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II International Summit for SMEs, with Gunter Verheugen, Vice President, EU Commission; Mario Ohoven, President European Confederation of Associations of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises; Fernando Augusto Morais, President of Portuguese National Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Alfandega Congress Centre, Porto, Portugal, May 9, 2009. |
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India and the Global Economic Crisis: Panel Discussion with Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Singapore and Thai Ambassadors to the EU. Centre Européen de Rechérches Internationales et Stratégiques (CERIS), Brussels, March 7, 2009. |
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India After Mumbai 26/11: Scenarios. India Forum, Caen, January
7,
2009. |
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Think Business, Think India - Scenarios 2010-2020 (with Digby Lord Jones of Birmingham, Minister of State for Trade and Investment): TiE, Arena and Convention Centre, Liverpool, October
2,
2008. |
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Ready to Roar - India's Hottest Business Sectors in 2015: 4D Investments, Paris, France, September
17,
2008. |
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Rising Elephant, Rumbling Mahouts - The Ugly Indian: Vistas Club, Berlin, Germany, July
8,
2008. |
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The EU-India Biotech Deadend, Lessons from Muddled Dependencies: Case Studies of Momenta and GPC, ProActa, Dusseldorf, May
21,
2008. |
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India's Budget 2008: Reading the Tea Leaves, Europe 2020, Luxembourg, March
20,
2008. |
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India and the BRICs - Leveraging Opportunity from Difference: 24th annual Chair Van Melkebeke. Panel with Joep Konings (Dean, Faculty of Economics, K.U.Leuven), Hiddo Houben (External Trade Cabinet, European Commission), and Baron Paul Buysse (Chairman of the Board of Bekaert), Flanders Business School, Antwerp, Belgium, March
6,
2008. |
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India-EU relations - Briefing for visiting Indian journalists: International Press Centre, Brussels, Belgium, February 25, 2008. |
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From Sub-2,000 Euro cars to Ferrari, Jaguar and beyond - Tata's drive to be the 21st century GE: 4D Investments, Paris, France, January 22, 2008. |
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Wallonia, India and the World - Panel with Jean-Claude Marcourt, Minister for Economic Affairs and Foreign Trade: CreaWAL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November
14,
2007. |
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The India-US Nuclear Agreement - Global Military and Energy Implications: Briefing for MEPs, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, November
9,
2007. |
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British SMEs - Think Global, Act India: Thames Valley Innovation Network, Oxford, United Kingdom, October
18,
2007. |
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Making
Sense of the New India: Institute
of Directors, Whitehall, London, October
17,
2007. |
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Rising
India - Insiders' Insights for Europe: Moderator at Roundtable
with Members of
the Indian Parliament - Dr. K. Kasturirangan, Mr. Dinesh Trivedi, Mr. Tariq Anwar, Mr. Lakshman Singh and Mrs. Preneet Kaur, The Centre, Brussels, September 19, 2007. |
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Brabant
Meets the Asian Challenge: Panel
with Jean-Luc Dehaene (Member of
the European Parliament and former
Prime Minister of Belgium), David
O’Sullivan, Director-General
Trade (EU Commission), Ruud
Vreeman (Mayor of Tilburg) and
Martin Hinoul (former Head of
Cabinet Economy and Foreign Policy,
Flemish Government), European
Parliament, Brussels, June
6, 2007. |
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The
Markets 2020, What Will Happen: Panel
with Mark Minevich, former
director for Asian affairs
at the World Economic Forum,
and leading Swedish writer Johan
Norberg, GLOBE
Forum, Stockholm, Sweden, April
20, 2007. |
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When
Elephants do the Leapfrog -
India's Ambitious Biofuels and
Renewable Energy Program : LUFPIG-GLOBE
Conference with MEPs Thijs Berman
and Chris Davies, and Rosário
Bento Pais, Member of the Cabinet
of Agriculture Commissioner
Mariann Fischer Boel, European
Parliament, Brussels, March
6, 2007. |
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Three
Years On - Revisiting the Eight
Myths which concealed the Rising
Elephant: Lisbon Business
School, Lisbon, February 15,
2007. |
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Leveraging
development: The 800-pound Siamese
twin of research: India Forum,
Luxembourg, November 28, 2006. |
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India:
A Rising Technology Superpower (Marvel,
Mystery, Puzzle or More ?):
