Schedule of Events
Thursday, January 5 |
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Fox Fellows Arrival |
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| 10:00am | Meeting with Professor Chintamani Mahapatra, Rector of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Professor Girish NathJha, Director of International Collaboration. |
| 7:00 – 10:00pm |
(Optional) Dinner at Cyber Hub Location: Soi 7 Pub & Brewery, 205-208 & 209-A, Cyber Hub, DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon |
Friday, January 6 |
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| 7:00 – 8:45am |
Breakfast Location: Coffee Shop Hotel Le Meridien, Gurgaon |
| 9:00 – 11.30am |
Fellowship Update and Alumni Meeting (Ben Cashore, Julia Muravnik, Lee Fox) Location: Hotel Le Meridien, Phoenix Hall, Gurgaon |
| 11:30 – 1:00pm |
Networking Lunch Location: Hotel Le Meridien, Phoenix Hall, Gurgaon |
| 11:30 – 1:00pm |
Coordinators Lunch Location: Hotel Le Meridien, Phoenix Hall, Gurgaon |
| 1:00 – 6:00pm |
City Tour Meeting in the lobby |
| 8:00 – 11:00pm |
Opening Reception Location: Hotel Le Meridien, Open Terrace, Gurgaon Speakers: Ben Cashore; George Joseph; Lee Fox; Girish Nath Jha |
Saturday, January 7 |
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| 7:00 – 7:45am |
Breakfast Location: Coffee Shop Hotel Le Meridien, Gurgaon |
| 8:00am |
Departure for the India Habitat Centre |
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Leadership: Opportunities for BRICS in Global Affairs at the India Habitat Centre |
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| 9:00 – 9:30am | Coffee |
| 9:30 – 10:30am |
Keynote Speech by Arvind Subramanian Location: India Habitat Centre, Gulmohar Hall |
| 10:30 – 12:00 pm |
Panel 1: New World Leadership? BRICS and the West Location: India Habitat Centre, Gulmohar Hall |
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Panelists: Jeffrey Mankoff, Center for Strategic and International Studies, “The BRICS and the Creation of an Alternative Global Architecture” David Bargueño, Foreign Affairs Officer, U.S. Department of State, “Brazil in the World, and the World in Brazil” Salvador Santino Regilme, Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Leiden, Netherlands, “United States Leadership in a New World Order: Human Rights and Global Deliberative Democracy Amidst the Rise of Skepticism” Moderator: Abha Yadav, Legal Officer, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
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12:00 – 1:00pm 1:00 - 1:45pm |
Lunch Location: India Habitat Centre, Gulmohar Hall – Pre Function Area Keynote Speech by Baijayant Panda |
| 2:00 – 3:30pm | 2 consecutive panels |
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Panel 2: Leadership and Development Location: India Habitat Centre, Gulmohar Hall |
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Panelists: Avinash Godbole, Research Fellow, Indian Council of World Affairs, India, “BRICS Leadership in the Developing World” Abraham Trejo Terreros, PhD candidate, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico, “Fighting corruption in Latin America: Actors, strategies and scope in Brazil and Mexico after 2008” Singumbe Muyeba, Visiting Lecturer, Bridgewater State University, USA, “Navigating the Social Contract: Institutional Capital and the Pursuit of Development in a Time of Rising Nationalism among the BRICS Countries” Moderator: Kavitha Chalakkal, Assistant Professor, Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore. |
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Panel 3: BRICS leadership in the Environment Location: India Habitat Centre, Willow Hall |
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Panelists: Ulrich Volz,Head of Department of Economics, SOAS University of London & Senior Research Fellow, German Development Institute, “Taking the Lead in Advancing the Green Transformation: The Role of the BRICS in Aligning Economic Growth with Sustainability” William Attwell, Senior Analyst, Sub-Saharan Africa, at Frontier Strategy Group, “BRICS Cities as Climate Leaders: The Cases of Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town” Moderator: Kanakaraj Arangasamy, Assistant Vice President, Deutsche Bank |
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3:30-4:00pm |
Break |
| 4:00 – 5:30pm |
Panel 4: Leadership, ideology and psychology in BRICS Location: India Habitat Centre, Gulmohar Hall |
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Panelists: Victor Louzon, Postdoctoral research scholar, Columbia University, “The PRC authorities’ Domestic and International Leadership: Is there a Chinese Political Model?” Duan Zheng, PhD Candidate, Fudan University School of Philosophy, “Renewal and Relapse: Evolution of China’s Official Political Discourse of Xi Era” Maxim Kiselev,Moscow State Lomonosov University’s Higher School of Business, SkolkovoInsitute for Science and Technology, “Psychology of Political Leadership in Russia, and How People Perceive Political Leaders” Moderator: CJ Kuncheria, PhD candidate and an ICHR Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
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| 5:30 – 6:15pm | Tea break |
| 6:15 – 7:00pm |
Keynote Speech by Jairam Ramesh Location: India Habitat Centre, Gulmohar Hall |
| 7:00 - 11:00pm |
Dinner Location: India Habitat Centre, Siver Oak Lawn |
| 11:30 pm |
Departure for Hotel Le Meridien |