NCAER-ADBI-PRI Tokyo Dialogue

PARTNERS TOGETHER: INDIA AND JAPAN MEETING INDIA’S SKILLS AND JOBS CHALLENGE Tuesday, October 31, 2017

ADBI Conference Room, Kasumigaseki Building 8F, 3-2-5 kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6008, Japan

[Speakers will speak 20 minutes and discussants 5 minutes; remaining time 30 minutes for discussion and Q&A]

9:30 - 9:55 REGISTRATION

9:55 - 10:10 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

Toshinori Doi (President, PRI), Shekhar Shah (Director-General, NCAER), & Naoyuki Yoshino (Dean, ADBI)

10:10 -10:15 PHOTO SESSION Session 1 Growth, Investment and Trade Challenges: India and Japan 10:15 -12:00 Chair: Chul Ju Kim (Deputy Dean, ADBI)

Speakers: Ajit Ranade (Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group) Shujiro Urata (Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda

University) Vikrant Sharma (General Manager, Global Business Division, Bank of

Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ) Discussants: Toshinori Doi (President, PRI)

Rajat Nag (Distinguished Fellow, NCAER, by VC) & Rajesh Chadha (Senior Fellow, NCAER)

12:00-13:30 Lunch and Signing Ceremony (MOI between NCAER and PRI) Session 2 Skilling India and promoting entrepreneurship to reap India’s demographic

dividend 13:30-14:55 Chair: Shekhar Shah (Director-General, NCAER)

Speakers: K.P. Krishnan (Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Government of India, by VC)

Hisashi Takeuchi (Division General Manager, Global Business Administration & Planning Division/India Automobile Department, Suzuki Motor Corporation)

Discussants: Takashi Shimada (President, Indo Business Centre, Ltd.) Atul Satija (CEO and Founder, Nudge Foundation)

14:55 -15:15 Break

Session 3 Connecting India: Implications for infrastructure, digital, and urban development 15:15-16:40 Chair: Toshiro Nishizawa (Senior Visiting Scholar, PRI (Project Professor,

Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo)) Speakers: Vishwas Udgirkar (Partner, Infrastructure & Government, Deloitte India)

Naoyuki Yoshino (Dean, ADBI) Kyosuke Inada (Senior Director and Director, South Asia Division 1, South

Asia Department Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)) Discussants: Prerna Prabhakar (Associate Fellow, NCAER)

16:40-16:50 Closing Remarks Shekhar Shah (Director-General, NCAER) & Toshinori Doi (President, PRI) 17:00- 18:00 Reception

WELCOME REMARKS Naoyuki Yoshino (Dean, ADBI)