Nominated as a member of the negotiating team on services for the India–EU Trade and Investment Agreement, by Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India.
Discussant for the paper on “Foreign Financing in Hospitals in India: Status and Implications” by Prof Rupa Chanda IIM Bangalore, at the workshop organized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfares and WHO on 29th August, New Delhi.
Chaired the Session on “Services: Moving up the Value Chain” at the XXXIV Annual Convention of the Department of Business Economics, University of Delhi, South Campus, October 25-26, 2007.
Presented Paper on “Trade in Services” at the seminar jointly organized by Federation of Indian Export Organisation and Jagannath International Management School, in New Delhi, March 5, 2008.
Discussant on the session on benefits from Deepening Integration: Trade in Services at the ADB-UNCTAD Study on "Quantification of Benefits from Regional Cooperation in South Asia", organized by ADB-UNCTAD and FICCI on March 28, 2008.
Forthcoming - Presentation on Towards a New WTO Architecture: Role of India and China, at the CNIWTO of UBIE-SULS organized Seventh Annual Conference on WTO and China, 24-28 October, 2008, Shanghai, China.
Appointed as Member (Eco) of the Faculty Recruitment Interview Panel for Kendriya Vidyalaya, Govt of India in September 2008
Presentation on Liberalisation in Services Trade: Domestic Regulation Vs Market Access, at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS, NUS) Seminar, 28 August, 2008, Singapore.
Discussant for session on Effect of International Trade on Domestic Inequality: Special Reference to India, at the CUTS International (CITEE) and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) organised First National Consultation under the “Grassroots Reachout & Networking in India on Trade & Economics (GRANITE-Phase II) Project”, 2 July 2008, New Delhi.
Presentation on Gains from Liberalising Trade in Services: Learning from the Indian Experience, presented at World Economy Research Institute’s Annual Conference on “Competitiveness in the Service Sector – Establishing New Advantages in Poland and the European Union”, 12-13 June 2008, Warsaw, Poland.
Appointed as India- ICRIER Focal Point for South Asia Network of Economic Institutes (SANEI)
Presented paper on Changing Consumption pattern: Opportunity for Food processing at the Seventh India-Korea Dialogue held in Seoul on 22-25 October 2007.
Coordinated as Focal Point from ICRIER, India in the Eighth Annual SANEI conference held at Kathmandu, Nepal along with the main organisers IIDS Nepal and PIDE Islamabad, 31 August - 01 September, 2007.
Delivered the key-note address on “Horticulture as an industry in India” at the Horticulture conference organised by Maharashta Chamber of Commerce, Industry and agriculture at Mumbai on March 14, 2008
Appointed as Member of the Governing Body of a college of Delhi University (2008-09).
Presented a seminar titled “Financial Inclusion and Development: A Cross Country Analysis” at Madras School of Economics, Chennai, September 19, 2008.
Presented a seminar titled “Index of Financial Inclusion” at Institute of Financial Management and Research, Chennai, September 18, 2008.
Presented “Financial Inclusion and Development: A Cross Country Analysis” in the ‘Conference on Equality, Inclusion and Human Development’, September 10-13, 2008, organised by HDCA and IHD, New Delhi.
Presented “Financial Inclusion in India: an overview” in the Indo-Pak conference on ‘Economic Opportunity, Financial Innovation and Socio-economic Development in India and Pakistan’ Feb 8-10, 2008 organised by ShARE DSE at Delhi School of Economics, Delhi.
Presented “Index of Financial Inclusion” in ‘10th Money and Finance Conference in Indian Economy’, Jan 18 – 19, 2008, organised by IGIDR, in Mumbai.
Presentation at the meeting with the commerce secretary of India and Indonesia on 'Indonesia-India Joint Study Group on the feasibility of Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA)' in Jakarta, Indonesia on 30-31 October 2007
Presented the paper titled “Linking the Market to Community for Universal Health Insurance programs for India: Rationale, Issues and Challenges” at the BIMTECH Insurance Summit-2008 on 26th-27th September 2008 organized by the Birla Institute at PHD Chamber of Commerce, New Delhi.
Presented the paper titled “Towards a Community-Private-Public Partnership model of Health Insurance for India” at the ASSOCHAM Health Insurance and Medical Care Summit-2008 on 27th-28th August 2008, New Delhi.
Discussant for the papers titled 1) “Ranbaxy - Daiichi Sankyo deal - What impact will the deal have on the Indian pharmaceutical industry?” by Ms. Atsuko Kamiike, and 2) “Evolution of Corporate Cultures: A Theoretical Extension and Evidence from Japanese Companies in India and Thailand” by Mr. Makoto Nagaishi, at the workshop on Reflections on Select Issues in Indian Economyby Young Japanese Scholars by Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF), Japan and ICRIER, on August 25, 2008, New Delhi.
Delivered the keynote address at the GE Early Health Summit, New Delhi (September 25, 2007)
Presentation on Non-Communicable Diseases and Public Health Policy in India at the second Early Health Summit organized by GE Healthcare at Taj Residency, Bangalore , 26 September, 2008.
Presented a Paper titled Indian Legal System applicable to Corporate Governance: In Comparison in the Third Asia Link Workshop in Law and Economics as a part of the activities under the Asia Link Program on Human Resource Development in Law and Economics in India and Europe organized at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), 21-30 July 2008, Mumbai .
Delivered lecture on methodology for decoding unit-level National Sa m ple Survey (NSS) data of the National Sa m ple Survey Organization, at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee on June 12, 2008.
