FDRI / Berkeley Seminar Series on Indian Democracy
Local Governance and Empowerment
May 24-25, 2007
University of California, Berkeley
Bancroft Hotel, Great Hall
(webcasts are linked below)
| Thursday, May 24 |
| 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:30 | Introduction by Professor Raka Ray (UC Berkeley)
Welcome by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau (UC Berkeley) |
| 9:40 | Opening Remarks by Consul General of India, B.S. Prakash |
| 9:50 | FDRI - The Road to Berkeley
Sridar Iyengar, President, FDRI; Venktesh Shukla, Board Member, FDRI
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| 10:00-12:30 |
Session One: Framing the Issues
Moderator: Raka Ray (UC Berkeley)
Panelists: Pranab Bardhan (UC Berkeley), Thomas Isaac (Minister of Finance, Kerala)
Principal Respondents: Suzanne Rudolph and Lloyd Rudolph (University of Chicago)
Discussion
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| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch Speaker: Jayaprakash Narayan (Loksatta)
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| 2:15-5:15 |
Session Two: The State of Local Panchayats
Moderator: Pranab Bardhan (UC Berkeley)
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| 2:15 | Speaker: Mani Shankar Aiyar, Union Minister of Panchayati Raj |
| 3:00 | Coffee Break |
| 3:15 | Panelists: Vijayendra Rao (World Bank), Aniruddh Krishna (Duke University), Nirvikar Singh (UC Santa Cruz)
Principal Respondents: Kevin O'Brien (UC Berkeley), Kent Eaton (UC Santa Cruz)
Discussion |
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| Friday, May 25 |
| 10:00-1:00 | Session Three: Urban Governance and Citizen Empowerment
Moderator: Ananya Roy (UC Berkeley) |
| 10:00 | Speaker: Jaipal Reddy (Union Minister of Urban Affairs) |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Panelists: John Harriss (Simon Fraser University), Ramesh Ramanathan (Janaagraha), Arvind Kejriwal (Parivartan)
Principal Respondents: Irfan Nooruddin (Ohio State), Margaret Weir (UC Berkeley)
Discussion
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| 1:00-2:15 | Lunch Speaker: Kris Gopalakrishnan, incoming CEO of Infosys
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| 2:15-4:15 |
Session Four: Empowerment Catalysts: Media and Social Activists
Moderator: Pradeep Chhibber (UC Berkeley)
Panelists: Kalpana Sharma (Senior Journalist, India), Chandan Mitra (Rajya Sabha MP and Editor, Pioneer), Rajeev Dhavan (Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India)
Principal Respondents: Alberto Diaz and Beatriz Magaloni (Stanford)
Discussion
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| 4:30-6:30 |
Session Five: Good Governance: Lessons Learned
Moderator: Isha Ray (UC Berkeley)
Panelists: Digvijay Singh (Former Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh), Pradeep Chhibber (UC Berkeley)
Respondents: All Participants
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