| SPEAKERS | | Professor Tommy Koh, Co- Chair, Indian Singapore Strategic Dialogue; and Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of SingaporeAmbassador Gopinath Pillai, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore; and Chairman, Management Board, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
Mr. Jamshyd Godrej, Co- Chair, Indian Singapore Strategic Dialogue and Chairman of the Board, Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Company LimitedDr. C Raja Mohan, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation |
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 | Professor Tommy Koh, Co- Chair, Indian Singapore Strategic Dialogue; and Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Singapore
He was Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York for 13 years. He was Ambassador to the United States of America for 6 years. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Law of NUS. He was also the President of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea. He chaired the Preparatory Committee for and the Main Committee at the Earth Summit. He had served as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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| He was also Singapore’s Chief Negotiator for the USA Singapore Free Trade Agreement. He has chaired two dispute panels for the WTO. In 1984, Yale University conferred on him an honorary degree of doctor of law. Prof Koh received the Elizabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Law in 1996 and was made a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2006. He also received the Great Negotiator Award 2014 from Harvard University on 10 April 2014. |
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 | Ambassador Gopinath Pillai, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore; and Chairman, Management Board, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
Ambassador Gopinath Pillai holds several key public appointments in Singapore. He is the Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of South Asian Studies. He has served as an Ambassador-at-Large in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since August 2008. He is also the Executive Chairman of Savant Infocomm Pte Ltd. Ambassador Pillai was Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Iran between 1990 and 2008 and also served as Singapore’s High Commissioner to Pakistan.
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| Ambassador Pillai’s varied business interests include investments in education, logistics and information technology. He is Founder Chairman of a port-related listed logistics company in India, Gateway Distriparks Ltd, and its subsidiary, Snowman Logistics Ltd and Director of another subsidiary, Gateway Rail Freight Ltd. He is also Director of AEC Education PLC, listed on AIM in London. He is an independent director of Jurong International Holdings Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of JTC. Ambassador Pillai is Deputy Chairman of Ang Mo Kio-Thye Hua Kwan Hospital Limited, a non-government organisation-administered hospital for step-down care. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Indian Heritage Centre project and Chairman of its Concept and Content Sub-committee. Ambassador Pillai has held positions as Chairman of NTUC Fairprice Co-operative Ltd for 10 years; Trustee of NTUC Healthcare Cooperative Ltd; Director of NTUC Choice Homes Co-operative Ltd; and President of the National University of Singapore Society (NUSS). He was made a Distinguished Member of NUSS in 2011. Ambassador Pillai has received several awards, including the Friend of Labour (NTUC 1987); Meritorious Award (NTUC 1990); Friend of MCD from the Ministry of Community Development (1998); and Friend of IT from Singapore Computer Society (2001). The Singapore government has awarded Ambassador Pillai the Public Service Star Award (BBM) in 1999 and BBM (BAR) in the 2009 National Day Awards. The Indian government conferred Ambassador Pillai with the Padma Shri award at the 2012 Republic Day. |
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 | Mr. Jamshyd Godrej, Co- Chair, Indian Singapore Strategic Dialogue and Chairman of the Board, Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited
Mr. Jamshyd N. Godrej is the Chairman of the Board of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. Mr. Godrej is the former Chairman of Ananta Aspen Centre (previously known as Aspen Institute India), Chairman & Trustee of Ananta Centre. He is the President of World Wide Fund for Nature – India. He is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, India Resources Trust and Council on Energy, Environment and Water.
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| He is a Director of World Resources Institute, USA and Director of Global Footprint Network, USA. He is also a Trustee of the Asia Society, USA. He is a member of Toyota Motor’s Global Advisory Board and Asia Pacific Regional Advisory Committee. He is the Past President of Confederation of Indian Industry and also the Past President of the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association. Mr. Godrej is the Chairman of the CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre. The Centre is housed in a LEED Platinum demonstration building which is the first green building in India and the greenest building in the world at the time when it was rated. The Green Business Centre is a Centre of Excellence for green buildings, energy efficiency, energy conservation, non-conventional energy sources, water policy, water conservation, etc. Godrej and Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. manufactures and markets refrigerators; washing machines; air conditioners; office furniture; home furniture; security equipment for banks (such as safes, strong room doors, bank lockers, etc.) and for commercial establishments and homes; locks and latches, forklift trucks and warehousing equipment; process equipment for chemical, petrochemical, refineries and allied industries; precision tools for sheet metal, zinc, aluminium; real estate development. The Godrej group are leaders in home appliances, consumer durables, office equipment, industrial products, consumer products and services. Mr. Godrej is an ardent yachting enthusiast and has done extensive cruising along the west coast of India, the Baltic & North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea. The President of India conferred on Mr. Godrej the “Padma Bhushan” on 3rd April 2003. |
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 | Dr. C Raja Mohan, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
Dr. C Raja Mohan is a Distinguished Fellow at ORF and is leading the Strategic Studies Initiative of the Foundation. He is also a foreign affairs columnist for ‘The Indian Express’, a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore, and a Non-Resident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. Earlier he was a Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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| He was the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, Washington DC during 2009-10. Dr. Mohan served as the Diplomatic Editor and the Washington Correspondent of ‘The Hindu’ and the Strategic Affairs Editor of ‘The Indian Express’. His area of expertise includes India’s Foreign and Defence policies, Asian Security, Arms Control & Disarmament, and the Impact of Rising Powers on the Global Order. |
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| MODERATOR |
 | Dr. Nitin Desai, Former Under-Secretary General, United Nations
Mr. Nitin Desai, a graduate of LSE, taught economics at two UK Universities, worked briefly in the private sector, had a long stint as a government official in India and then joined the UN in 1990 from where he retired in 2003. In India he was in the Planning Commission (1973-88) and later in the Ministry of Finance as the Chief Economic Adviser (1988-90). In the UN, where he was Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, his major work was the organization of a series of global summits, notably the Rio Earth Summit (1992), the Copenhagen Social Development Summit (1995), the Monterrey Finance and Development Summit (2002) and the Johannesburg Sustainable Development Summit (2002).
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| After his retirement he has been involved in a variety of public policy activities nationally and internationally. He continued to assist the UN until December 2010 as Special Adviser on Internet Governance to the UN Secretary General and the chair of the multi stake holder group that organises the annual Internet Governance Forum. He is a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change and the National Broadcasting Standards Authority. He is a Distinguished Fellow of TERI and is an Honorary Fellow of the LSE. He is a trustee of WWF International. He writes a monthly column in the Business Standard. |
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