India Initiative The Initiative, founded in November 2015, builds on Georgetown University’s core strengths—academic excellence, location in Washington, D.C., and Jesuit mission of service to the world—to advance research and teaching around India and world affairs and create a platform for high-level dialogue among American and Indian leaders from government, business, civil society, and the academy.

India’s economic potential, democratic culture, and strategic importance make it a key player across a range of global challenges, including politics and identity, economic participation and innovation, technology and communication, environment and energy, and security. The India Initiative, a university-wide effort centered in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and its Asian Studies Program, builds knowledge and fosters dialogue around these and other issues of critical importance for India, the United States, and the world.

1 | Georgetown University India Initiative 2016 Distinguished Fellow As a 2016 India Initiative distinguished fellow, Rajdeep Sardesai of the India Today Group shoots a television interview with Georgetown students about the U.S. election.

World Bank Report Launch Stuti Khemani, a senior economist at the World Bank, launches her report, “Making Politics Work for Development,” at Georgetown.

The View from New Delhi MP Jay Panda and MP Anurag Thakur give a talk at an initiative- sponsored event at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace during the FICCI Indo-U.S. Forum of Parliamentarians.

Low-Carbon Agriculture Richie Ahuja, Asia director at the Environmental Defense Fund, gives a lecture on climate-smart agriculture in rural South Asia at the McCourt School of Public Policy.

The Georgetown University India Initiative brings together Georgetown “ faculty and other experts from across sectors and around the world to advance research, teaching, and intellectual exchange on India, which has emerged as a key player across a range of global challenges in recent years. ” - John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University

2 INDIA INITIATIVE DIRECTOR INDIA Irfan Nooruddin is director of the Georgetown University India INNOVATION Initiative, the Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Indian Politics, and STUDIO the faculty chair at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is currently affiliated with Lokniti: Programme for Comparative INDIA Democracy in New Delhi, India, and has been a fellow at the Woodrow INNOVATION Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His STUDIO research focuses on economic development, democratization, The India Innovation Studio: and civil conflict. He co-authored Elections in Hard Times (2016, Designing for Droughts is a Cambridge University Press) with studio-based course taught T. E. Flores. through a multidisciplinary lens in Georgetown’s Walsh School

Irfan Nooruddin, Director of Foreign Service. The class India Initiative, Georgetown University operates in partnership with government and civil society stakeholders to design, prototype, and implement a solution to a development problem facing India. Each year, the course examines a different challenge. This year, the topic is drought, which is particularly timely given indications that a severe drought is underway in Maharashtra.

3 | Georgetown University India Initiative INDIA INNOVATION STUDIO

top left INDIA Professor Nooruddin describes India’s constitutional framework to the Droughts studio. top right As part of the Georgetown Leadership Seminar 2016, BJP politician Madhukeshwar INNOVATION Desai gives a lecture to students in INAF-311. SELECT STUDIO COURSES ANTH-185 The India Innovation Studio is team taught in Global modules led by Professors Irfan Nooruddin and Mark South Asia Giordano. In fall 2016, students explored the political and hydrological dimensions of drought. The spring HIST-129 semester focuses on the policy, economic, and ethical Modern dimensions of potential solutions, which students will South Asia design working in close collaboration with experts in the field, stakeholders, and the Maharashtra government. INAF-287 The design-thinking component of the course exposes Politics of India students to the nature and complexity of development problems and encourages them to identify solutions INAF-311/312 that are cohesive and multidimensional by visually India Innovation mapping solutions. Studio: Designing for Droughts During the duration of the course, students work in groups, identifying specific aspects of the drought INAF-431 they will focus on and attempt to solve. Select students South Asia: will be offered the opportunity to travel to , Issues of War/Peace located in the state of Maharashtra, during the summer of 2017 to present policy recommendations to high-level THEO-051 officials in the Maharashtra government. Hinduism Today

4 FACULTY 2016 COMMITTEE FELLOWS Paul Almedia McDonough School of Business The Georgetown University Vicki Arroyo India Initiative (GUII) Distin- Georgetown Law Center guished Fellows Program brings Uwe Brandes two influential public figures School of Continuing Studies from India to Georgetown’s Ananya Chakravarti Georgetown College campus for a week of guest Uday Chandra lectures, public and private Georgetown University in Qatar roundtables, faculty meetings, Raj Desai and public events. The goal Walsh School of Foreign Service of the program is to deepen James Feinerman Georgetown’s engagement Georgetown Law Center with those on the frontlines of Mark Giordano Walsh School of Foreign Service policymaking and innovation Victoria Jennings in India. In 2016, the initiative School of Medicine hosted two of India’s most Shareen Joshi prominent journalists, Rajdeep Walsh School of Foreign Service Sardesai and . Oriana Skylar Mastro Walsh School of Foreign Service Stanley Nollen McDonough School of Business Makarand Paranjape Georgetown College Coilin Parsons Georgetown College Henry Schwarz Georgetown College Chandan Vaidya Georgetown College Sona Vasudevan Georgetown University Medical Center Rajesh Veeraraghavan Sagarika Ghose, Consulting Editor, Walsh School of Foreign Service Times of India R. Kent Weaver McCourt School of Public Policy 2016 GUII Distinguished Fellow FELLOWS Rajdeep Sardesai

Rajdeep Sardesai is a consulting editor at the India Today Group with 28 years of journalistic experience in print and television. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the IBN-18 Network, which includes CNN-IBN, IBN7, and IBN-Lokmat. Prior to launching the IBN network, Sardesai was a managing editor of NDTV 24 x 7 and NDTV India. He has won more than 100 national and international awards for journalism, including the Padma Shri (fourth highest civilian honor) in 2008. During his career, he has covered major national and international stories, specializing in national politics. His book 2014: The Election that Changed India is national bestseller. He has a bachelor of arts, bachelor of civil law, and an M.A. from University College, Oxford.

Rajdeep Sardesai, Consulting Editor, India Today

GUII Distinguished Fellow Sagarika Ghose

Sagarika Ghose is an Indian journalist, news anchor, and author. During her 26-year career, she has worked at , Outlook, and the Indian Express. She was the deputy editor and a prime-time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN. Ghose has won several awards in journalism and is the author of two novels, The Gin Drinkers and Blind Faith. She is now consulting editor at the Times of India and hosts the show Capital View on ET NOW. She has received numerous awards for journalism, including the ITA Best Anchor Award from the Indian Television Academy in 2013. She holds a B.A. in history from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and an M. Phil. from St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

6 SEED GRANTS 2016 AWARDS Collaborations Between Georgetown and the Indian The India Initiative holds a yearly Institute of Science in Bangalore university-wide competition for Richard Weiss, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown College collaborative grants designed to bring together faculty with Indian Measuring the Impact of Real Estate colleagues to advance research on Investment Trusts in India Matthew Cypher, Edward Walter, U.S. and Indian approaches to and Sunil Madan, McDonough global issues. School of Business

Research topics typically concentrate on Rethinking India's Rise to Global one of the initiative’s key areas of focus, Prominence: Challenges and including politics and identity, economic Opportunities for Culture and Identity Henry Schwarz, Coílín Parsons, participation and innovation, technology and Ananya Chakravarti, and communication, environment and Departments of English and energy, and security. History, Georgetown College

Georgetown Hindu Chaplain Brahmachari Sharan and Protestant Chaplain Brandon Harris discuss campus religious diversity with the Fulbright-Nehru International Administrators Seminar at Georgetown.

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