nottingham in 1998. She is a highly Corrective Health Services in Perth; experienced and driven supporter of Board member of the WA Health translational research and research- Translation Network; Director of led teaching. Her contribution to the the Perth USAsia Centre; and Board fields of Public Health (specifically member of the Harry Perkins Institute Mental Health and Forensic Mental of Medical Research. Professor Health) and in researching Leadership Freshwater is an active member of practices won her the highest honour in the Worldwide Universities Network her field - the Fellowship of the Royal (WUN). College of Nursing (FRCN). In 2016, she was invited to act as Chair of the Institutional Research Review Panel (IRRP) for Research Assessment and Professor Margaret Gardner Vice-Chancellor and President Monash University

Professor Margaret Gardner became Professor Gardner has previously been President and Vice-Chancellor of Monash chair of Museum Victoria and chaired University on September 1, 2014. the Strategic Advisory Committee and the Expert Panel of the Office Prior to joining Monash, Professor of Learning and Teaching (Federal Gardner was Vice-Chancellor and Government Department of Education President of RMIT from April 2005 and Training). She has also been a until August 2014. She has extensive member of various other boards and academic experience, having held committees, including the Australian- various leadership positions in American Fulbright Commission, the Australian universities throughout her ANZAC Centenary Advisory Board career, including at the University of and the International Education Queensland and Griffith University. Advisory Committee, which led to Armed with a first class honours degree the Chaney Report. In 2007, Professor in Economics and a PhD from the Gardner was made an Officer of the University of Sydney, in 1988 she was a Order of Australia in recognition Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow spending of service to tertiary education, time at the Massachusetts Institute of particularly in the areas of university Technology, Cornell University, and the governance and gender equity, and to University of California, Berkeley. industrial relations in Queensland. Professor Gardner was appointed Chair of Universities Australia in 2017 and she is a Director of the Group of Eight Universities. She is also a Director of Infrastructure Victoria and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), and was recently made a member of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Inclusion and Diversity Committee. Dr Arunabha Ghosh CEO Council on Energy, Environment and Water CEEW India

DR ARUNABHA GHOSH is a public policy International Centre for Trade & Sustainable professional, adviser, author, columnist, and Development, Geneva. institution builder. He is the founder-CEO Dr Ghosh has advised India’s Prime of the Council on Energy, Environment and Minister’s Office, several ministries, state Water (CEEW), consistently ranked (four governments and international organisations years running) as one of South Asia’s leading on a range of subjects. He was invited by policy research institutions; and among the Government of France as a Personnalité the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks in d’Avenir to advise on the COP21 climate 2016. With experience in 41 countries, he negotiations. He also advised on HFC previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, negotiations under the Montreal Protocol. UNDP (New York), and WTO (Geneva). He is a member of Track II dialogues Arunabha advises governments, industry, with seven countries; and formulated the civil society and international organisations Maharashtra-Guangdong Partnership on around the world. He is the co-author/editor Sustainability. He serves on the Executive of four books and dozens of research papers Committee of the India-U.S. PACEsetter and reports. He is a World Economic Forum Fund. He has presented to heads of state and Young Global Leader, appointed to WEF’s legislatures across the world on varied topics Global Future Council on Energy. He is an including global governance, international Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader, and fellow relations and human development, climate, of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. energy, natural resources and water, trade Dr Ghosh led CEEW into a leading think- and intellectual property, development tank soon after its founding in August assistance, conflict and extremism. 2010. He has been actively involved in the He holds a doctorate from the University of design of the International Solar Alliance Oxford (Clarendon Scholar; Marvin Bower since inception. He conceptualised and is a Scholar), an M.A. (First Class) in Philosophy, founding board member of the Clean Energy Politics and Economics (Balliol College, Access Network (CLEAN), an industry Oxford; Radhakrishnan Scholar); and topped body for hundreds of decentralised energy Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. entrepreneurs. He is board member of the Dr Ajay M Gondane Indian High Commissioner Designate to Australia High Commission of India to Australia

Dr. A.M. Gondane joined the Indian Dr Gondane was Officer on Special Foreign Service in 1985. He worked Duty with Dy. Speaker, Lok Sabha and in various capacities in the Indian a Research Fellow at the Stimson Embassies & Consulates including Centre, Washington D.C. He is a in Damascus, Baghdad, Vienna, Doctorate in Sociology. Ankara and New York. He was High Dr. A.M. Gondane, is presently Commissioner of India to Papua New India High Commissioner designate Guinea, Solomon Islands & Vanuatu. to Australia. He also worked earlier in SAARC, West Asia North Africa, Bangladesh- Myanmar Divisions. He was the Coordinator for the XIV SAARC Summit in New Delhi, 2007. Mr Allan Gyngell National President Australian Institute of International Affairs Honorary Professor in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific

Allan Gyngell is National President of His most recent book, Fear of the Australian Institute of International Abandonment: Australia in the World Affairs and an Honorary Professor in Since 1942, was published in April 2017 the Australian National University’s by La Trobe University Press. College of Asia and the Pacific. He is an Officer in the Order of Australia. His long career in Australian foreign and national security policy included appointments as Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, the inaugural Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and to senior positions in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Professor Peter Høj Vice-Chancellor and President The University of Queensland

Professor Peter Høj commenced as Professor Høj is the chair of the Board Vice Chancellor and President of The of Group of Eight (Go8) Universities University of Queensland on 8 October in 2017, a member of the Australian 2012. Prior to this appointment he was Medical Research Advisory Board Vice-Chancellor and President of the (AMRAB) from 2016 and a member University of South Australia from June of the Queensland State Government’s 2007. Before that, he was CEO of the International Education and Training Australian Research Council (2004- Advisory Group (IETAG) from 2016. 2007) and Managing Director of the He is a member of the Council of the Australian Wine Research Institute Confucius Institute Headquarters since (1997-2004). December 2017. He was educated at the University of He is a Fellow of ATSE and a Foreign Copenhagen, majoring in biochemistry Member of The Royal Danish Academy and chemistry, has a Master of Science of Sciences and Letters. degree in biochemistry and genetics, a

PhD in photosynthesis, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen and the University of South Australia. Mr Jeyakumar Janakaraj CEO and Country Head Adani Australia

Jeyakumar Janakaraj, better known He was responsible for the concept as JJ, serves as the Chief Executive to completion of all the expansion Officer and Country Head of Adani projects of Hindustan Zinc and greatly Group’s Australian operations. JJ supported the company to achieve joined the Adani Group in 2013 and excellence in business. is responsible for Adani’s business in In 2006, JJ was awarded the Gold Medal Australia including the Carmichael by the Indian Institute of Metals for his coal mine, rail and port projects. JJ significant contribution to the non- has a Mechanical Engineering degree ferrous metallurgical industry and is from PSG College of Technology, in also listed by the International Who’s Coimbatore and a rich experience of 25 Who of Professionals (2009). In 2008 he years in the mining industry; building was awarded the DEMAG Gold medal and developing world-class mining for innovative leadership by the Indian projects and resource companies. Institute of Metals. He also is a member JJ began his career in the steel sector of the Global Mining Executive Council in India as a mechanical maintenance of Accenture. He is on the Board of engineer before joining Sterlite Industries, CIAB of IEA. where he remained and progressed for 18 years. During this tenure he held a number of executive roles, including CEO and Director of Konkola Copper Mines in Zambia, at Copper Mines of Tasmania and also President of Hindustan Zinc. JJ has proven that hard work, dedication and the right attitude are key traits that have facilitated him to thrive in his professional career and grow through the ranks. Professor Craig Jeffrey CEO & Director Australia India Institute

Professor Craig Jeffrey is Director and Professor Jeffrey works regularly CEO of the Australia India Institute, for the BBC and his scholarship has Professor of Geography at the University influenced the thinking of organisations of Melbourne, and former Professor of such as the United Nations, World Geography at the University of Oxford Bank, Department of International where he was also an Official Fellow Development (UK), and Commonwealth of St. John’s College. He works on Government of Australia. In 2014 he contemporary India, youth, politics and became a Fellow of the Academy of development across the disciplines of Social Sciences (UK) in recognition of geography, anthropology, Asian Studies, “the outstanding impact of his work”. and education. In 2017 he was elected as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Building on long-term social research Professor Jeffrey has advised numerous in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, PhD researchers in Seattle, Oxford, and Professor Jeffrey has made a major Melbourne.,many of whom are now contribution to scholarly and popular working in top universities worldwide. understanding of India. He has written He has also recently developed a New eight books related to India, including Generation Network of post-doctoral Timepass: Youth, Class and the Politics scholars conducting applied research on of Waiting in India (Stanford University contemporary India. Press 2010), which is one of the most highly cited research monographs published on India during the past ten years; India Today: Economy, Society and Politics (with Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss; Polity 2012), a second edition of which is appearing in 2018; and India: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2017), part of Oxford University Press’s prestigious Very Short Introduction series. Mr Robert Johanson Chairman Australia India Institute

Robert Johanson is the Chair of the corporate division of Macquarie Australia India Institute Board; Bendigo Bank, and has been involved in a wide and Adelaide Bank, MBD Energy, variety of capital markets transactions and Australian Friends of Asha; as for leading corporations. Previously he well as Director of Neuclone Ltd and worked as a solicitor, a law lecturer and Robert Salzer Foundation. He was the as a consultant to mining and finance Deputy Chancellor of University of businesses. He is also a sheep farmer. Melbourne (2007-2017) and member of Takeovers Panel. He worked at corporate advisory firm Grant Samuel and since 1993 was responsible for its Melbourne office. Robert has 30 years’ experience in corporate finance and investment banking, including Rohit Kansal Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir Government Former Chief of Staff Mining and Renewable Energy

