FW: 15 August 2012 Celebrations

[Amit Chandra]

Please join us in the panel discussion to mark 15^th birthday of CCS.

 

Amit Chandra

Jeevika National Coordinator, Centre for Civil Society

www.ccs.in www.schoolchoice.in www.jeevika.org www.azadi.me www.righttoeducation.in

 

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"The basic fact about Indian economic development is that there has begun a breaking down of traditional attitudes and social arrangements that promises to release great reserves of private energy and initiative. India is on the move." - Milton Friedman, 1963

 

On the auspicious occasion of India's 65 years of Independence Centre for Civil Society & Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice invite you to FRIEDMAN ON INDIA A tribute to the great economist on his birth centenary by Jaithirth Rao, Columnist & former CEO, Mphasis Swaminathan S Aiyar, Economic Journalist & Research Scholar, Cato Institute Parth J Shah, President, Centre for Civil Society Chair: Luis Miranda, former Chairman, IDFC Private Equity Date: 15 August 2012 Time: 4:00-6:00 PM followed by hi-tea Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
To participate click here. For more information contact Srijan: +91 99536 72130; sri...@ccs.in
LUIS MIRANDA, Chair Chairman of the Board of Advisors at Centre for Civil Society, he is former Chairman, IDFC Private Equity & has extensive experience in dealing with early stage companies & private equity investing. He is also former Co- Chairman of the Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. He is Chairman, Asia Cabinet of the Global Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Business, Chicago. He served as a Founding Member of HDFC Bank Ltd. JAITHIRTH RAO, Panellist Indian businessman and Former CEO of the software company MphasiS. An alumnus of Loyola College in Chennai, IIM Ahmedabad & the University of Chicago, Rao held several positions in Citibank prior to founding MphasiS in 1998. He writes a regular opinion column for the Indian Express and lectures occasionally at IIM-A, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management - IIT Bombay as well as for the Sujaya Foundation. Rao is actively involved with the CII and was Chairman, NASSCOM 2004-05. SWAMINATHAN S AIYAR, Panellist Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and popularly known  for  his column “Swaminominics” in the Times of India. Considered “India’s leading economic journalist” by Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institution, he has been editor of India's two biggest financial dailies, The Economic Times and Financial Express, and was also the India correspondent of The Economist for two decades. PARTH J SHAH, Panellist Founder President of the Centre for Civil Society, his research & advocacy work focuses on the themes of economic freedom, choice & competition in education, property rights and good governance. He has been published extensively in international and Indian journals, on various topics from currency regulation to education policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from Auburn University and taught at the University of Michigan.

 

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To honor the life and work of Milton Friedman on his birth centenary, Parth J Shah shares in this video his personal relationship with Milton Friedman and how his belief in choice and empowering students and parents inspired him to launch India’s School Choice Campaign

 

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