Speaker: Dr Subroto Roy, formerly economic policy advisor to Rajiv Gandhi (1990-91)

Chair: Shri B.R. Singh, IAS (retd.)

The speaker has been a faculty member at the University of Hawaii-Manoa and IIT Kharagpur and was contributing editor to The Statesman. He is the author of Philosophy of Economics: On the Scope of Reason in Economic Enquiry and Pricing, Planning and Politics: A Study of Economic Distortions in India, besides other books, including, as co-editor, Margaret Thatcher's Revolution: How it Happened and What it Meant; Foundations of India's Political Economy: Towards an Agenda for the 1990s; Foundations of Pakistan's Political Economy: Towards an Agenda for the 1990s