Rohit Kansal is a senior civil servant Vaishno Devi Shrine (Board) at Katra, with India’s permanent bureaucracy. A India he attempted to marry tradition member of the Class of 1995 of the Indian with technology resulting in a significant Administrative Service (IAS), he has up gradation of processes and facilities held a variety of diverse and challenging at the Holy Shrine. assignments in the last 2 decades of his Rohit Kansal has been trained at the service. As head of the public works London school of Economics, the Indian department in the state of Jammu Institute of Management, Kolkata and the and Kashmir in India, he is currently Thapar University in Punjab, India. He is responsible for overseeing annual public a fellow of the India leadership Initiative investment of over US $ 500 million in (ILI) of the Aspen Global Leadership diverse road and infrastructure projects. Network (AGLN), the Australia-India His assignment with the Ministry of Institute at the University of Melbourne New and Renewable Energy in the as well as a Chevening Gurukul fellow. federal government saw him keenly He has been invited as an expert on involved with a number of path breaking renewable energy and energy access by initiatives in cleantech in India including the International Renewable Energy the policy framework of the ambitious Agency (IRENA) and has served as a Indian solar initiative-the National Solar Sherpa in the UN Secretary-General’s Mission. He has also previously headed High-level Group on Sustainable Energy the office of the (then) Federal Finance for All (SE4ALL), as well as an expert in Minister in India where his key position the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM). In gave him a ringside and close-up view of February 2014, he spent 8 weeks at the many of the critical financial issues facing Australia-India Institute looking closely us today. As District Magistrate and at the challenges facing the scalability of Collector in some of the most difficult the decentralised energy-access models areas in Jammu and Kashmir, India, in energy poor areas around the world. he oversaw the relief and temporary Besides renewable energy, he has also resettlement of over a quarter of a published case studies and newspaper million villagers displaced by the massive articles on administrative and strategic security build-up on the international issues. He volunteers his time and skills border and was in-charge of the logistics for a number of social causes. Widely of the historic Indo-Pak peace initiative- travelled, he has been published in travel the Srinagar-Muzzaffarbad bus service. journals too. He lives with his wife and As Additional Chief Executive Officer (ACEO) of the highly revered Shri Mata son in Jammu, India. Dr Rajiv Kumar Economist Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog National Institution for Transforming India

Dr. Rajiv Kumar is a leading Indian Board of the Reserve Bank of India; economist and has recently been (ii) Member of the International Board appointed, the Vice Chairman of NITI of Management of King Abdullah Aayog by the government of India. He Petroleum Studies and Research Center, is the author of several books on India’s Riyadh, chaired by the Saudi Arabia’s economy and national security. His latest Minister of Petroleum and Energy; books are Modi & His Challenges (2016), (iii) Director, Institute of Human Resurgent India: Ideas and Priorities Development, Delhi; (iv) Director, (2015) and Exploding Aspirations: Giri Institute of Development Studies, Unlocking India’s Future (2014). He is a Lucknow; (v) Independent Director on widely recognized economic columnist the Board of DHFL; and (vi) Member, and a leading speaker on issues in Indian Advisory Board of CISCO, India. political economy. In the past he served as the Government Presently, he is: (i) Founding Director of India nominee on the Boards of: of Pahle India Foundation (PIF), Delhi; (i) Economic Research Institute for (ii) Chancellor of the Gokhale Institute ASEAN and Asia (ERIA) Jakarta; (ii) of Economics and Politics (A Deemed Central Board of the State Bank of India, University, Pune). PIF, a non-profit Mumbai; (iii) Indian Institute of Foreign think tank focuses on facilitating Trade, Delhi; (iv) Part Time Member, economic policy change based on National Security Advisory Board (2006- objective and rigorous research. 2008); (v) Part Time Member Economics, TRAI, New Delhi (2007-2010). He concurrently serves as: (i) Government of India nominated Independent Director on Central Mr Jayant Krishna Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer National Skills Development Corporation NSDC India

Jayant represents the voice of industry in the skill development sector and supports various initiatives such as reforms, capacity building and operational effectiveness in NSDC’s skilling eco system. Jayant is also responsible for optimum utilization and efficient monitoring of various resources available within the organization. Jayant represents NSDC at domestic and international fora and is also the official spokesperson for NSDC. Mr Vinay Kumar Joint Secretary (South) Ministry of External Affairs MEA Government of India

Mr Vinay Kumar took over as Joint During his tour of service at Permanent Secretary in charge of Southern Mission of India in New York (2010-13), Division in the Ministry of External he was India’s Political Coordinator in Affairs, Government of India in the UN Security Council when India August 2017. was a non-permanent member of UNSC during 2011-12. During 2013, he served At the Ministry of External Affairs, as a member of the UN’s Advisory he has handled the Eastern Europe Committee on Administrative and and Russia desks and administrative Budgetary Questions (ACABQ). matters. He was Joint Secretary for East & Southern Africa from 2013-15 and He graduated from the Indian Institute in-charge of India’s Africa Policy and of Technology, Kharagpur, and joined India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) the Indian Foreign Service in 1992. mechanism. Mr Kumar has served in Indian missions at Tashkent (1994-95), Bishkek (1995-98), Ottawa (1998-2001), Warsaw (2003-06), Tehran (2006-09), New York (2010-13) and Kathmandu (2015- 17). Has handled political, economic, educational, cultural and administrative & financial matters in these missions. Was also Charge d’ Affaires of the Indian Missions at Warsaw, Tehran and Kathmandu for extended periods. Mr Upendra Kushwaha Minister of State for Human Resource Development (School Education and Literacy) Government of India

Mr Upendra Kushwaha is Minister of university professor in the Department State for Human Resource Development of Political Science, Samta College (School Education & Literacy) in the (currently known as Muneshwar Singh Government of India. He is a Member Muneshwari Samta College) since 1985. of Parliament from the Karakat Lok Sabha constituency in Rohtas district of Bihar and formerly has been a member of Rajya Sabha. He also worked as Professor Sharon Lewin Director Doherty Institute

Sharon Lewin is the inaugural director hepatitis B virus. She is widely recognized of the Peter Doherty Institute for for her innovative work in understanding Infection and Immunity, a joint venture how HIV hides on treatment using novel between the University of Melbourne laboratory models and leading several and Royal Melbourne Hospital; early phase clinical trials of cancer drugs Professor of Medicine, The University that alter HIV genes. of Melbourne; consultant infectious She was the local co-chair of the diseases physician, Alfred Hospital, XXth International AIDS Conference Melbourne, Australia; and an National (AIDS2014), the largest health Health and Medical Research Council conference ever held in Australia. She is (NHMRC) of Australia Practitioner a member of the council of the NHMRC Fellow. She is an infectious diseases and chairs the NHMRC Health physician and basic scientist and was Translation Advisory Committee. In previously Director of the Department 2014 she was named Melburnian of of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital the Year. and Monash University (2003-2014) and co-head of the Centre for Biomdecial Research, Burnet Institute (2011-2014). She leads a large multi-disciplinary research team that focuses on understanding why HIV persists on treatment and developing clinical trials aimed at ultimately finding a cure for HIV infection. Her other research and clinical interests include understanding how the immune system recovers following treatment of HIV and the interaction between HIV and other important co-infections including Hon David Littleproud Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Government of Australia

David Littleproud was elected in July member of the Queensland State 2016 as the federal member for the Parliament (Legislative Assembly) from electorate of Maranoa in the state of 1983 to 2001, serving as Minister for Queensland, in the lower house (House Education, Youth and Sport (1987-89), of Representatives) of the Australian and Minister for Environment (1995- Parliament. He is a member of the 98), when the National Party was in National Party, the main Australian government. political party representing rural and David Littleproud was educated at regional Australia. In December 2017, Chinchilla State High School and he was appointed the Minister for Toowoomba Grammar School. From Agriculture and Water Resources. 1994 to 2016 he worked in banking and The federal electorate of Maranoa is finance, specialising in agribusiness one of the largest by area in Australia, banking. covering 731,000 square kilometres in David Littleproud is married to Sarah, south-western Queensland. Its main and they have three sons: Tom, Hugh economic industries are agriculture and Harry. (cattle, sheep, grain and horticulture) and mining. David Littleproud was born and raised in Chinchilla, rural Queensland, and comes from a political family. His father Brian Littleproud was a Mr Sajad Gani Lone Minister for Social Welfare, Science and Technology Jammu and Kashmir Government

Mr. Sajad Gani Lone is from the In the year 2014, Mr Lone was elected State of Jammu & Kashmir, India. to the Legislative Assembly of Jammu He did his schooling from the Burn and Kashmir State from the Handwara Hall Missionary School, Srinagar, Constituency in north Kashmir after Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India. which he went on become a Cabinet After graduating with BSc (Hons) in Minister in the State government. As a Economics from Cardiff University, Minister of Animal/Sheep Husbandry, UK, in the year 1986, Mr Lone dabbled Fisheries and Science & Technology with business for a few years in Dubai Departments in his first stint, Mr. Lone until he decided to join active politics in has chartered several vision documents India in the year 2002. for the departments under his portfolio. His efforts in transforming the dairy A prolific writer Mr. Lone has authored and animal husbandry sectors in the much debated (in India and Jammu and Kashmir State from a non- Pakistan), document on “Achievable revenue earning sector to substantial Nationhood”. The said document revenue earning one were widely hailed dwells at length the Kashmir issue in the State. with Pakistan, India and the people of Kashmir as Mr Lone has described in At present Mr. Lone is a Minister in the his document, as its stakeholders as also Jammu & Kashmir government and the road forward to the Kashmir issue’s handles the portfolios of Social Welfare and Science & Technology Departments. lasting solution. Mr. Lone has a dream to transform Mr. Lone also takes part in national the Social Welfare Department TV debates in India which are centered of Jammu and Kashmir from the around international relations and supposedly charity organization into political affairs. His presence on prime an empowering organization. He is also TV channels at the national level in a Renewable Energy enthusiast with panel discussions has earned him passion for development of solar & small the sobriquet of vociferous panelist, hydro power sectors and has a fixed especially on the political issues a target for himself to make the state concerning India’s stand vis-à-vis of Jammu & Kashmir self sufficient in Kashmir issue. energy through large scale intervention of solar and small hydro power energy. Professor Amitabh Mattoo Co-Chair Australia India Leadership Dialogue Honorary Director Australia India Institute @ Delhi

