Bennett University global webinar to focus on the economic road ahead; Piyush Goyal to give the keynote address

NEW DELHI: The Times of India Group’s Bennett University (BU) is organising a global online conference ‘Covid-19: “Jaan Bhi Jahan Bhi” on May 14, 2020 from 4 pm to 9.30pm, which will focus on the road ahead for business and industry. The webinar is being organised in the backdrop of the Rs 20 lakh crore special package and other measures to kickstart the economy devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Chief guest Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal will give the keynote address for the webinar, which is being organized by Bennett University’s School of Management.

The webinar, presented by Darwin Industries, will also feature top policymakers like Amitabh Kant (CEO, Niti Aayog), apart from global luminaries Kaushik Basu (Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, Cornell University), Pronab Sen (Country director for the India Programme of the International Growth Centre) and Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, dean of the Indian School of Public Policy, founder and research director of the India Development Foundation. Soumya Kanti Ghosh, group chief economic advisor, SBI as well as Abheek Barua, chief economist and executive vice president, HDFC Bank are also key speakers.


Industry is also well represented from various diverse fields including experts like R Suresh, managing director, INSIST Executive Search and Yogesh D Parikh, president of Gujarat Dyestuff Manufacturers Association as well as industry bigwigs like Ritu Anand (chief leadership and diversity officer, Tata Consultancy Services) and Rajorshi Ganguli (president and global HR head, Alkem Laboratories). A separate session on supply chain issues will be featuring Samrat Sehgal, head of Supply Chain, Dabur India, and Rajesh Singhmar, head Supply Chain, Godrej Agrovet.

This, the third online conference that Bennett University is organising after the previous two successful online conferences by Department of Biotechnology and Times School of Media. It will have six sessions, which include macro-economic issues as well as specific focus areas like Supply Chain, Demand Management and Human Resources. At a time when the third phase of lockdown has forced us to think of balancing between death from hunger, and death from the virus, speakers will explore the way forward on the economic front, so that both lives –and livelihoods- can be saved.

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