South Asian DIASPORA Convention 2019

POLITICAL OFFICER HOLDERS AND POLICYMAKERS

Mr Teo Chee Hean

Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security
Republic of Singapore

Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies
Republic of Singapore

Mr Lawrence Wong

Minister for National Development and Second Minister for Finance
Republic of Singapore

Ms Indranee Rajah

Minister, Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Finance and Education
Republic of Singapore

ORGANISER - INSTITUTE OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES (ISAS)

Ambassador Gopinath Pillai

Chairman, Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS; and
Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Singapore

Professor Tan Tai Yong

President, Yale-NUS College and
Deputy Chairman, Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS

Professor C Raja Mohan

Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS

Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Choudhury

Principal Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS; and
Former Foreign Advisor (Foreign Minister) of Bangladesh

Mr Vinod Rai

Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS; and
Former Comptroller and Auditor General, India

Dr S Narayan

Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS; and
Former Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of India

LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

Dr Francis Chong

Senior Director
Emerging Markets Division & Amaravati Partnership Office
Ministry of Trade and Industry,
Singapore

Ms Rasheda K Choudhury

Executive Director (CEO), Campaign for Popular Education; and
Former Adviser, Caretaker Government of Bangladesh

Mr S Chandra Das

Managing Director, NUR Investment & Trading Pte Ltd; and
Non-Resident High Commissioner of Singapore to Sri Lanka

Ms Karuna Gopal

Founding President
Foundation for Futuristic Cities
India

Mr Md Shahidul Haque

Foreign Secretary, Government of Bangladesh
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka

Mr Shaikh Ismail

Managing Director
Accenture; and
Member, Board of Governors of the Institute of Technical Education
Singapore

Mr Bharat Rajesh Joshi

Director
Joshi Group/J-Curve
India

Ms Aisha Khan

Chief Executive
Civil Society Coalition for Climate Change
Pakistan

Mr Enayetullah Khan

Founder and Managing Director
Cosmos Group
Bangladesh

Ms Anne Lochoff

Senior Advisor (Partnerships), Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development
United Nations Development Programme
Singapore

Professor Kishore Mahbubani

Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute,
National University of Singapore

Ms Roshni Mahtani

Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer
theAsianparents
Singapore

Mr Sopnendu Mohanty

Chief FinTech Officer
Monetary Authority of Singapore

Ms Pranoti Nagarkar

Founder, Inventor, CEO, Rotimatic

Mr Ng Yi Ming

Managing Partner
Tribe Accelerator
Singapore

Dr Amitendu Palit

Senior Research Fellow; and Research Lead (Trade and Economics)
Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS

Mr Pang Yee Ean

Director General, Investment Operations
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB)
China

Dr Anju Mary Paul

Associate Professor and Head of Studies of the Global Affairs Major
Yale-NUS College,
Singapore

Mr Hadi Rahmad

Chief Commercial Officer WhatsHalal
Singapore

Ms Vani Tripathi Tikoo

Actor/Producer
Member, Central Board of Film Certification, India

Mr Ajay Tyagi

Chairman
Securities and Exchange
Board of India

Professor Wang Gungwu

University Professor, National University of Singapore; and
Emeritus Professor, Australian National University

Mr Jonathan Yap

President, CapitaLand Financial
CapitaLand Group
Singapore