Professor Mattoo is a Professor of at Stanford University, University of Notre Disarmament Studies at the Centre for Dame, the University of Illinois, and the International Politics, Organisation and Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. Disarmament at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal He has published extensively including Nehru University. eight books and more than a hundred articles. He was awarded the Padma He is also the honorary Director at Shri, one of India’s highest civilian Aii@Delhi and honorary Professor of awards, for his contribution to International Relations in the Faculty education and public life. of Arts, University of Melbourne. Professor Mattoo is currently the Advisor to the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir with the status of a Cabinet Minister. Professor Mattoo has been the CEO and Inaugural Director of the Australia India Institute (2011-2015), a Member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India and the National Security Council’s Advisory Board. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu from 2002-2008. He received his Doctorate from the University of Oxford and has been a visiting Professor Ms Sheba Nandkeolyar National Chair, Australia India Business Council Board Member, Australia India Council

Sheba Nandkeolyar is the National She set up her own company in Chair of the Australia India Business 2006 and is today an accomplished Council (AIBC) and a board member Australian Indian business woman. of the Australia India Council. She She is CEO and Co-Founder of actively advises Government and MultiConnexions, a leading Australian Industry on trade and business matters integrated marketing and advertising pertaining to India and Asia. She services company and CEO Founder promotes bi-lateral business and trade, of Global Connexions, a leading global and people-to-people connections marketing and cross-cultural services between Australia and India. company as well as President and Chair of India HR. She is a Board Member Sheba is on the forefront of organising of the International Advertising trade missions to and from India Association - Australia Chapter (IAA). and other Asian countries. Sheba accompanied Former Australian Sheba was recently awarded the Prime Minister Tony Abbott in his IAA Inspire Champion Award – an historic visit to India in 2014. She was International Lifetime Achievement also actively involved in the business Award for Excellence in Global leaders address by visiting Indian Communications by IAA in London. Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, in November 2014. Sheba set up the AIBC Women in Business Chapter with the purpose of actively linking women in business across Australia and India. Sheba previously held CEO positions with the McCann World Group, Interpublic, and the WPP Group. Senator the Hon James McGrath Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister Government of Australia

James grew up on the Sunshine Coast In 2010 James returned to Queensland in Queensland, where his family had as the State Campaign Director for the been growing sugar cane for many Liberal National Party (LNP). In 2012, generations around Bli Bli and Yandina. the Queensland LNP won the state election in a landslide. After finishing school, James completed a Bachelor of Commerce/Laws at Griffith In 2013 James put himself forward as a University and went on to complete candidate for the Australian Senate. In a Master of Laws at Queensland September of that year he was elected University of Technology. as a Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland. He took up the position In 1996 he started work as a Solicitor in July 2014 and has based his office in at Bennett Carroll and Gibbons in Nambour, on the Sunshine Coast. Brisbane, before taking on the role as Investigating Officer for the Queensland In 2015 Senator McGrath was appointed Parliamentary Ombudsman. the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister in the Turnbull Ministry and In 2001 James took a new path, and in 2016 he was appointed the Assistant started work as a Ministerial Advisor for Minister for Regulatory Reform. the South Australian Government. With politics in his blood, James found his He also briefly served as the niche and never looked back. Assistant Minister to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Since then, James has worked on political campaigns around Australia When he is not in Canberra or travelling and overseas. He was instrumental in around Queensland, James spends as the campaign to elect Boris Johnson much time as possible at his home in the Mayor of London and he was Warwick on the Southern Downs region the National Presidential Campaign of Queensland. Director for the Maldivian Democratic Party in 2008. Ambassador Gopalaswami Parthasarathy Indian Diplomat and Author

Born on May 13, 1940, Mr. of External Affairs and Information Gopalaswami Parthasarathy is a career Adviser and Spokesman in the Prime Foreign Service Officer who retired Minister’s Office with Prime Minister from Service on May 31, 2000. Prior to Rajiv Gandhi (1985-90). He has been a his entry to the Indian Foreign Service member of Indian Delegations in several Mr. Parthasarathy was a Commissioned international conferences including Officer in the Indian Army (1963- summits at United Nations, Non- 1968), after having graduated with a Aligned Movement and SAARC. B.E. Degree in Electrical Engineering Mr. Parthasarathy is presently Visiting from the College of Engineering, Professor in the Centre for Policy Guindy, Madras in 1962 He has served Research in New Delhi. He is also a as Ambassador of India to Myanmar, member of the Executive Committee 1992-95, High Commissioner of of the Centre for Air Power Studies in India to Australia 1995-98, High New Delhi. He was a Member of the Commissioner of India to Pakistan Government of India’s Task Force to 1998-2000 and High Commissioner of Review National Security Structures India, Cyprus 1990-92. He also served in India. His main areas of interest are in Indian Missions abroad as Second/ developments in India’s neighbourhood First Secretary, Embassy of India, and issues of economic integration, Moscow (1969-1973), Deputy High energy and national security and Commissioner to Tanzania (1974- terrorism. Ambassador Parthasarathy 1976), Counsellor, (Political and Press), is a widely read Columnist, writing Embassy of India, Washington D.C., for a number of newspapers and news (1978- 1981); and Consul General of agencies in India and abroad on foreign India, Karachi (1982-1985). policy and national security issues. He In New Delhi, Mr. Parthasarathy is on the Panel of Experts from India was Deputy Secretary in the Foreign for Track 2 Dialogue with ASEAN Secretary’s Office (1976-1978). He and a Director of the India-Sri Lanka has served as Spokesman, Ministry Foundation. Professor Ila Patnaik Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

Dr Ila Patnaik serves as a professor at Dr Patnaik served on various working the National Institute of Public Finance groups and task forces of the Ministry and Policy, New Delhi. Prior to this, she of Finance, such as those on taxation of was the Principal Economic Advisor to financial products, and those to create the Government of India. Other former agencies, including the independent positions include Non-Resident Senior Public Debt Management Agency, the Associate at Carnegie Endowment Resolution Corporation, the Financial for International Peace, and regular Redress Agency and the Financial Data columnist at the Indian Express. She Management Centre. holds a BA (Economics) from Delhi University, an MA (Economics) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a Ph.D.(Economics) from the University of Surrey. Her research interests include international macroeconomics, finance and emerging economy business cycles. Her research on these topics has been published in scholarly journals such as the Journal of International Money and Finance, the World Bank Economic Review, International Finance, and in collected volumes. Mr Hardeep Singh Puri Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Government of India

Hardeep Singh Puri was inducted into He has had a distinguished four- the Council of Ministers, Government decade career in diplomacy spanning of India, as Minister of State the multilateral arena, having held (Independent Charge) for Housing and Ambassadorial posts in London, Urban Affairs on 3 September, 2017. Brazil and as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations The Ministry of Housing and Urban in both Geneva (2002-2005) and New Affairs is the apex authority of York (2009-2013). He is one of the few Government of India at the national Indians to preside over the United level to formulate policies, sponsor Nations Security Council and the and support programme, coordinate only one to have chaired its Counter- the activities of various Central terrorism Committee. He served as Vice Ministries, State Governments and President at the International Peace other nodal authorities and monitor the Institute and as Secretary-General programmes concerning all the issues of the Independent Commission on of housing and urban affairs in the Multilateralism in New York. country. He is the author of the book ‘Perilous The Ministry is the part of the Interventions: The Security Council & government where three of the Prime The Politics of Chaos, a Harper Collins Minister’s flagship programmes are publication (September 2016). anchored – Swachh Bharat Mission, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and Smart Cities. These programmes are bold and ambitious and when implemented, individually and collectively, will have a transformative effect and involve a paradigmatic shift. Mr Girish Ramachandran President, Asia Pacific Tata Consultancy Services

Girish Ramachandran is President, Girish serves on a number of executive Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) boards, including at the Europe-India Asia Pacific, responsible for business Institute and International Business operations in 12 countries in the Foundation Amsterdam, Chairman of regions of Australia & New Zealand, Confederation of Indian Industries’ ASEAN, Greater China and Korea. Benelux chapter, and is a board member Girish is based in Singapore, the of Kooh Sports. Headquarters of TCS Asia Pacific, Girish holds a Bachelor’s degree in where he oversees over 25,000 Computer Technology from PSG employees covering the region. College of Technology, Coimbatore, Girish joined TCS in 1994 and has Tamilnadu, and a Master’s degree held a number of key portfolios in the in Management from Jamnalal Bajaj organization. Prior to TCS Asia Pacific, Institute of Management Studies, he served as Corporate Vice President Mumbai. He is a recipient of the Frans in the CEO’s office at TCS House in Banninck Cocq Medal from the Mayor Mumbai, where he was responsible for of Amsterdam. He is a frequent guest global strategic business initiatives. lecturer at universities across Europe Before that, he was Head of TCS and Asia Pacific. Europe (9 years), and TCS Middle East, Africa and Mediterranean (2 years), where he grew the business multifold and was instrumental in developing many key customer relationships with leading global brands. Other roles have included Head of TCS Business Intelligence Practice worldwide as well as Executive Sponsor of numerous global customer relationships. Mr Jang Bahadur Sangha Managing Director Sangha Group

Mr Jang Bahadur Singh Sangha is Mr. Sangha, has a Bachelor’s Degree the Director of Sangha Group based in Agriculture (Honours) from in the state of Punjab in India. The Punjab Agricultural University, India state is also known as food bowl of & a Master of Science degree from India for its high agricultural output Cornell University, USA in Fruit & and inclination towards world class Vegetable Science with specialization agricultural technologies. in Biotechnology based seed-potato production. He is a renowned The Sangha group has been the largest businessman & a progressive farmer producer of seed and table potatoes who sits on various Boards in advisory in Asia since 40 years. It is located at capacity. Jalandhar in the state of Punjab, an area known for the highest quality of seed production in India. The group is producing over 55,000 tons of high quality potato seed annually which is the largest volume produced by a single group in India. The disease-free seed potatoes are produced under a limited generation seed program on an area of about 5000 acres in Punjab which is leased from farmers. In addition to potato, Sangha group is one of the major producers of maize in the country. Lt. Gen (Retd) Ravi Sawhney Dean – Centre for Defence Studies Vivekananda International Foundation

