PBM 2009
PBM 2009: Speaker Profiles – Part:2
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Narayan Ramachandran is Country Head of Morgan Stanley in India, leading all of the Group’s businesses. He returned to India in 2006 as Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
Prior to these roles, Narayan was the Head and co-lead portfolio manager of Morgan Stanley’s Global Emerging Markets and Global Asset Allocation teams, managing over $25 billion in assets. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1996 and has 20 years of investment experience. Before joining the firm, he was a managing director at Rogers Casey (now CRA Rogers Casey).
In addition, Narayan was director of research at Rogers Casey and president of its investment advisory subsidiary. Previously, he was a research associate at Goldman Sachs. Narayan has written articles for the academic and trade press, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Narayan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
He is a director of Impax Corporation and Dyansys Inc.
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Meera H. Sanyal has been a professional banker for the past 25 years. She is currently the Chairperson and Country Executive for ABN AMRO Bank (now RBS) in India
Previously, as an Investment banker in ABN AMRO, she has worked both in India ABN AMRO’s Global Shared Services Company.
An area very close to her heart is the banks’ Corporate Social Responsibility activities. The bank finances over 700,000 women who live below the poverty line. Through the activities of the Bank’s Foundation, which she chairs, the foundation has undertaken several projects that aim both, to alleviate poverty and to conserve bio-diversity (especially in endangered tiger habitats), promote watersheds and help marginal farmers in degraded land areas.
Meera was named the Woman Banker of the Year in 2006 by Indian Merchants Chamber and she has also been bestowed with AIESEC Hall of Fame award by AIESEC International Congress, Poland
In November, 2008, she has awarded the prestigious Karamveer Puraskar award for being the best Corporate Executive Citizen of 2008. In April, 2009, Meera contested the Lok Sabha parliamentary elections as an independent candidate from South Mumbai .Her hobbies include Sailing, Reading
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PBM 2009: Speaker Profiles – Part:1
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November!
Gurcharan Das is an author, management guru and public intellectual. He is a regular speaker to the managements of the world’s largest corporations. He was CEO, Procter & Gamble India and later Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). Prior to P&G, he was Chairman and Managing Director of Richardson Hindustan Limited.
Gurcharan Das graduated from
In 1995, after a 30-year career in 6 countries, he took early retirement to become an author. He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘why be good?’ His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence
He writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Eenadu, Sakal and periodic guest columns for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek. His other literary works include a novel, A Fine Family, a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three English Plays (Oxford)
Dr. Hasit Joshipura is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from VJTI – Bombay University School of Management IIT Mumbai.
After having spent about three years with the Tata Administrative Services, Hasit has spent about 16 years with the Unilever Group of companies in India and held positions of increasing responsibility in commercial, sales, marketing and business management functions. He joined the pharmaceutical business of Johnson & Johnson Ltd., as President & Executive Director in October 2001, a position he held until August 2006. Hasit was also the Chair person for the Corporate Contributions Programme, as well as the lead for Government Affairs for the Johnson & Johnson group of businesses in India
In October 2006, Hasit was appointed Vice President, South Asia and Managing Director India with GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (GSK). He is also Chairman of the boards of GSK Bangladesh and GSK Sri Lanka. Hasit formally took over on 1st January, 2007 .
He has been recently elected on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is also a member of the VJTI Senate.
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Prerana Business Meet 2009
Date: 5th November
Venue: NITIE-Auditorium
Topic for Deliberation:
Demystifying the Reforms Enigma
the How, Why & Why Not towards Laissez-Faire?
Nearly two decades after embarking on the process of Economic Reforms, India now stands at the cross roads, having to make a choice between sustaining the Gradualism of the 90’s & the radical aspirations of India Inc. Reforms in India were offset in the wake of an exceptionally severe balance of payments crisis in 1991.
Since then the government had signaled a systemic shift to a more open economy with greater reliance upon market forces, a larger role for the private secto including foreign investment, and a restructuring of the role of the government. India’s economic performance in the post reform era has been superlative, with the growth rate of the GDP being among the highest in world. But the recent economic slowdown raises some serious questions over the tangibility of the existing Reform process.
Rivaling schools of thought have documented parallel reasons for the correct course of action. The sturdiness of the Indian Banking sector during the slowdown is being shown as a prime example of the fact that the pro-private lobby can err too. On the other hand the lack of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) & loss making Public Sector Units (PSU’s) are being used to retort the communist manifesto. This tug of war between ideologies has resulted in a process which can aptly be described as, creating a strong consensus for weak reforms!
Apart from drawing consensus between the Left-Right divide, there are a host of other issues that the Reforms Agenda should address. Industrial & Trade Policy, Agriculture & Financial sector reforms, Infrastructure & Social sector development are a few among a plethora of areas craving for immediate attention.
The slowdown of the present provides itself as an opportunity for the future. The direction our Reform process takes at this juncture would be pivotal in determining the future of this Nation.
Over the years, we have tried to invite stalwarts, path makers and visionaries from the industry who are currently paving the way for a new world-class Brand India by moving up the ladder. It is our sincere belief that only the people who have led the economy through tempestuous times to conquer the bastions of success can show us the path ahead.
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