Associação
Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento
das Comunicações, Lisbon, November
14-16, 2006. |
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Is
Multinational R&D Heading East
? Roundtable Discussion, The
Centre, Brussels (with Charles
Leadbeater of Demos and Kurt
Vandenberghe, Deputy Head of
Cabinet of EU Commissioner Janez
Potocnik), November
9, 2006. |
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ChIndia
Inside Out, Rolled Forward:
ESIC, Luxembourg, November 4, 2006. |
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From
Rigidity to Reform and Renaissance: A
bird's eye view of India and the world
1975 - 2020. Wolfsberg Forum,
UBS, Ermatingen, Switzerland, October
24, 2006. |
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The
Grave Crisis of Globalization:
Evian Group / IMD, Raffles Le
Montreux Palace, Switzerland,
October 13-15, 2006. |
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Private
reception for former US Vice
President Al Gore, Progressio
Foundation, Brussels, October 8,
2006 . |
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Índia:
Conhecer a potência tecnológica
emergente. Conference
accompanying launch of Portuguese
edition of Rising Elephant,
AERLIS, Oeiras, Portugal, September
26, 2006. |
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Does
Europe really mean Business ?
Financial Times, Brussels,
September 12, 2006. |
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Real
estate and energy in India -
sunrise sectors or dodgy bets ?
Spanish financial services group,
Barcelona, July 7, 2006. |
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Relocation:
Is there a way from zero sum to
win-win ? Economic and Social
Committee, European Union,
Brussels, June
28-29, 2006. |
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ABN-Amro and the
teachings of
Indian IT. Fortune 100 corporation,
London, June 19, 2006. |
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Why are Indian Institute of Management MBAs starting at 200,000 Euro salaries? BDI working group, Aachen, April 21, 2006. |
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India reshaping the world: 5, 10, 15 and 20 year scenarios ? Fortune 100 oil corporation, London, March 24, 2006. |
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Business Houses in India: The new force of old
players. German engineering corporation, Munich, February 20, 2006. |
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What is going on with IT wages in India? IndiaForum, Cologne, January 17, 2006. |
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Please Sir,
may I have some more. The outlook for luxury goods in India. IndiaForum, Luxembourg, December 20, 2005. |
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Perspectives on renewable energy technologies in India. European Parliament, Brussels, November 23, 2005. |
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Can India "do" IT products? University of Metz, November 22, 2005. |
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Understanding India's Indianness: Imperative for business success.
Lhoist Group, Limelette, October 29, 2005. |
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The sublime silliness of near-shoring. IndiaForum, Luxembourg, October 18, 2005. |
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Rural India: opportunity or liability ? IndiaForum, Cologne, September 20, 2005. |
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Trends and evolutions in Indian offshoring. Haasrode Science Park, June 23, 2005. |
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India and Europe- Blind date or first date
? EU Technopolicy Forum, Helsinki, June 17, 2005. |
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What's this India business? Leuven Inc., June 7, 2005. |
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After
Indian IT: What next for the
world ? Copenhagen Business School, May 23, 2005. |
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Roundtable on India and China (with Secretary General of tech industry federation Agoria and top executives of eight Belgian companies), Trends Roundtable, Agoria,, Brussels, April 7, 2005. |
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The Congress budget - Continuity or break.? IndiaForum, Cologne, March 15, 2005. |
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India's Indianness: strength or weakness? Pavanee Educational and Cultural Trust,
Bhubaneswar, December 30, 2004. |
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Destiny or will ? How India shapes the new millennium. Academy of Corporate Governance, Hyderabad, December 16, 2004. |
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What is Rising Elephant about and why I wrote it. World Economic
Forum (India Economic Summit), New Delhi, December 7, 2004. [Launch of Macmillan edition of 'Rising Elephant']. |
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Eight myths about India that every MBA student needs to unlearn. Thunderbird University, Archamps/Geneva, November 22, 2004. |