Lt Gen Ravi Sawhney retired as the of Indian Army troops at various UN Deputy Chief of the Army Staff. He is a missions as a Deputy Chief of Army post graduate in Defence and Security Staff. He has been awarded the PVSM Planning from the Royal College of and AVSM for exceptional devotion to Defence Studies, London prior to which his duties. he attended Defence Services Staff Post retirement, he was deputed by the College at Wellington and Long Defence Government of India to monitor the Service Management Course at the situation in Afghanistan, a country College of Defence Management, India. which he has visited every year since He has commanded an Infantry 2002. Considered an area specialist on Battalion, Division and a Corps during this country, he has shared his thoughts his military career and subsequently and indepth knowledge of Afghan crisis served as the Director General of as well as other strategic issues with a Military Intelligence. During the Army number of think tanks and in different service of approximately 40 years, he seminars, the world over. has held important appointments in He is presently a Dean of Defence staff and command of different combat Studies in Vivekananda International units and field formations including 4 Foundation, an important ‘think tank’ corps in Assam. Duties encompassed in New Delhi, comprising retired management and planning for different senior officers of Armed Forces, types of situations in varied terrain diplomats, intelligence officers and civil conditions with special emphasis servants. He has been associated with on counter terrorism and counter this prestigious institution since its insurgency operations. He was inception in 2009. involved in conceptual development of strategies at senior levels as the Director of Military Intelligence and was subsequently responsible for the overall coordination of the deployment Mr Ashvini Shekhar Managing Director Global Pacific Nominees Pty Ltd

Ashvini Shekhar is founder and CEO of Ascent Yarns, a leading speciality yarns manufacturer with operations in Australia, Sri Lanka and India. Ascent has pioneered new technology to provide global fashion houses with branding and security solutions. Ascent is the world’s largest supplier of yarns for branding and the first company to recycle plastic waste to make woven labels. Ashvini, an engineer by training, has also successfully started and exited businesses in renewable energy and consumer electronics. Outside work, Ashvini is a husband, a father, and a student of Buddhism. Mr Greg Sheridan AO Foreign Editor The Australian

Greg Sheridan AO, The Australian’s Sheridan has interviewed Presidents and foreign editor, is the most influential Prime Ministers in the Republic of Korea, foreign affairs commentator in Japan, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Australia. He is the author of six books the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, on international relations and has been Thailand, New Zealand and Israel, and foreign editor since 1992. He entered cabinet secretaries and vice presidents in journalism in 1979 as a staff writer for China, the United States and numerous The Bulletin and joined The Australian countries in the Middle East and Europe. newspaper in 1984 as an editorial writer He is a frequent commentator on TV and in 1985 was appointed the paper’s and radio and a sought after speaker at first ever Beijing correspondent. After regional conferences. His work has been postings to Washington and Canberra anthologised in many books and has been he took up the position of Foreign translated into many other languages. Editor in 1992. Greg has written six books, most of Greg Sheridan’s work has appeared in them on Asian politics and foreign newspapers and journals around the affairs. His most recent book is a world, including the Sunday Times, The memoir, When We Were Young Wall Street Journal, the South China and Foolish, and he has a new book Morning Post, the Jakarta Post and scheduled for publication in September. the Hindustan Times. In 2001 he was awarded the Centenary of Federation medal by the Australian Government for services to journalism. In 2015 he was appointed as an Officer in the Order of Australia. Her Excellency Harinder Sidhu High Commissioner of Australia to India Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Government of Australia

Harinder Sidhu is Australia’s High Ms Sidhu began her career as a diplomat Commissioner to India. She also holds with the Department of Foreign Affairs non-resident accreditation to the and Trade, where she was posted to Kingdom of Bhutan. Cairo, Damascus and Moscow. She holds degrees in Economics and Law Ms Sidhu is a career officer with the from the University of Sydney. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her most recent role was as head of the Multilateral Policy Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. There, she was responsible for relationships with the UN and UN agencies, the UN Security Council and the Commonwealth, as well as for issues such as human rights, climate change and people smuggling. Ms Sidhu has held several senior roles in government, most recently as a Division Head in the Department of Climate Change (2008 – 2013). Ms Sidhu was Assistant Director-General in the Office of National Assessments from 2004. Between 1999 and 2004, she worked in senior economic and defence adviser roles in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Senator the Hon Lisa Singh Australian Senate for Tasmania Australian Labor Party

Lisa Singh was first elected to the and 2014, and the Australia-India Australian Senate in 2010, representing Youth Dialogue. Also in 2012 she was the state of Tasmania. She was re- caucus liaison for the Gillard Labor elected for a second term at the 2016 Government’s engagement in the Federal election. Australia in the Asian Century White Paper. She has visited India several During her term in the Senate Lisa has times on issues including foreign served as the Shadow Parliamentary affairs, aid and development, human Secretary to the Shadow Attorney- rights, environment, energy and General and the Shadow Parliamentary workplace health and safety. Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Water. In 2014, the President of India awarded her a Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award Lisa is considered the first woman for her exceptional and meritorious of South Asian descent to be elected public service as a person of Indian to the Australian Parliament. She heritage in fostering friendly relations follows in the political footsteps of her between India and Australia. grandfather Ram Jati Singh, a member of the Fijian Parliament in the 1960s. Lisa has a long history in advocacy for human rights and international As the only person of Indian origin development. She is a member of the in the Australian parliament, she Australian TB Caucus and the Asia- has continued to build Australia’s Pacific TB Caucus. She is also co- relationship with India. She chair of the Parliamentary Friendship participated in the Australia- Groups of UNICEF and for HIV/AIDS, India Leadership Dialogue in New Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Dehli in 2015, the Lowy Institute’s Transmitted Infections. Australia-India Roundtables in 2012 In 2016 Lisa was seconded to the United She holds a Bachelor of Arts with Nations General Assembly in New Honours, a Masters of International York as a delegate from the Australian Relations and was ‘Hobart Citizen of parliament. While attending the UN the Year’ in 2004. Lisa engaged with the Refugee Summit, Sustainable Development Goals, and Women’s Empowerment. In 2016 Senator Singh was appointed as a Member of the International Board of Advisors for the Centre for India Australia Studies (CIAS) at O.P. Jindal Global University in New Dehli. Prior to being elected to the Australian Senate, Lisa served in the Tasmanian Parliament as a Labor Member for Denison from 2006 to 2010 and was a Minister in the Tasmanian Labor Government from 2008. Dr Harsha Vardhana Singh Executive Director Brookings India

Dr. Harsha Vardhana Singh has for Sustainable Development (IISD), worked for over three decades on member of Global Agenda Council international trade policy, development, on Trade and FDI 2014-2016 (WEF), infrastructure regulation and global chair/member of high level policy governance. He is Executive Director, committees, chair of WTO dispute Brookings India, and Senior Fellow settlement panels, and visiting faculty of the Council on Emerging Market at research institutes on trade and Enterprises (Fletcher School). Dr. regulation. He is a Ph.D. in Economics Singh was Deputy Director-General from Oxford University, where he went at World Trade Organization for eight as a Rhodes Scholar from India. years till 30th September 2013. His direct areas of responsibility included trade in agriculture, services, trade and environment, technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and electronic commerce. In India, Dr. Singh was economic advisor and then secretary of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. Earlier, from mid-1985 he worked in GATT/WTO Secretariat for twelve years. He has taught at SIPA (Columbia University), Fletcher School (Tufts University), and Nan Kai University in China; been Senior Associate at International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Senior Fellow at International Institute Dr Shubnum Singh Dean Education MIHER Max Institute of Health Education and Research

Dr. Shubnum is an alumnus of Lady medical education, catalysing public Hardinge Medical College, Delhi and private partnership opportunities as well has 38 years of experience in the medical as skilling of healthcare/paramedical profession ranging from a Pathologist, workers in India. Allergist, and Administrator to Health She is a founder member of the care Policy Framework and Strategy. Healthcare Sector Skill Council A founder member of Max Healthcare (HSSC) and Life Sciences Sector Skills Institute Ltd. She has been actively Development Council which create a involved in strategizing and developing robust and vibrant eco-system for quality different verticals of the business. As CEO vocational skill development in the of Max Institute of Health Education & Healthcare space in India. Research, she was actively engaged in As a Clinical Allergist her vision is developing the educational and skilling to grow the discipline, build research vertical for the group. Currently as capabilities within the scientific Advisor Healthcare Framework she community in India by jointly conducting provides strategic guidance to the group epidemiological research on childhood in various projects. food allergy and atopy prevalence with As a pivotal member of the Confederation Indian and overseas bodies. of Indian Industry (CII) National She is a Life Member of the South Asia Healthcare Council for the last 15 years Association of Allergy, Asthma, Clinical she has spearheaded, and led numerous Immunology (SAAAACI), Indian initiatives and interventions that College of Allergy, Asthma & Applied positively impact the healthcare sector Immunology (ICAAAI), American at large. These include multi-stakeholder Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and policy deliberations, developing and Immunology (AAAAI), Indian Academy building strong industry linkages on of Allergy (IAA) & European Academy pricing of healthcare services in India, of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Health insurance and reimbursements (EAACI). mechanisms, remodelling higher Dr Shashi Tharoor Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Author and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs

Dr Shashi Tharoor is an award-winning author of 16 books of fiction and non- fiction, including The Great Indian Novel, Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century and the latest An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India. He has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. A second-term Member of Parliament representing Thiruvananthapuram, and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, he has served as Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. During his nearly three-decade long career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker, and administrator at the highest levels, serving as Under-Secretary General during Kofi Annan’s leadership. Ms Vicki Thomson Chief Executive Group of Eight Universities

Vicki Thomson is the Chief Executive of She has extensive experience in building the Group of Eight, taking up the role in relationships between business, industry January 2015. and universities, and supporting increased access to university for people Prior to this role she was Executive from all backgrounds. Director of the Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN). In 2016 she was named in The Australian Newspaper’s Top 30 most influential Ms Thomson’s diverse background covers people in Higher Education. print and electronic journalism, politics, issues management and the higher education sector. She has an extensive media, political and policy background and was Chief of Staff to a South Australian Premier. She is a Board member of the European Australian Business Council and is a member of the Australian Government’s New Colombo Plan Steering Group. She is a former Board member of the Australia-China Business Council. She is also a member of MS Research Australia’s Leadership Council, a small national group of people intended to help keep MS Research Australia’s strategy contemporary and relevant. This passion is driven by her own personal experience of having a sister with the debilitating disease. Professor Yogesh Tyagi Vice Chancellor University of Delhi

