Our speakers

Shreya Rao, Head - Private Client Practice & Senior Member, International Tax Practice, Nishith Desai Associates

Shreya Rao heads the private client practice and is a senior member of the tax practice at Nishith Desai Associates. She has extensive experience in advising on cross-border issues in private client law, especially on India-US issues. She obtained her Masters in Law from Harvard University, Cambridge and graduate law degree from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad. She taught tax law as a visiting faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore from 2009-12. She is the recipient of the International Bar Association (Taxation Section) scholarship awarded for a paper examining the applicability of evolving fiscal jurisdiction theories to the business models of global service industries. She was a South India representative of the Young IFA (International Fiscal Association) from 2011-13 and is a registered Trust and Estates Practitioner with the Society for Trust & Estate Practitioners. She is a member of the Steering Committee setting up the STEP India chapter and has spoken at various international conferences on private wealth planning.

Shreya Sakhuja, Lead - Brand Solutions, Mosaic Digital

Shreyas Jayasimha, Partner, AZB & Partners

Shreyas Jayasimha has over 10 years of experience as a practicing lawyer and has been a Partner at AZB since 2008. He read law at NLSIU, Bangalore and was a Chevening Scholar at the University of Warwick, UK. His practice areas include litigation, arbitration and mediation, corporate advisory including foreign investment, mergers  & acquisitions, intellectual property, real estate and technology law amongst others. Shreyas has published widely and currently serves as Regional Editor (South and Central Asia) of the Newsletter of the IBA Arbitration Committee, Secretary and Member of the LCIA Asia Pacific Users Council and as one of five Asia Pacific Regional Coordinators for the International Chamber of Commerce YAF.

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India

Shri Ravi Tyagi, Chief General Manager, SIDBI

Shri Ravindra Pandey, Deputy Managing Director & Chief Information Officer, State Bank of India

Shri Ravindra Pandey, a post graduate in Chemistry, joined the State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer in 1985.

Shri Pandey has held various assignments in the Bank, both India as well as abroad in his career spanning 36 years.
He has extensive knowledge and leadership experience in Digital Transformation, Digital Banking, Payment Solutions, Retail, Corporate and International Banking.

In his current assignment, as the Deputy Managing Director & Chief Information Officer of the Bank, he is leading the entire IT Ecosystem of the Bank including running of the Bank’s Core Banking System, Digital Channels as well as more than 400+ applications. He is further making the Bank future proof by implementing emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics, Robotics, Blockchain etc.

Shri Pandey has held the post of DMD (Strategy) & Chief Digital Officer of the Bank and has headed the Bank’s Jaipur Circle in his previous assignments. His international experience includes CEO, SBI Paris (France) operations.

Shri Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary-Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs

Shri Subhash Chandra Garg assumed responsibilities of the Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India on 12th July, 2017.  He belongs to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), 1983 batch, Rajasthan cadre.  Sh. Garg has degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India and is a professionally qualified Cost and Works Accountant and a Company Secretary.

Sh. Subhash Chandra Garg was Executive Director in the World Bank Group for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka from November, 2014 to July, 2017.  Mr. Garg served on the Board of Directors for the International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), collectively referred as the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

Sh. Garg has over 34 years of experience in administration, management and public policy, in finance and several development sectors - agriculture, education, energy and rural development. He has managed government finances both at the Centre and in the State of Rajasthan.  In Government of India, he worked as Director in the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) and Joint Secretary in the Department of Expenditure (DoE), in the Ministry of Finance and in the State of Rajasthan in various capacities as Secretary (Expenditure), Secretary (Budget) and Principal Secretary of Finance.  He also occupied other senior positions in the Central Government as Joint Secretary(Agriculture) and Additional Secretary(Cabinet).

 

Shri. K. J. George, Hon'ble Minister, Large and Medium Scale Industry, Government of Karnataka

Shri. KELACHANDRA JOSEPH GEORGE, Hon’ble Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industry, Sugar, Information Technology & Bio Technology, Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore, is an Industrialist and Planter by profession and a Social Worker. Started his political career by joining Indian National Congress during 1968, since then he is an active member of the Party.

He had started his political career as President, Gonikoppal Town Youth Congress during 1969. During 1972-73, he was a General Secretary to Coorg District Youth Congress Committee later during 1973-75 and then he became President of Coorg District Congress Committee. He was a Treasurer of the Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee during 1975-78 and later became President of Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee during 1979-82.

He was also a National General Secretary of the Indian Youth Congress Committee during 1982-85. In 1985, contested from Bharathinagar Assembly Constituency and entered for the first time (1985-89) the prestigious State Legislature as its Member. He also held a high profiled position in the Party and Secretary of the Congress Legislature Party.

During 1989, he was the Minister in the Council of Ministers headed by Late.Shri. Veerendra Patil (who termed as an Iron Man of the State) and held the Portfolio of Transport, Food & Civil Supplies (1989-90). Now, these portfolios are shared by two individual Ministers. He was the Minister in the Cabinet headed by Late Shri. S. Bangarappa and held the portfolio of Housing and Urban Development (1990-94). Now these portfolios are shared by three Ministers. He had identified himself in the government as a Champion of Minorities under the able leadership of Late Shri. Bangarappa. He was a model in the Cabinet for his simplicity and generosity mixed with sincerity and honesty.

During 2008 general election to the assembly, for the third time and during 2013 General Election for fourth time he was elected from Sarvagnanagar Assembly Constituency from Bangalore Urban.

During 2013 He was the Minister for Home Affairs (19.05.2013 to 30.10.2015). During 2015 he was the Minister for Bangalore Development & Town Planning (30.10.2015 to 18.07.2016). He once again become the Minister for Bangalore Development and Town planning (26.09.2016 to 17.05.2018). His winning continued during 2018 general election to the assembly, he was elected again from Sarvagnanagar Assembly Constituency for the fifth time and he was become the Minister for Large & Medium Scale Industry, Sugar, Information Technology & Bio Technology, Science and Technology. (08.06.2018 to 27.12.2018)

He was being an MLA for five terms (during 1985-89, 1989-94, 2008-13, 2013-2018 & 2018 to till date), the Congress Party has recognized his services and awarded him suitably several highly responsible portfolios.

He is an instrumental in initiating a move to attract the Naxal Force by mooting a package for their demands and welfare inviting them to surrender themselves voluntarily. Now he is a Minister for Large & Medium Scale Industry. (28.12.2018 till date)

Shri. Raj Kumar Singh, Honourable Union Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister,

Shrija Agrawal, Associate Editor, Mosaic Digital (Moderator)