Annual AIF New York Summit 2008
"The Indian City... Who Counts?"
September 24, 2008
10am - 2pm
Box Lunch Included
New York University
Kimmel Center • Eisner Lubin Auditorium
60 Washington Square South
Subway: 6 train to Astor Place / R, W trains to 8th Street / A,C,E,B,D,F,V trains to W.4th Street
The 2008 AIF Summit will highlight innovative efforts emerging from the private, public and civil society sectors to empower poor urban Indians with opportunity. The Summit will feature a cross-section of speakers from the corporate sector, academia, government, and civil society who are on the frontlines of addressing these issues. The discussion will focus on the following four themes:
• From Crisis to Response: Rights, Entitlements and Identity
• Private Sector, Public Good and Livelihoods at the Bottom of the Pyramid
• Street Children: Access to Education and Services
• Youth Rising: Aspirations and Dilemnas
For more information, please contact: aifnysummit@aif.org
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
PANELISTS:
Dr. Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty
REMARKS BY:
BIOS
Helene Gayle is president and CEO of CARE USA. An internationally recognized expert on health, development and humanitarian issues, she decided early in her profession to focus on matters of social justice and equity. Dr. Gayle spent 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control, focused primarily on combating HIV/AIDS. Dr. Gayle then directed the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In April 2006, she joined CARE, one of the world’s premier international humanitarian organizations, with programs in more than 70 countries to end poverty. She has her B.A. in psychology at Barnard College, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University.
Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur and founder of Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs. At Harvard he founded the Ashoka Table, an interdisciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences. He graduated from Harvard with highest honors; after he graduated from Yale Law School in 1970, Bill began at McKinsey and Company in New York, gaining wide experience serving both public and private clients. Later, Bill served as Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. After being elected a MacArthur Fellow in 1984, he was able to devote himself fully to Ashoka. He currently serves as its Chairman and CEO.
Dr. Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty is the Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab National Bank., After completing his PhD in Benaras Hindu University, he took a post as senior lecturer there, after which he accepted a position at the Bank of Baroda, eventually becoming the CEO of the Bank's U.K. Operations. He joined the Punjab National Bank as its Executive Director in 2004. He rose to the position of Chairman & Managing Director in 2005. Dr. Chakrabarty has been leading the "financial inclusion" efforts in the banking sector in India to reach out to the underprivileged and those who were initially thought to be unbankable, and has partnered with AIF to further those interests. His accomplishments include the introduction of a Bharat Card, which is a credit card for the underprivileged.
Ramesh Ramanathan is the co-founder of Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, an organisation devoted to improving urban governance in India. Ramesh has also worked in the Indian microfinance sector for close to a decade, with a special focus on urban microfinance. He is also Chairman of Janalakshmi, an urban microfinance institution in India. Ramesh has an MS in Physics from BITS Pilani, an MBA from Yale University, and a Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) degree from the Association of Investment Management & Research (AIMR). He was nominated as one of the Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum in 2007.
Kalyani Menon-Sen is a feminist activist, researcher and trainer with JAGORI, a women's resource centre in Delhi, India. She was a member of the national secretariat for the National Campaign for Housing Rights (1985-1990) and National Advisor to the Mahila Samakhya program for women's empowerment through education (1993-1996). Kalyani's recent work has focused attention on evictions and resettlement in Delhi. She has marshalled evidence to show how urbanization impacts the lives of working class women who are trapped at the confluence of multiple vulnerabilities – as migrants, as workers in the informal sector, as non-citizens at best and “outsiders” at worst.
Arbind Singh is the Executive Director of NIDAN, which improves the quality of life of informal sector workers by promoting collective enterprises, enhancing access to legal aid, enabling access to microfinance and insurance, and advocating for basic education and healthcare for their children. He is also coordinator for the National Association of Street Vendors of India(NASVI) where he works to protect rights of street vendors by bringing together policy-makers, local authorities, and the police. He has been selected as an Ashoka Fellow and an Eisenhower Fellow, and has a graduate and postgraduate in Sociology from Delhi University and a law degree from Magadh University. He has also authored several articles and books on informal workers.
Natasha Iskander, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, conducts research on labor migration and its relationship to economic development, labor mobilization and its relationship to workforce development, and processes of institutional innovation and organizational learning. She is also working on a project on Mexican immigrants in the construction industry, investigating how tacit skill moves across national borders. Additionally, Dr. Iskander is launching an initiative on water, climate change, and service delivery in cities around the world. Natasha Iskander received her PhD in Management at MIT. She also holds a Masters in City Planning from MIT, and a BA in Cultural Studies from Stanford University. She has also worked as a community activist and migrant labor organizer.
In Partnership with:
Established in 1938, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University offers advanced programs in Public Administration, Urban Planning, and Management. Through these rigorous programs, NYU Wagner educates the future leaders of public, nonprofit, and health institutions as well as private organizations serving the public sector. http://wagner.nyu.edu
The International Public Service Association (IPSA) is a graduate student organization that brings together members of the NYU Wagner student body with an interest in international public service in order to provide a forum for exchange, debate, education, and action in the areas of international public management, policy, and finance. IPSA is an integral part of Wagner’s Global Public Service initiative. www.wagnerstudents.org/clubs/ipsa