Professor Yogesh Tyagi (LLM, Columbia He held visiting appointments at London University; MPhil and PhD, JNU) is School of Economics, Max Planck Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University. Institute for International Law, University He is Member of l’Institut de Droit of Tokyo, East China University, International; General Assembly, ICCR; University of Georgia at Athens, etc. International Advisory Panel, American Besides his book, The UN Human Rights Law Institute. He is on Editorial Boards Committee (Cambridge University of Chinese Journal of International Press), he published in British Yearbook Law (Oxford) and Human Rights and of International Law, Cambridge Journal International Legal Discourse (Brussels). of International Law, Journal of World Trade, Michigan Journal of International He was Dean, Faculty of Law, South Law, Social Science and Medicine, Texas Asian University; Dean, School of International Law Journal, etc. International Studies, JNU; Director, Human Rights Teaching and Research Centre, JNU; Professor, City University of Hong Kong; Member, Law Commission of India; Director, Research Centre, The Hague Academy of International Law; Executive Editor, Indian Journal of International Law. Shankar Vanavarayar Executive Director Kumaraguru College of Technology

Shankar Vanavarayar is an inspired Adigalar and Mahatma Gandhiji to educationist, business and organization attain spiritual perfection, wisdom, leader, a spirited patron of arts, education and to render service to history and heritage, and a successful humanity. O.P.R. Memorial Educational entrepreneur. In a highly dynamic and Institutions are synonymous with diversified professional career spread spiritual based quality education. over 15 years he has held leadership Shankar aims at transforming the positions in businesses, education Indian higher education system through institutions, social development path-breaking reforms in governance, organizations and programs within The learner-centric academic programs and Sakthi Group, and in the Confederation infrastructure, research & innovation of Indian Industry (CII). oriented industry partnership, international collaboration among As President/Jt Correspondent of others. Shankar has led strategy, events Kumaraguru college of Technology, a and policy making within Yi and the premier institution founded in the year national level in areas such as higher 1984, KCT is committed to provide quality education, entrepreneurship, family Education and Training in Engineering business and skill building in CII. and Technology to prepare students for life and work equipping them to contribute Shankar has a proven track record in to the technological, economic and social building teams, strategic planning, development of India. managing programs and operations in multiple domains spanning business Also as a president of Suddha Sanmarga (automotive, financial services, agri- Nilayam Institutions, established in foods, retail), education (arts, science 1951, with over 5000 Students enrolled, & technology), culture and heritage, the nilayam has 15 institutions and community and social development, situated in Neyveli road, Vadaloor, international youth affairs, cross- Suddha Sanmarga Nilayam is national institutions and alliances etc. dedicated to proliferate and follow the values upheld by Vallalar Ramalinga As the National Chairman of Young He is also passionate about the heritage Indians (YI) in 2011-2012, Shankar of the land and works for the cause of played a key role in the creation of the preservation through INTACH. He Commonwealth Asia Alliance of Young founded The Vanavarayar Foundation Entrepreneurs (CAAYE). He also led to work in the areas of history, Indian delegations and has represented architecture, culture and heritage. India as the Global Young Leader in the BOAO Forum in Hong Kong (2011) and China (2012) and has delivered keynote speeches at the Commonwealth Business Forum London, CHOGM Perth summit (2011), G20 France, and Aspen Institute Seminar, Italy (2010). Shankar is a Fellow of The Aspen Institute’s, Aspen Global Leadership Network- Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship and looks at personal transformation as an integral ingredient to impacting change in the larger world. Ram Madhav Varanasi Board of Directors India Foundation

Ram Madhav Varanasi has been the Member of the National Executive and in charge of the media and public relations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Presently, he has been appointed as the National General Secretary of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). Mr Peter Varghese AO Chancellor The University of Queensland

Mr Varghese took up his position as the Mr Varghese was appointed an Officer fourteenth Chancellor at The University in the Order of Australia (AO) in 2010 of Queensland on 11 July 2016. for distinguished service to public administration, particularly in leading Prior to this appointment Mr Varghese reform in the Australian intelligence was Secretary of the Department community and as an adviser in the of Foreign Affairs and Trade 3 areas of foreign policy and international December 2012 to 1 July 2016. His security. He was awarded a Doctor of diplomatic appointments include Letters honoris causa by The University High Commissioner to India (2009- of Queensland in July 2013 in recognition 12), High Commissioner to Malaysia of his distinguished service to diplomacy (2000-02) and postings to Tokyo, and Australian public service. Washington and Vienna. In October 2016 Mr Varghese took up From 2004-09, Mr Varghese was the position of non-Executive Director Director General of the Office of on the Board of AMP. National Assessments, a statutory office which reports directly to the Mr Varghese is a graduate and university Prime Minister and also coordinates medalist in history from The University the Australian intelligence community. of Queensland. He is married to In 2003, Mr Varghese was the senior Margaret Varghese. They have one adult international adviser in the office of son and a grandson. Prime Minister John Howard. He also headed up the international division of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1998-99. In 1996-97, Mr Varghese headed up the secretariat which drafted Australia’s first White Paper on foreign and trade policy. Ambassador Anil Wadhwa Former Senior Diplomat Government of India

Ambassador Anil Wadhwa has been a meetings like FIPIC. Ambassador member of the Indian foreign service from Wadhwa has contributed to a number of July 1979 till May 2017. In this 37-year articles on foreign policy, disarmament career with the Indian foreign service he and international security. He is fluent has been ambassador of India to Italy & in Chinese and knows French. His wife San Marino, Thailand, Oman and Poland ambassador Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa has & Lithuania and has served in Hong Kong, also been the Indian ambassador to Japan, Beijing (twice), Permanent Mission of Qatar, Sweden and Latvia. India in Geneva and worked on deputation with the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons in The Hague where he headed their media and public affairs and government relations branches. Ambassador Wadhwa was head of the East Europe division in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi and looked after relations with Russia and Eastern European countries. As Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs he oversaw relations with ASEAN, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, the GCC, Middle East and West Asia. He has attended a host of international conferences and was Indian delegate to the conference on disarmament in Geneva, first committee in New York as well as to the ASEAN, ASEM, ADMM, and small island states Senator the Hon Penny Wong Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Australian Labor Party

Penny is the Shadow Minister for Following the election of the Labor Foreign Affairs and a member of the Government in 2007 Penny was Parliamentary Joint Committee on appointed the Minister for Climate Intelligence and Security. Change and Water and later served as Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Penny was born in Malaysia and moved to Adelaide with her family as an eight year In 2013 Penny was appointed Leader of old where she now lives with her partner the Government in the Senate. After the and their two daughters. change of Government she was appointed Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Before entering politics Penny worked for Penny is the first woman to hold both a union, as a ministerial adviser in the these roles. NSW Labor Government, and as a lawyer. Penny was elected to the Senate in 2001 and took her seat in 2002. Observers Dr Karen Barker Executive Manager and Senior Advisor Engagement Australia India Institute

Dr Karen Barker has over ten years’ She has a professional background as experience working in Australia’s a government solicitor with expertise international higher education sector. in contract law and negotiation. She She is currently Executive Manager holds a Bachelor of Laws from the and Senior Adviser Engagement at Australian National University, and a the Australia India Institute, based at PhD and a Master in Tertiary Education the University of Melbourne. She has Management from the University of held senior roles in the University of Melbourne. Melbourne’s international portfolio since the first Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) was appointed in 2006, most recently leading the team of International Relations Advisers in the International Relations Office. Dr Matthew Brown Deputy Chief Executive Group of Eight Universities Australia

Dr Matthew Brown has worked in Higher Dr Brown’s background includes a PhD Education in academic and professional in Pure Mathematics (Combinatorics roles for 15 years, both in Australia and and Finite Geometry) from a Group Europe. He is committed to advancing of Eight university - the University of the understanding of the national benefits Adelaide - and research positions at the that a world class university system can University of Adelaide, the University deliver and in developing policy solutions of Western Australian and Ghent that support this. University, Belgium. He is currently the Deputy Chief He has also worked at the Australian Executive of the Group of Eight Technology Network of Universities Universities taking up the role in May (ATN) in research policy and as the 2016 after having been Senior Director, Director of Australia’s first Doctoral Policy at the Group of Eight since Training Centre (in Mathematics and September 2015. Statistics). As part of his role at the Go8 he has been centrally involved in the establishment of the Westpac – Go8 STEM PhD trial that commenced in 2017. Dr Alexander Davis New Generation Network Scholar Australia India Institute / La Trobe University

Dr Alex Davis is from Hobart, and the ‘Old Commonwealth’. With La Australia, where he studied history Trobe University and the Australia-India and international relations at the Institute, he is focused on viewing Indian University of Tasmania. He became foreign policy through its states, viewing particularly interested in colonial them as international political spaces history and its effects on contemporary with unique histories, identities and politics, especially in India. He moved perspectives on international affairs. to the University of Adelaide to pursue a PhD, studying India’s relationship with the English-speaking world. After completing, he worked at the University of Johannesburg, studying the colonial foundations of the discipline of international Relations across India Professor Karen Day Dean, Faculty of Science The University of Melbourne

