16 key foreign speakers at the Sri Lanka Economic Summit
View(s):A galaxy of foreign speakers including the Indian government’s chief economic advisor and what advice they would offer to the Sri Lankan community is the key feature of a business discussion happening in Colombo next week.
These speakers are taking part in the Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2017 under the theme “Execute – Transform – Realise” organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on July 25-26 at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo.
A chamber media release said that Dr. Arvind Subramanian, the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India will be the most high profile foreign speaker on stage and he will be the first foreign speaker, who will speak at the summits inauguration. The rest of the speakers will take part across the eight thematic sessions of the summit, which will be held across two-days. The other listed speakers are Dr. Amitendu Palit, Senior Research Fellow, Research Lead of Trade and Economic Policy at the National University of Singapore; Dr. Wen Zha, Associate Professor of the China Foreign Affairs University; Kamal Quadir, Chief Executive Officer of Bkash Ltd; Shashank Srivastava, Managing Director, WSD Consulting and former CEO of Qatar Financial Centre; Hang Tian, Deputy General Manager of China Merchant Port Holdings Company Ltd; Sanjay Ganesh Ubale, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Realty and Infrastructure Ltd; Dr. Qu Jain, Vice President of the China Development Institute and Expert Committee Member of the Ministry of Commerce of China; Dr. Rae Kwon Chung, Former Principal Advisor on Climate Change, Executive Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations; Ralph Van Doorn, Senior Country Economist for Sri Lanka and the Maldives of The World Bank; Ms. Elizabeth Ward, Special Negotiator, Office of Trade Negotiations, Department of Foreign Affairs and trade of Australia; Dr. Harsha Vardhana Singh, Executive Director of Brookings India, a policy research body and Eric Miller, President of Rideau Potomac Strategy Group
Colombo-based speakers include Dr. Ganeshan Wignaraja, Chair, Global Economy Programme of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute; Arun Miranda, Chairman & Managing Director of Astrotech Steels Pvt Ltd and Managing Director of Trinity Steels Pvt Ltd; Sunil Sethi, Managing Director, Fonterra Brands Lanka and Jim McCabe; Chief Executive Officer of the Standard Chartered Bank of Sri Lanka.