India's Economic Development: The Weight of the Past and the Promise of the Future

Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series
Arvind Subramanian
Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
50th Floor Conference Center
601 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10022

Arvind Subramanian is the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. He is the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. (currently on leave from both). Named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers, he has published widely in academic journals and policy commentaries.

The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.