Invited International Talks (Past 10 years)
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- 2024: Lead speaker on SEZs, Meeting on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Promotion for Intra-regional Trade in the Lancang-Mekong Region, Bangkok, May 13, 2024.
- 2024: Presentation at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad (Online), 7 May 2024.
- 2024: Lead panel speaker on “Reimagining Innovation Systems In The Covid And Post Covid World” (eds) K.J. Joseph and Lakhwinder Singh, organised by Globelics
- 2024: Panel speaker in SEZ session at Tamil Nadu Global Investors’ meet in Chennai, January 8, 2024.
- 2023: Presented my report on cross border zones in Tashkent 8th November 2023
- 2023: Panel speaker in Annual International Conference and Exhibition 2023, World FZO, with a theme “Global Trade 2.0: Zones, An Ecosystem of Trust Driving Prosperity’
- 2023: Invited to deliver lecture at the Industrial Park Leadership Training Program in Shanghai 10-14 July, 2023
- 2022: Policy Forum for developing sustainable economic zones in CAREC countries, Ulaan Baatar 13-15 September 2022
- 2021: (Online) Conditions determining success and failures of SEZs: experiences from PRC, India and other Central Asian countries: Knowledge Sharing Sessions for Mongolia: Developing the Economic Cooperation Zone Project March to April 2021). 31 March 2021.
- 2021: (Online) the report on SEZs in BIMP-EAGA to national secretariates of the respective countries Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and the Philippines)
- 2020: (Online) the report on IMTGT to national secretariates of the respective countries Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand)
- 2019: Presented observations on IMT-GT and BIMP-EAGA at the Senior Officials meeting at Krabi, Thailand
- 2019: ADB nominated speaker on economic corridors at Astana HighLevel CAREC Forum: Balancing Infrastructure Investment with Debt Sustainability 15 May 2019
NurSultan, Kazakhstan - 2019: Regional Seminar for South and Central Asia which was organised by the European Commission Directorate General for International Cooperation and
Development and the European External Action Service - 2018: Expert presentation on SEZs: Shenzhen China 2122 November, 2018
- 2018: Keynote speaker: Free trade zones, Aktau, Kazakhstan
- 2018: Knowledge Corridors: Expert presentation; 17-19 July, Bishkek
- 2018: Strategic policy Frameworks for special economic zones and industrial parks : Bishkek, 21 May 2018 and Astana 23 May, 2018
- 2017: The Poverty impacts of SEZs in Andhra Pradesh : Commonwealth Summit Evolving Development Strategies, December, 2017
- 2016: India’s SEZ Policy flip flops: Lessons to be learned, at SEZ development consultation Forum in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz in Astana, June 27, 2016
- 2016: SEZs: International Best practices, at SEZ development consultation Forum in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz in Astana June 28, 2016
- 2016: Chaired a session and Presented a paper ‘Structural transformation, employment and poverty eradication in developing Countries’ inter-agency expert group meeting on employment and decent work for poverty eradication, in support of the second un decade for the eradication of poverty May 4-6, 2016
- 2015: What went wrong with India’s SEZs?: Economics, Politics or Bureaucracy, The Future of Free Trade Zones, June, 3 and 4 2015 University Paris-Dauphine. France
- 2015: “Conceptual Framework: Success Drivers and Development Outcomes of SEZ” – in the Discussion Workshop on the Draft Background papers for the Special Chapter on Special Economic Zones and Progress on Regional Integration and Cooperation, 12–13 August, 2015
- 2015: Regional integration in South Asia, Lund University
- 2015: Discussant for a session in the Think Tank summit of ADB on Special Economic Zones, Clusters and Economic Corridors Development’ on 22 May 2015.
- 2014: Presentations on SEZs in
- Shenzhen, China;
- Bangkok, Thailand;
- Shanghai, China;
- Astana, Kazakhstan and
- Pyongyang, DPRK
- 2014: Discussant on a study on India-Pakistan trade, 2014 Lahore, Pakistan
