Global Business Summit can be the Davos of the East: Vineet Jain

The Global Business Summit can be the Davos of the East, said Vineet Jain, Managing Director of the Times group in the welcome address for the Economic Times Global Business Summit 2019 in New Delhi on Friday.

“Our mission is for GBS to establish itself as the Davos of the East. It may not snow in Delhi but the sun is shining on the world’s fastest growing large economy even as dark clouds gather elsewhere,” said Jain.

Top Indian policy makers including, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, railways minister Piyush Goyal, commerce minister Suresh Prabhu and law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, will address the summit to offer insights into the direction of future policy.


Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the Global Business summit on Saturday February 23.

The Summit will also host business leaders and technology entrepreneurs from some of the most talked about and disruptive companies across the globe including Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder of AirBnB, Martin Eberhard co-founder of Tesla, Sebastian Thrun CEO of KittyHawk and many more, said Jain.