Karen Day is a distinguished malaria few women “dons” in science at Oxford. geneticist dedicated to improving global In 2004 Professor Day moved to New health using her scientific training. York University School of Medicine Born in Melbourne, she was educated where she held several senior academic at the University of Melbourne and administrative roles including Chair of completed her PhD studies at the Walter the Department of Medical Parasitology; and Eliza Hall Institute. She had the Director of the Institute of Urban and “life changing” opportunity of studying Global Health, and Director of a Masters the public health problems of Papua Program in Global Public Health. She New Guineans as a young postdoctoral joined the University of Melbourne researcher. This experience led her to in 2014 as Dean of Science to lead strengthen her computational biology Australia’s premier Science Faculty. In training as applied to public health at addition, she continues to run a malaria Imperial College and the University research group based in the Bio21 of Oxford. Institute and School of BioSciences. She has had a diverse career as a scholar Professor Day is an expert on higher and academic administrator in both education as well as malaria. She is science and medicine in the UK, US passionate about science and solving and Australia. Highlights include being problems in global health. recruited to University of Oxford in 1993 where she was soon promoted to Professor for her scholarship and leadership. She was appointed Fellow of Hertford College becoming one of the Ms Fiona Docherty Vice-President for External Relations University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Fiona is responsible for UNSW’s In 2004, Fiona took on the challenge of International, Marketing & developing a commercial and customer Communications Service. As Vice- service strategy for Historic Scotland’s President, Fiona leads this evolving network of properties. service, supporting the President and Before joining UNSW, Fiona moved to Vice Chancellor to deliver UNSW’s 2025 her alma mater to shape a new portfolio Strategic Plan and providing leadership at the University of Glasgow. In 2012 across the following areas: Fiona became Pro-Vice Chancellor, • Recruitment of future students to International at UNSW. UNSW full degree and alliance programs, ensuring UNSW becomes ‘Australia’s Global University’ • Development of strategic international partnerships • Strengthening of the University’s branding, communications and marketing strategy Graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1990, Fiona worked for a progressive family business, Betty’s & Taylors of Harrogate, becoming the company’s youngest Director. Professor Simon Evans Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) and Professor, Melbourne Law School The University of Melbourne

Professor Simon Evans was appointed as He is a full Professor in the Melbourne the University’s first Pro Vice-Chancellor Law School where he served as Deputy (International) in 2010, with primary Dean, Director of Teaching and responsibilities to provide: Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. He has held • high-level strategic support to the ARC Discovery Project grants, Deputy Vice-Chancellor in leading including one as sole investigator, the international portfolio and has published widely in the top • oversight of the International journals in his field, in Australia and Relations Office and internationally. He has been a finalist in • high-level international national teaching awards. representation. As PVCI, among other things, he has led development of the University’s international strategies and implementation plans; prosecuted development of international relationships, particularly in Asia; provided high level strategic and operational advice on partnerships, projects and proposals across all domains of University activity; and served on the Alumni Council and the Campaign Asia Advisory Board. Ms Brigid Freeman Research Associate Australia India Institute

Brigid Freeman is a research associate Brigid was a visiting scholar at the with the Australia India Institute at the University of California, Berkeley University of Melbourne specializing and American Council of Education. in international comparative research She has a Masters of Education Policy focused on higher education, (International) and is completing a vocational education and training, PhD exploring institutional policy in and internationalisation. Brigid Australian universities. has undertaken research regarding science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) policies and programs globally, and humanities research in the Asia region. Brigid has presented her research to international forums in India, Australasia, the United States, Japan, China and the United Kingdom. She has consulted for UNESCO on international systems for university admissions, and Australasian universities regarding institutional policymaking and delegations. Dr Amanda Gilbertson Lecturer in Youth and Contemporary India Australia India Institute

Dr Amanda Gilbertson is Lecturer class, gender and youth in urban India. in Youth and Contemporary India Her current projects explore the gender at the Australia India Institute, justice work of young people in Delhi, University of Melbourne. She has reporting on gendered violence in DPhil in Anthropology from the Indian print media, and equity in the University of Oxford, where she was Indian education system. Her book a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to joining the Within the Limits: Moral Boundaries of Aii, she was a McKenzie Postdoctoral Class and Gender in Urban India was Fellow in the School of Social and published by Oxford University Press Political Sciences at the University in 2017. of Melbourne. Amanda’s research interests lie in the anthropology of Dr Meenakshi Gopinath Founder & Director Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP)

Meenakshi Gopinath is Founder and program in Kashmir, which networks Director WISCOMP, an initiative and trains women and youth and begun in 1999 to promote the peacebuilding developed by her is leadership of South Asian women in the acknowledged as an adaptable model for areas of international politics, peace, sustained dialogue in areas of conflict. security and diplomacy. In addition to Meenakshi Gopinath is a member of her work on education, her research multi-track peace initiatives such as the and publications also focus on issues longest sustaining Track II Neemrana of security, peacebuilding, gender Initiative, between India and Pakistan and politics. and the Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy and the Meenakshi envisions WISCOMP as a Chaophraya Dialogue. pulsating centre of engagements with efforts to build and sustain Cultures of Meenakshi has written and lectured Peace at local, national, regional, and extensively on issues of Conflict global levels. WISCOMP’s partnerships Transformation, Peace building and with schools and colleges in training Education for Peace in South Asia and young people into a new vocabulary internationally. of leadership and active coexistence The first woman to serve on the through the education and civil society National Security Advisory Board space in several parts of the country, of India (2004 – 2006), Meenakshi reflects this aspiration. sought to mainstream gender and Dr. Gopinath has piloted and fostered human security concerns. She serves confidence building measures through on the governing boards of research regular conflict transformation institutes, think tanks, NGOs and workshops and collaborative projects educational institutions and has among intellectuals of the SAARC developed programs and curricula for region and especially between young educating for peace, in universities, Pakistani and Indians. An innovative colleges and schools. Meenakshi is an active participant fostering global peace through Conflict in national and international civil Resolution, La Trobe University, society initiatives on fostering Australia, Distinguished Alumna Award, coexistence between communities by Lady Shri Ram College for Women, and foregrounding women’s roles in for meritorious contribution in the field building peace. Her work in the area of Education. of enhancing excellence and equity in She is an Honorary Adjunct Professor, education spans over three decades. La Trobe Asia, La Trobe University, In recognition of her contribution to Australia and Visiting Distinguished the field of women’s education and Scholar, School of Social Sciences empowerment, she has received several 2015, Monash University, Melbourne, awards including: Padma Shri Award, Australia. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi Award, Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence in Education, Mahila Shiromani Award, Delhi Citizen Forum Award, Qimpro Platinum Standard Award for Education, Celebrating Womanhood South Asian Recognition Award for Social Harmony, International Lifetime Achievement Award – 2009 for her outstanding work in the field of justice, Equity, Peace and Progress, M. Singhvi Fellowship Award at the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies (DDMI),University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Award of Honorary Doctorate Degree for significant contribution to the education of women and the commitment to Dr Nathan Grills Nossal Institute for Global Health The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Nathan Grills’s that Nathan has utilised include extensive international engagement realist methodologies, social network has generated various international analysis, participatory methods, research collaborations, 37 peer qualitative evaluations and large reviewed journal articles 2 books and scale prevalence surveys. Nathan has 12 book chapters. As a Public Health supervised and hosted more than 40 Physician he is involved in public students and volunteers through his health training, research and advocacy research programs in India. Nathan and is a regular media commentator also helped establish five health and on public health issues. Nathan’s development focused NGOs and research expertise relates to the undertakes applied research with these areas of non-communicable diseases, projects. Although India has been the disability inclusion, community health focus for much of his work he has also evaluation/monitoring, primary health worked in international health and care systems and understanding faith development in Africa, Fiji, East Timor, based development agencies and PNG, Bangladesh and Nepal. Nathan programs. In tobacco control Nathan obtained his MPH and DPhil at Oxford has worked extensively in India to University under a Rhodes Scholarship inform the development of preventative and also completed a DPH on the tobacco packaging interventions. impact of public health partnerships. In the disability field Nathan has led the implementation of the RAD tool in India. The research methods Mr Tony Huber Australian Consul General Mumbai

Mr. Huber is an experienced career Mr. Huber earlier served overseas as officer with the Australian Department Australia’s Deputy High Commissioner of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). to Canada, in Ottawa 2003-2007 and Before being appointed Consul General as First Secretary at the Australian with Consular responsibility for High Commission to India, New Delhi Western India, Mr Huber served in a 1996-1999. He was seconded from DFAT range of strategic policy roles in DFAT to the US Congress Committee on from 2007 to 2016 to advance Australia’s Ways and Means staff in Washington interests in the Indo-Pacific region. He DC as a policy adviser 1989-90. In was Director of India Economic and Canberra, Mr. Huber was Director, Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Regional Trade Policy Section and as Section 2013-2016, including through a services/investment trade negotiator Australia’s term as IORA Chair. As on the Australia-Thailand Free Trade Director Pacific Bilateral Section from Agreement negotiation 2002-2003, and 2007, Mr. Huber managed Australia’s Director Consular Information and sensitive relationships with 19 countries Crisis Management Section 2000-2002. and territories, including over the Mr. Huber holds a Bachelor of 2009 Pacific Islands Forum year, which Science from the University of Canberra Australia chaired, and in the lead-up to and Graduate Diploma in Foreign Australia’s successful bid for election to Affairs and Trade from the Australian the UN Security Council. National University. Mr Rohit Mr Rohit Manchanda Trade & Investment Commissioner, India New South Wales Government

Manchanda has been the NSW Trade Rohit established the Singapore office & Investment Commissioner for India of Expopoint, leading the South-East since October 2009. He is responsible Asian operations of the company for attracting foreign direct investment, through markets in India, Hong Kong, promoting trade and maintaining Malaysia and Singapore. high-level government and business Rohit holds a Masters of Business relationships for NSW. Administration (MBA) in Marketing. Rohit’s career of over 23 years has included roles in both the public and the private sector. Prior to his current role, Rohit was the Chief Representative in India for the Mayor of London’s Office and the London Development Agency (LDA). From 2002 to 2007, Rohit worked for the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) in Mumbai and was awarded the ‘Global Austrader Award’ in 2006. Rohit started his career in marketing roles with Jindal South West (JSW), a leading Indian steel company. He then joined Expopoint Software, specialising in software and direct marketing activities for business events. Ms Zoe McKenzie Principal Trade and Investment Advisory

