Confluence Talk' on ‘Corporate Governance and Public Policy: Insights for Future Leaders’ by Dr. Niraj Gupta
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The Centre for Public Policy & Governance (CPPG), Goa Institute of Management (GIM), in collaboration with the Agora Lokniti Student Club recently organized ‘Confluence Talk’ on the topic ‘Corporate Governance and Public Policy: Insights for Future Leaders’ on January 09, 2025, at Campus of Goa Institute of Management -Goa
Keynote speaker

Dr. Niraj Gupta
Head of the School of Corporate Governance & Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA)
- niraj.gupta@gov.in
Dr. Niraj Gupta is heading the School of Corporate Governance & Public Policy, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi. He is also leading the public policy initiatives on Independent Directors Databank and National CSR Awards as Nodal Officer.
He is having more than 27 years of Research, Teaching & Consulting Experience. He is a Ph.D, MBA, M.com and Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management and has attended a number of courses at IIM-Ahmedabad, IIT-Kanpur, MDI-Gurgaon etc. Dr. Gupta is an ICSSR Visiting Research Fellow, DEA Fellow of Foundation Maison Des Sciences, Paris France on the aspects of Corporate Governance, Business Sustainability and Responsible Business Conduct. He had also been a visiting professor to a number of academic institutions in India and Europe.
Dr Gupta had been engaged in various research projects and has authored a number of research papers/reports in the field of corporate governance, business policy etc. He is a recipient of a number of scholarships and awards in his career. He has participated in various national and International Conferences and participated in various academic, consulting, advocacy forums.
Executive training and adult learning is his forte and has trained a number of boards/ board members of public and private sector companies in India and abroad.
Discussant

Sebastian Morris
Senior Professor, General Management & Public Policy & Chair, Centre for Public Policy & Governance
- morris@gim.ac.in; chaircppg@gim.ac.in
- +91 9824232121; +91 832 2366733
Prof. Sebastian Morris is Senior Professor and Chair of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at the Goa Institute of Management. He retired from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad after over 25 years of teaching, research and consultation. His principal interests are the Indian economy, infrastructure development and regulation, the public sector and governance, international trade and investments, macroeconomics, and small industry. His recent books have been: Macroeconomic Policy in India since the Global Financial Crisis – Trends, Policies and Challenges in Economic Revival Post COVID (Springer Nature, 2022); (ed.) The Difficulty of Being Gajendra Haldea – Reflections on His Life and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2023) and (ed.) The India Infrastructure Report 2023 – Urban Planning and Development (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Moderator

Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar
Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management
- kingshuk@gim.ac.in
- 91 832 2366942
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar is Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management. He had earlier served as labour administrator for more than two decades with the Govt. of West Bengal. His interests include labour & industrial economics, development economics, business economics, labour administration and labour laws, plantation economics and labour, labour laws and labour administration, employment relations and informal labour. In the past, he has worked as a faculty at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida specializing in labour laws and labour administration. He has also worked as Assistant Professor in the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, in connection with works related to BPL Census 2011.
Schedule
1.00 pm to 2.00 pm Lunch with the Director, CPPG faculty and team
2.00 pm to 3.00 pm Meeting with the Director, MDP Chair, CPPG Team etc. to explore collaboration with IICA for executive education programmes and other initiatives
6.00 pm to 7.30 pm Confluence Talk (Agora-Lokniti Club): ‘Corporate Governance and Public Policy: Insights for Future Leaders’
8.00 pm to 10.00 pm Networking and Dinner
Contact Persons
For any queries kindly contact:
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Associate Professor, and Member, CPPG, GIM
Email: kingshuk@gim.ac.in
Contact no: +91 9007704524; +91 8322366942
Ms. Bernice de Souza, Senior Research Associate, CPPG, GIM
Email: bernice@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 9923693329
Ms. Nandini Tank, Research Associate, CPPG, GIM
Email: nandini.tank@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 8780235541