Invited Opening Keynote Address

Pranab Mukherjee, Minister of Finance, India

Speakers:

Geeta Anand, The Wall Street Journal Asia

David Appasany, Chief Communications Office, Sify Ltd.

Paul Beckett, South Asia Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal Asia

Pramod Bhasin, President and CEO, Genpact

Robert O. Blake, Assistant Secretary, South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S.A

David Brearshears, Senior Fellow, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society

John Bussey, Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal

Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Group Limited

Mark Chandler, Director, Office of the Mayor, International Trade & Commerce, City of San Francisco

Tarun Das, Former Chief Mentor, CII; President, Aspen Institute India

Minaakshi S. Dass, Chairperson, Pearey Lal & Sons (E.P) Limited*

Vishakha N. Desai, President, Asia Society

Sheila Dixit, Chief Minister, New Delhi, India

Brooks Entwistle, Managing Director and CEO, Goldman Sachs (India)

Henreitta Holsman Fore, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Holsman International

Victor Z. Gao, Director, China National Association of International Studies*

Ge Dinkun, Asst. Prof. of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

Geng Xiao, Director, Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy*

Goh Chok Tong, Senior Minister, Singapore

Deepak Gupta, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India

H. Harish Hande, CEO, SELCO-India

Robert D. Hormats, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, U.S.A.*

S. Iswaran, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Education, Singapore

Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, Delhi- Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation

Rajiv Lall, Managing Director and CEO, Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC)*

Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Harold McGraw III, Chairman, President and CEO, The McGraw-Hill Companies

Shaheen Mistri*, CEO, Teach for India; Founder, Akansha Foundation

C. Raja Mohan, Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress

Yoshiro Mori, Former Prime Minister, Japan

Pranab Mukherjee, Minister of Finance, India*

Sid Myer, Chief Executive Officer, Yulgilbar Group of Companies

Kamal Nath, Minister for Surface Transport and Highways, India

John Negroponte, Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates

Ton Nu Thi Ninh, President Founding Committee, Tri Viet Centre; Former Vice Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, National Assembly

Koji Omi, Former Minister of Finance, Japan

Deepak Parekh, Founder and Chairman, HDFC

Sachin Pilot, Minister of State, Communications and IT, India

Sam Pitroda, Chairman, National Knowledge Commission*

Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General, ASEAN*

Navi Radjou, Executive Director, Centre for India & Global Business, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State, Environment and Forest, India

Timothy J. Roemer, US Ambassador to India

Rama Sadasivan, Business Development Director, Wall Street Journal India Digital

Manish Sabharwal, CEO, Teamlease Employment Service*

Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of State, Commerce and Industry, India*

Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard*

K C Sivaramakrishnan, Chairman, Centre for Policy Research

Peter Stein, Hong Kong Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal

Simon Tay, Chairman, Singapore Institute of International Affairs

James D. Wolfensohn*, Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn & Company

Penny Wong*, Minister for Climate Change and Water, Australia

Richard Woolcott, Founding Director, Asia Society Australasia Center

Zhang Haibin*, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University

Zhao Xiadi, Director General of Economic Information Dept., China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT)*

* = to be confirmed