To facilitate the exchange of information and ideas among experts and intellectuals with regard to property rights, India Institute is organizing the first ‘India Property Rights Conference’ on the theme “Property Rights for Ease of Doing Business” on 13th July, 2015 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi in which the International Property Rights Index would be launched in India for the first time by Mr. LorenzoMontanari, the Executive Director of the International Property Rights Alliance, the organization that has developed the index that is a barometer for protection of property rights and economic well-being. India Institute aims to collaborate with other like-minded organizations to make this an annual event to continue to focus on strengthening property rights and economic freedom in the country.
Key Speakers include:
- Dr Devesh Kapur, who is the Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at University of Pennsylvania.
- Dr. Ajay Shah, who leads the Macro/Finance Group at NIPFP in New Delhi. He does academic and policy-oriented research in the fields of Indian economic growth, open economy macroeconomics, public finance, financial economics and pensions.
- Dr. Nirvikar Singh, who is a Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Centre for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Ms. Prathiba Singh, who is a senior advocate, is one of India’s leading intellectual property (IP) litigators.
- Mr. Lorenzo Montanari, who is Executive Director of the Property Rights Alliance (PRA), an advocacy group/think tank based in Washington, DC USA committed to the protection of physical, legal and intellectual property rights around the world.
- Mr. Barun Mitra, who is a commentator on current affairs on a range of issues from economic development to conservation of wildlife.
- Mr. Ananth Padmanabhan, who is the author of the leading treatise, Intellectual property rights: infringement and remedies.
Date and Venue: Monday, 13 July 2015, India Habitat Centre.
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