Keynote Speaker

Professor Sachin Chaturvedi works on issues related to development economics with including development finance with focus on building necessary ecosystem like related institutions and infrastructure for eventually achieving SDGs. In this, cooperation modalities like South-South and triangular Cooperation has been his area of specialisation. With various papers and books he has explored areas of cooperation in trade and innovation linkages with special focus on WTO.

Professor Chaturvedi is currently Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS). He is also Member, Board of Governors of India's Central Bank - Reserve Bank of India. His book "The Logic of Sharing – Indian Approach to South-South Cooperation" has been acclaimed internationally as one of the best volumes on international development cooperation. Apart from this he has authored/edited several books, apart from contributing several chapters in the edited volumes and has also contributed several research articles on various aspects of issues related to G20 and WTO.