Zoe McKenzie is Principal of Trade Zoe is a board member of the Australia and Investment Advisory, a firm which Council for the Arts, the French advises Australian and international Australian Chamber of Commerce entities on their market expansion into and Industry and the University of Australia or into one of Australia’s Melbourne Humanities Foundation. current or future Free Trade Agreement partners. Prior to this role, Zoe was Chief of Staff to the Hon Andrew Robb AO, former Trade and Investment Minister, where she worked on the China, Japan, South Korea and Singaporean trade deals, as well as the Trans Pacific Partnership and lead-in work on future FTAs with Europe and Indonesia. She has also held policy development roles in education, the arts and the law. Before working in Government, Zoe practiced as a commercial lawyer in one of Australia’s largest law firms, and was a strategic adviser to the CEO of a major professional services firm. Mr Vinod Mirchandani Deputy Director Australia India Institute @ Delhi

Mr Vinod Mirchandani is Deputy Director at the Australia India Institute @Delhi. He is responsible for programs, management & operations of the Institute. Vinod has over ten years of industry experience in Banking, Telecom & Travel. Vinod has been responsible for the University of Melbourne’s Engagement in India since its inception in April 2007. His role entails student recruitment, industry collaborations, student services, academic & research partnerships and alumni engagement. Vinod has a Masters in Service Management from the University of Buckingham and has completed the first year of his PhD in Marketing at the University of Melbourne. Professor Brian Oldenburg Chair of Noncommunicable Disease Control & Director, Centre for Health Equity Melbourne School of Population & Global Health University of Melbourne

Brian Oldenburg is Professor of interventions to improve health. He Noncommunicable Disease Control in has long established partnerships the School of Population and Global and collaboration with India and he Health, University of Melbourne, coordinates a public health research Australia. He researches health policy, collaboration and exchange program global health and how to improve the between the University of Melbourne health outcomes of low and middle and research institutions in India, income countries. He also researches called the ENCORE program. new technologies and m-Health Ms Ravneet Pawha Associate Vice President, Global and Executive Director Asia Deakin University

Ravneet has over 24 years of experience Prior to her current appointment she in the International Education sector. She worked as Chief Executive Officer has been instrumental in establishing (South Asia and Middle East) for partnerships in South Asia. She has Education and Training Pty Ltd. She developed Australian Education held senior management positions collaborations specifically for Deakin with IDP Education Australia, British University in India and has contributed Council and Franchise Asia, a US based to the immense success across the Region. company where she was responsible to establish and manage the network of Currently, she manages the office of offices across India for education and Deakin University based in New Delhi training purposes. which was established 22 years ago. This was the first ever international She brings with her varied international ‘University office’ in India of any experience. She is a board member foreign University. The office has been at various national and international responsible for establishing holistic associations and forums including engagement across Government, the Confederation of Indian Industry, academia, industry and research. Australia India Business Council, Indian Sports Council, ANZBA to name The office currently manages activities a few. including strategic partnerships, recruitment, business development, admissions, academic collaborations, research engagement graduate employment and mobility in India and South Asia region for Deakin University. She has been instrumental in establishing over 20 strong industry / academic collaborations including the $8 million world class TERI-Deakin Nano-Bio research facility in India. Mr Harish Rao Global Head – Business Development Sundaram Business Services

Harish attended Melbourne Grammar office financial services to Australian School before completing higher studies corporates and Harish continues as at the Australian National University the face of the group in Australia, and (BCommerce & BScience) and Monash through this role continues to foster the University (Grad Dip Asian Business, Australia-India relationship. MBA (Finance)). Harish has been very active in the Harish has had extensive experience Australia India space over the last 15 in doing business in India having been years, has led numerous delegations to involved with the import & licensing India, and was formerly the Australia of generic pharmaceuticals as well as India Business Council (AIBC) National setting up India’s first herbal facility Chairman (2010 & 2011), President approved by the Australian Therapeutic AIBC (Vic) 2005 – 2009 inclusive and Goods Administration. With a President Australia India Chamber of background in chartered accounting, Commerce (2003-2005). He was recently Harish saw the opportunity in 2001 awarded Life Membership of the AIBC to pioneer the offshoring model for for services rendered. accountants in Australia and then Harish is currently a Patron of the partnered with Sundaram Business Australian World Orchestra, Board Services Limited (SBSL) in 2004 to Member of Friends of Asha Australia, develop the largest offshore processing Advisory Board Member for the India centre for Self Managed Superannuation Australia Business Community Awards Funds. SBSL is part of the Sundaram & Advisory Panel Member for the Finance Group, a US$4billion Australia India Institute. conglomerate, based in Chennai, India. SBSL now offers a wide range of back Mr Darren Rudd Head of Corporate Affairs Australia and New Zealand Tata Consultancy Services

Darren Rudd is Head of Corporate Darren is a member of the State Affairs and Public Policy ANZ for Tata Library of NSW Foundation Board and Consultancy Services, a global leader in the advisory boards of Asia Society IT services, consulting, technology and Australia and the Australia India Youth digital solutions. Dialogue. He was President of the Australian Business School (AGSM) He manages the company’s corporate Alumni in Sydney for eight years, and reputation and relationships across a member of the University of New Australasia and has carriage of South Wales Business School Alumni improvements in operational initiatives. Advisory Board. Darren has lived and worked in Hong Kong and China and his career spans management positions at AT&T, IBM and BHP. Immediately prior to joining TCS, he held lead corporate affairs roles with Australia’s largest national infrastructure company, the National Broadband Network, and operations roles at Alcatel-Lucent in Asia. Dr Indu Shahani President and Chair The Indian School of Management & Entrepreneurship (ISME)

Dr Indu Shahani is the President & She was awarded the Honorary Doctor Chair of the Indian School of Design of Letters degree by the University of & Innovation (ISDI), ISDI | WPP Westminster in London on November School of Communication and the 16, 2009. As a tribute to Dr Shahani, Indian School of Management & the University had instituted the Sheriff Entrepreneurship (ISME); and is the of Mumbai’s Scholarships for Women Founding Dean of ISME. from Mumbai to study a Master’s programme in the years 2009 and 2010 Dr Indu Shahani has been in London. acknowledged worldwide as a visionary thought leader for her significant Dr Shahani is a Visiting Faculty contribution to education and value- Member at the UC Berkeley, NYU based leadership. She has over four Stern, USA and she is a Lead Speaker decades of teaching experience at the at various conferences in India and college and university level. abroad. She has also developed many linkages for student and faculty Dr Indu Shahani was appointed Sheriff exchanges with leading universities of Mumbai in 2008 and the one year in USA, UK, Europe, South Africa, term was extended to an additional Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. term in 2009. Dr Shahani was also the first Indian to be appointed Vice-Chair Dr Shahani has received many awards, on the Board of the Governors of the prominent among them are ‘Women International Baccalaureate and has of the Decade Achievers Award’ by over a decade of experience with the IB ASSOCHAM; ‘Citizen of Mumbai worldwide 2001-2010. Award’ by Rotary Club of Bombay and ‘Excellence in Education Award’ by the Dr Indu Shahani has been nominated FICCI FLO. on leading boards of large national and global companies that has provided an impetus for ‘academia - industry collaborations’ the subject of her PhD from University of Mumbai. Mr Anil Snehi Vice President Australia and New Zealand Tata Consultancy Services

Anil Snehi is the Vice President of Tata As P&L owner of TCS’s ASEAN Consultancy Services, Australia and operations, he was the architect of New Zealand, a global leader in IT quantum growth in TCS’s business in services, consulting, technology and South East Asia and was responsible for digital solutions. many strategic new business initiatives Prior to joining TCS, Anil was a Responsible for formulating the manager at IT companies including Tech company’s Australasian strategy, he Mahindra (Satyam) and Mastek Limited. assumed his current role in 2016 after more than a decade at TCS’s APAC headquarters in Singapore and its ASEAN headquarters in Malaysia. Anil joined TCS APAC in 2005 and was instrumental in transforming the regional business by focusing on acquiring and maturing large customer relationships. He led TCS APAC’s sales and large customer strategy from 2006 to 2009. Ms Sujata Sudarshan Head, South East Asia and ANZ International Department Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

In her current profile, her mandate is Sujata has been with CII since 2006 to enhance economic engagement and has worked with the organisation through bilateral trade and investment in various capacities. Prior to this between India and various countries assignment, she was the CEO of the in the two regions. overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC) a public-private partnership Her activities include to facilitate between the Confederation of Indian Indian industry to connect with Industry and the Ministry of Overseas stakeholders in relevant economies and Indian Affairs set up to facilitate the understand opportunities to partner / Indian diaspora across the globe. collaborate and contribute to growth and development of the two countries. Her earlier activities included organising business exhibitions in To achieve this, she is involved in the sectors of Defence and Aerospace, project management which includes Hospitality, Space Technology, handling visits of Head of States, Automotive, Home Textiles, etc. organizing industry interactions, inward and outbound industry Sujata has specialised in Nutrition from delegations, regional conclaves, trade Delhi University. and investment forums and summits. She also liaises with the Ministry of Commerce for trade and investment related issues of the Indian Industry. She further facilitates industry by providing them with market insight, identifying business partners, understanding of local market requirements and in addressing their trade related issues. Mr Arjun Surapaneni CEO Victoria Institute of Technology

Arjun has extensive education, life’ were questioned “what was their technology and commercial experience first thought when they came back to with over 28 years’ experience in consciousness?” An amazing 87% said senior executive and Chief Executive they wish they studied/learned more. Officer roles. His expertise straddles Arjun is the Founder and Chief strategy, business growth, international Executive Officer of VIT (Victorian business development, marketing, Institute of Technology) since 1998. For technology commercialisation, business more information on our courses, please transformation, change management visit our web site at www.vit.edu.au. and sustainability. Arjun has coordinated IT project implementation Arjun is appointed as Member of and training with organisations such Multicultural Business Ministerial as: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Council (MBMC) by the Baillieu University, Covansys, IBM Global Government in Victoria from 24 Services, Ernst & Young, Computer October 2011 to 23 October 2013 and Science Corporation, WA Police further extended till October 2015 by Services, Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Dr. Napthine Government, Arjun is also Telstra, Health for Aged (Australian former the Chair of Export and Human Federal Government) & Dresdner Bank Capital (Including Education) working (UK) and BHP Australia. Although groups of the MBMC. a third-generation educator, Arjun become a dedicated educator in 1998 after he chanced up on a research paper published in USA. It stated that when many of the near dead, or people who were thought to be dead, ‘came back to Dr Mark Vicol New Generation Network Scholar Australia India Institute / University of Sydney

