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Seminar: “Dealing with uncertainty in designing India’s energy future” By Mr Suman Berry (Nonresident Fellow of the Brussels think-tank Bruegel, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth)

Date 21st July 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Mr Suman Berry (Nonresident Fellow of the Brussels think-tank Bruegel, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth) is presenting a seminar on ” Dealing with uncertainty in designing India’s energy future”.

Date: 21st July 2017 (Friday)
Time: 3 pm
Venue: Seanza Conference Hall, IGIDR.
The talk will draw upon a recent book “Energizing India’ (Sage India, 2017) that he has co-authored.

Profile- Suman Bery

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Till mid-2016 Suman Bery was Shell’s Chief Economist, based in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is currently a Nonresident Fellow of the Brussels think-tank Bruegel, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. He is based in New Delhi.

Suman had earlier served as Director-General (Chief Executive) of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. NCAER is one of India’s leading independent non-profit policy research institutions. At various times Suman was a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, of India’s Statistical Commission and of the Reserve Bank of India’s Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy.

Prior to NCAER, Mr. Bery was with the World Bank in Washington DC with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.  At the time of India’s economic reforms (1992-1994), on leave from the World Bank, Mr. Bery worked as Special Consultant to the Reserve Bank of India, Bombay. His professional writing includes contributions on the political economy of reform, financial sector and banking reform and energy trends and policy. He had also contributed a monthly column to the Indian business newspaper Business Standard for more than a decade.

Details

Date:
21st July 2017
Time:
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Venue

IGIDR, Seanza Conference Hall
IGIDR
Mumbai, Maharashtra India
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