BUDGET-2021:
WHERE FROM HERE THE ECONOMY ANALYSIS
Distinguished Panelists: Mr Mohan Guruswamy Former Advisor to Finance Minister
6:00 PM
Welcome & Introductory Remarks Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director
Mr Arun Kumar Malcolm S Adiseshiah Chair Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
Madras Management Association
Panelists Mr Mohan Guruswamy
Distinguished Moderator: Air Marshal M Matheswaran (Retd), AVSM VM Ph.D Chairman & President The Peninsula Foundation, Chennai
Former Advisor to Finance Minister
Mr Arun Kumar Malcolm S Adiseshiah Chair Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
Moderator
WEDNESDAY
Air Marshal M Matheswaran (Retd) AVSM VM Ph.D
FEB 3, 2021 | 6.00 PM
Chairman & President The Peninsula Foundation, Chennai
Q&A Session 7:30 PM
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DISTINGUISHED PANELISTS
MOHAN GURUSWAMY
DISTINGUISHED MODERATOR
AIR MARSHAL M MATHESWARAN (RETD) AVSM VM PH.D
ARUN KUMAR Arun Kumar, joined JNU in 1984 and retired
Air Marshal M Matheswaran, an Air Force
undergraduate education in Mathematics,
as
Veteran,
Physics and Chemistry at Nizam College,
Professor
Hyderabad, India. He has post-graduate
Studies
qualifications
University
Mohan
Guruswamy
in
had
Public
his
Policy,
the
Sukhamoy in
the
and
Chakravarty
Centre
Planning,
in
2015.
for
is
International Affairs and Management. He
Malcolm
is
Institute of Social Sciences.
an
alumnus
of
the
John
F.Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University and
the
Graduate
School
Stanford
University.
With
of
an
Business,
interesting
career path that included teaching, senior management,
journalism
and
in
government as the Advisor to the Finance Minister with the rank of Secretary to the Government of India, he now heads the Centre for Policy Alternatives, New Delhi. Dr Mohan Guruswamy is widely travelled in India and abroad, and is the author of
Economic
Jawaharlal
He
Adiseshiah
Chair
Nehru
currently
Chair
is
the
founder
Chairman
and
President of TPF. He is the former Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (DCIDS-
the
Policy, Plans, and Force Development) at HQ
in
IDS – Tri Services Command and was the
Professor
Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO–Deputy C-inC) of the Eastern Air Command earlier. The
He has a Ph.D. in Economics from JNU and a
Masters
in
Physics
from
Princeton
University USA and Delhi University. He is a gold medalist of Delhi Higher Secondary Board
and
specialized Public
Delhi in
University.
Development
Finance
and
Macroeconomics.
He
has
Economics,
Public was
He
Policy
a
part
and
of
the
team to study the black economy for CBDT (1982-85).
Air Marshal has had an active service of 39 years in the Indian Air Force. Commissioned as a fighter pilot in 1975, he has flown more than
40
types
of
aircraft
with
vast
operational and research experience. He is a
graduate
of
the
IAF’s
elite
Fighter
Weapons Establishment, TACDE (Tactics and Air
Combat
Development
Establishment),
and also an Experimental Test Pilot from the prestigious Flight Test Establishment, ASTE
The
the
in
Black
Issues
in
Economy
Essays
in
Demonetization and GST. He authored the
command and staff appointments such as
Foreign Policy and Security Issues; India
Alternative Budgets for 1993-94 and 1994-
operations
China
and
95 which proposed alternative economic
Information
Beyond; and the latest being Chasing the
policies for the country. He was a member
Operations,
Dragon: Will India Catch-up with China?
of
Requirement, and Concepts and Doctrines
He is a frequent commentator on national
Economic Survey for 2 decades.
recent
India’s
being
Looming
Agriculture;
Development;
and
The
India:
India’s
Relations:
World:
The
international
Border
TV
Crisis
Issue
and
Radio
on
matters of current interest and writes a widely read and disseminated newspaper and
magazine
Redefining
column.
Poverty,
Backwardness
of
His
papers
on
Income
Inequality,
Bihar,
Economic
Development in West Bengal, FDI in Retail have
been
journals
like
published the
in
well
Economic
regarded
and
Political
Weekly, Seminar and the Journal of Public Policy, UK.
bookspublished Economy,
the
by
Higher
him
on
producing
The
Indian
and
later
Independence,
The
Air
Education,
since
Group
are
(Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment),
several books on policy issues, some of
the
Alternative
for
commanded
Marshal
Air
War
has
the held
involving
Staff
Strategy.
a
number
Space,
Warfare, Air
Establishment.
EW
Maritime
Inspection,
He
was
Air
of
and Air Staff
intimately
involved
He has written extensively on globalization and
on
issues
of
public
policy
both
in
academic journals and in the popular press and contributed to public discussions on policy since 1980. He was the Vice Chair of the
manifesto
drafting
committee
of
National Front in 1989 and the Convener of the
Economics
&
Ecology
Committee
of
AAP in 2013.
with many Defence projects and has been associated
with
many
Indian
military
projects involving the Indian military, DRDO, and the industry. He is a founder member of the Nuclear Command. The Air Marshal has MSc in Military Science from the University of Madras, M Phil and PhD in Defence & Strategic Studies, also from the University of Madras. He is a Senior Fellow and alumnus
He has visited Pavia University, Italy and
of
Humboldt
Universities,
and International Security program. He is an
Germany. UNAM, Mexico awarded him the
Executive Council member of the IDSA – an
Ricardo
in
autonomous think-tank of the MOD. He is a
the
strategic advisor in Defence & Aerospace
the
Business to Indian industries, and is a Senior
pricing of SU30 MKI. He has participated in
Advisor on Defence & Aerospace to FICCI
various social movements, like, on Housing
(Federation
Rights. He was a member of the First Pay
Commerce and Industry). The Air Marshal is
Commission of the Tibetan Government in
a Visiting Faculty at the Naval War College,
Exile.
Goa . He is also an adjunct professor at the
and
Prize
in
Leipzig
Economics
Development
Economics.
group
of
leader
the
for
He
work
was
Committee
for
the
Harvard
Department
of
of
University.
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Kennedy
Indian
School’s
National
Chamber
Geopolitics
in
of
Manipal