Presentations & Papers

Presentations & Papers

Inaugural Session

• Ajay Chibber, Assistant Administrator and Director, UNDP
• Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission of India
• Atiur Rahman, Governor, Bangladesh Bank
• Frederic Jenny, Judge, French Supreme Court
• C Rangarajan, Chairman, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, India
• Navneet Sharma, Director, CUTS Institute for Regulation and Competition

Session I – Rationale for Economic Regulation

• Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission of India
• Ashley C Brown, Executive Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, USA
• Rohan Samarajiva, CEO, LIRNE Asia, Sri Lanka
• Vikram S. Mehta, Chairman, Shell Group of Companies, India

Session II – Regulatory Coherence: What, Why and How?

• Dhanendra Kumar, Chairperson, Competition Commission of India
• Vivek Ghosal, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Allan Asher, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Australia
• Mark Jamison, Director, PURC, University of Florida, USA
• Scott Jacobs, Managing Director, Jacobs and Associates, USA
• Yannis Katsoulacos, Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece

Luncheon

• Allan Fels, Dean, Australia & New Zealand School of Government
• Pradeep S Mehta, Secretary General, CUTS
• Sanjaya Baru, Editor, Business Standard

Session III – Regulatory Deficit in the Financial Sector

• Atiur Rahman, Governor, Bangladesh Bank
• Shyam Khemani, Principal, Micra, USA
• Frederic Jenny, Judge, French Supreme Court
• Scott McCleskey, Global Head of Financial Services Regulation at Thomson Reuters GRC
• Sharyn O’Halloran, Professor, Columbia University, USA

Session IV – Quality of Regulation: The Determinants

• S L Rao, Former Chairman, CERC, India
• Cezley Sampson, Regulatory Consultant, Jamaica
• Sunil Jain, Opinion Editor, The Financial Express, India
• Payal Malik, Delhi University, India
• David O’ngolo, Principal Consultant, Spellman & Walker Co. Ltd., Kenya
• Joisa Dutra, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, USA and Getulio Vargas Foundation University, Brazil
• Malathy Knight, Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka

Session V (A) -The Role of Competition Law and Policy in promoting Economic Growth

• TCA S Raghavan, Associate Editor, The Hindu Business Line, India
• Economic Development, Competition, and Competition Law – Kenneth Davidson, Consultant,
  Competition Policy & Law, USA
• A Diagnostic Tool for Reform – Improving the Effectiveness of Competition Law Reform Projects-
  Michelle Chowdhury, Lawyer, Georgetown Law, USA
• Economics of calculating Cartel Damages-
  Kasturi Moodaliyar, Senior Lecturer, University of, Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Reconciling Industrial and Competition Policies-
  Deunden Nikomborirak, Research Director, Thailand Development Research Institute Foundation (TDRI)
• S Chakravarthy, Adviser on Competition Policy and Law, India
• Peter Muchoki Njoroge, Ex Chairperson, COMESA Competition Authority, Kenya

Session V (B): Country/Sectoral Experiences in Implementing Competition and Regulatory
Regimes

• Scott Jacobs, Managing Director, Jacobs and Associates, USA
• The Canadian Escape from the Subprime Crisis: Lessons from Comparing the US and Canadian Experiences,
  Derek Ireland, Economic and Policy Consultant, Canada
• Economic Regulation and Antitrust Intervention: Experiences in Gas, Electricity, and Railways in Italy –
  Alberto Asquer, Lecturer, University of Cagliari, Italy
• Practical consequences of trade off choices in regulatory and privatisation policies: what do we learn from gas and electricity privatisation in the UK –
  Devendra Kodwani, Lecturer, The Open University Business School, UK
• The competition law and sectoral regulation on Thai energy sector: A review and the forward development plan –
  Pornchai Wisuttisak, PhD candidate, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim, Associate Professor, Cairo University, Egypt
• TL Sankar, Honorary Visiting Professor, Administrative Staff College of India

Session VI (A) – India Competition and Regulation Report, 2011

• J S Sarma, Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
• Telecom Regulations in India: Recent Lessons and Way Forward –
  Tom-Reiel Heggedal, Norwegian School of Management, Norway
• Regulatory issues in India’s Natural Gas sector,
  Syamal K Sarkar, GoI
• Essential Facilities Doctrine: A Case for India?,
  Jaivir Singh, Professor, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, India
• Ashish Khanna, Country Sector Coordinator (Energy), The World Bank, India
• Steve Thomas, Senior Research Fellow, University of Greenwich, UK

Session VI (B) – Session on Retail, Micro-finance and Real Estate

• Anupam Khanna, Principal Advisor, National Transport Development Policy Committee, Govt. of India
• Regulating Retail Distribution in India: Removing Impediments to Competition and Growth,
  Suparna Karmakar, CUTS Institute for Regulation and Competition (CIRC), India
• Regulation and Competition: Microfinance Institutions in India,
  Santadarshan Sadhu, Kenny Kline, IFMR-CMF, India
• Real Estate Regulations: What‘s at Stake for the Housing Sector,
  Abhishek Kiran Gupta, Jones Lang LaSalle, India
• Joseph Wilson, Commissioner, Competition Commission of Pakistan
• Wang Xiaoye, Director, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• TK Arun, Editor, The Economic Times, India

Luncheon

• Governance and Regulatory Challenges: Lessons from India’s growth story
• Suman K. Bery, Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
• Nitin Desai, Former Under-Secretary General of the UN, India

Session VII – Interface between Competition Law and Sector Regulation

• Philippe Brusick, President CUTS Geneva Resource Centre, Switzerland
• François SOUTY, Deputy interministerial director for the Protection of Population (Tours) France and Professor, Univ. of La Rochelle
• Shiying Xu, East China University of Politics and Law, China
• Allan Fels, Dean, Australia & New Zealand School of Government
• Geeta Gouri, Member, Competition Commission of India
• George Lipimile, Director and CEO, COMESA Competition Commission, Malawi