Dr Mark Vicol is a Postdoctoral including Geoforum and the Singapore Research Associate in the School of Journal of Tropical Geography, as well Geosciences at the University of Sydney. as media articles for the New Mandala. He was awarded his PhD in human Mark is currently researching the geography at the University of Sydney impacts of local institutional and in 2016, for a thesis that explores the livelihood contexts on the uptake of implications of contract farming for high-quality diets in India, with a rural livelihoods and agrarian change particular focus on the role of the Public in Maharashtra, India. Mark’s research Distribution System (PDS). focuses on the changing relationships between land, agriculture and rural livelihoods in South and Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on food and nutrition security. Since completing his PhD, he has been involved in research projects in Myanmar and Indonesia. He has published articles in journals Ms Michelle Wade Executive Director South Asia Victoria Government Business Office Bangalore

Michelle Wade is a highly experienced Michelle was on the board of Musica international trade official and has Viva Australia, one of Australia’s major held senior diplomatic postings for performing arts organisations and the Australian government in Italy, Australia’s leading provider of music Malaysia and Spain. education into Australian schools. Michelle commenced her role as Michelle has a Bachelor of Arts Commissioner to South Asia for from University of Queensland the Victorian government based and Postgraduate qualifications in in Bangalore in September 2017. Applied Law (UQ) and Business Immediately prior to this, Michelle Communications (QUT) and speaks managed the global network of offices Spanish and Italian. and the Business and Skilled Migration Michelle is married with three teenage program for the State Government of children. She grew up in the small town Queensland, Australia. of Woolgoolga, home to Australia’s first Michelle’s trade and investment Sikh community. career highlights have been around international investment in infrastructure and renewable energy, and also growing and deepening Australia’s education relationship in Spain, Italy and ASEAN region. Michelle’s early career was in classical music management with Sydney Symphony and Queensland Symphony Orchestras throughout the 1990s. Until her departure for Bangalore, Mr Iain Watt Pro Vice Chancellor (International) University of Western Australia

Iain Watt has been leading The Mr Watt also lived and worked in Taipei University of Western Australia’s for six years, and spent eight years in (UWA) international engagement Beijing at the Australian Embassy. since 2013 when he took up his While at the embassy he held positions appointment as Pro Vice-Chancellor of Counsellor (Education) for four (International). Mr Watt has extensive years and later, Minister-Counsellor international experience and a record of (Education). In both positions he was significant and successful leadership in the Australian Government’s senior international education. education representative in China. Prior to joining UWA, he was Director Mr Watt holds a Bachelor of Science of International Operations and (Mathematics and Statistics) from ANU Student Recruitment at the Australian and completed postgraduate studies National University (ANU), where he in Chinese language, economy and led international and domestic student culture. Mr Watt is fluent in Mandarin. recruitment and admissions, and was responsible for international strategic alliances and partnerships. Mrs Ameeta Wattal Principal Springdales School, New Delhi

She has worked in the sphere of Mrs Wattal is on several expert Education for over four decades. She committees both Nationally and specialized in a variety of fields ranging Internationally: from Creative Arts, special needs, Lead member of Global Education Curriculum Development and Peace Leaders Program (G.E.L.P), 63 Studies. She has held several posts in countries are a part of the collaboration India and abroad, at both school and sponsored by the Bill and Melinda university level. Gate Foundation, the Asian Education She is a recipient of the prestigious Foundation, ACER and CISCO. National Teachers Award 2005 from the Member, Board of Advisors for the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Australia India Institute. Kalam and the Endeavour Award 2009 – 10, from the Australian government Member of the Council for National for her work in the area of Asia Literacy Council of Teacher Education. along with innumerable awards Member of the Executive Council of nationally and internationally. She NCERT, Government of India and was a member of the panel of experts former member, Governing Body of the at the Oslo Coalition. She was on the Board of Central Board of Secondary UNESCO committee in Geneva for Education. education of peace and human rights. Member of the Delhi School Education She has conceived and produced the Advisory Board, Government of New material for the school reforms in Delhi. Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), the Value Education Kit and Gender Manual for SCERT. Ms Wendy Were Executive Director of Strategic Development and Advocacy Australian Council for the Arts

Dr. Wendy Were is Executive Director, Strategic Development and Advocacy at the Australia Council for the Arts. She has wide-ranging experience in arts management and curation, with prior roles including Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Sydney Writers’ Festival; CEO of West Australian Music; and Producer at the Perth International Arts Festival. DO NOT PRINT Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Partners

DO NOT PRINT The Australia India Institute (Aii) is The Aii is positioned to become Australia’s only national centre for the the premier centre for the study of study of contemporary India and the contemporary India globally. The Aii’s Australia-India relationship. approach to the study of India and the Australia-India relationship is different The Aii was founded in 2008, from that of other organisations: it is and is currently supported by the more networked across universities, it is Commonwealth Government of more reciprocal, in the sense of involving Australia, the State Government Indian collaborators, and it is more of Victoria and the University of concerned with engaging outside the Melbourne with the University of New Academy. South Wales and La Trobe University as partners Universities. In less than a decade, it has established itself as a place where students, academics, policymakers and business can learn about the grand challenges facing the Indo-Pacific. AII@Delhi is a proud signature partner of The AII@Delhi will work closely the Australia India Leadership Dialogue. with the Government of India, the Australian High Commission, and AII@Delhi, the first centre of the Indian universities and think tanks to Australia India Institute’s network to be expand the work of the Melbourne-based established in India, opened in February Australia India Institute. The Institute is 2015. The Institute’s plans to expand its committed to deepening and enriching operations to India with a centre in Delhi the strategic relationship between were announced by Australia’s prime Australia and India, a relationship that is Minister at the time, the Hon. Tony emerging as one of the most significant Abbott MP, during his trip to India in Asian partnerships of the 21st century. September 2014. By promoting public policy dialogue and academic debate, the new centre will facilitate research partnerships and serve as a resource hub for academics, policy makers and businesses. Visy is a proud signature partner of the It also plays a major role in the India- Australia India Leadership Dialogue. Australia-Israel Track II Trilateral Visy Global Chairman, Anthony Pratt, is Dialogue, which seeks to improve food also the Patron of the Dialogue. and water security in India. Visy is a leading, privately owned packaging and resource recovery company, with more than 120 sites across Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Vietnam and trading offices across Asia, Europe and the USA. The Confederation of Indian Industry Founded in 1895, India’s premier business (CII) works to create and sustain an association has over 8,500 members, from environment conducive to the development the private as well as public sectors, and of India, partnering industry, Government, an indirect membership of over 200,000 and civil society, through advisory and enterprises from around 250 national and consultative processes. regional sectoral industry bodies. With 67 offices, including 9 Centres of Excellence, CII engages closely with Government in India, and 11 overseas offices in on policy issues and interfaces with Australia, Bahrain, China, Egypt, France, thought leaders to enhance efficiency, Germany, Iran, Singapore, South Africa, competitiveness and business opportunities UK, and USA, as well as institutional for industry through a wide portfolio of partnerships with 344 counterpart specialized services and strategic global organizations in 129 countries, CII serves linkages. It also provides a platform for as a reference point for Indian industry and consensus-building and networking on the international business community. key issues. Extending its agenda beyond business, CII facilitates corporate initiatives for integrated and inclusive development across diverse domains. The CII theme for 2017-18, India@75: Inclusive. Ahead. Responsible emphasizes Industry’s role in partnering Government to accelerate India’s growth and development. The focus will be on key enablers such as job creation; skill development and training; affirmative action; women parity; new models of development; sustainability; corporate social responsibility, governance and transparency. At PwC Australia our purpose is We’re a network of firms in 157 countries to build trust in society and solve with more than 223,000 people who important problems. are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services.

DO NOT PRINT General Info General Info The Australia India Leadership Other contact details and Dialogue will take place in the Lower information: Lobby of the Hotel Taj Mahal in the Diwaan-i-Am Room. Hotel Taj Mahal Number One, Man Singh Road A help desk will be available in the New Delhi India 110011 foyer should you require any assistance Tel: +91 11 6656 6162 during the day of the conference on Monday 22 January 2018. Australian High Commission 1/50 G, Shantipath, Chanakyapuri Main Contacts for AILD: New Delhi, India 110021 Tel: +91 11 4139 9900 Marianna Sarris www.india.embassy.gov.au AILD Coordinator DFAT Emergency Number Australia India Institute + 61 2 6261 3305 m: +61 401 098 520 e: [email protected] Australia India Institute @ Delhi Karen Barker B3/70 Safdarjung Enclave Australia India Institute New Delhi, India 110029 m: +61 478 403 957 Tel: +91-9910404076 e: [email protected] Australian Consulate-General Vinod Mirchandani (Mumbai) Australia India Institute @ Delhi Plot C 38-39, Bandra Kurla Complex, m: +91 98202 94705 Opp MCA Cricket Club, Level 10, e: [email protected] A Wing, Crescenzo Building, G Block, Mumbai - 400 051 INDIA Sujata Sudarshan Tel: +91 022 6757 4900 CII Confederation of Indian Industry m: +91 99101 59917 DO NOT PRINT e: [email protected] Australian Consulate General (Chennai) 49/50L,9th Floor, Express Chambers Express Avenue Estate Whites Road Royapettah, Chennai 600014 Tamil Nadu, India Tel: +91-44 4592 1300

India’s country code is 91 For calls from India to Australia dial: 00 + 61 + area code + telephone number For calls to India from Australia dial: 0011 + 91 + area code + telephone number

Currency Indian rupee (INR) Exchange Rate: AUD $1 = 50 INR (approximately)

General Emergency in India:

112 - Emergency Helpline 100 - Police 102 - Ambulance 101 - Fire 108 - Disaster Management 181 - Women’s Helpline