RIS has been organizing monthly Breakfast Seminars on key contemporary themes by its faculty members since October 2014. The Seminars starts sharp at 8.30 am and closes at 9.30 am (with 30 mins for open discussion after presentation by the speaker). The Seminars are chaired by distinguished academics and policymakers and are well attended. The seminar is preceded with breakfast for participants at 8.00 am.

Seminar	Topic	Chair	Speaker/Discussant	Day and Date
	Medical Devices Sector in India: Regulations, Local Manufacturing and Trade	Dr. Sakthivel Selvaraj, Director, Health Economics, Financing and Policy, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi		Friday,31 January, 2020
	Genome Editing and Global Governance	Amb. Bhaskar Balakrishnan, Science Diplomacy Fellow, RIS	Dr S.R. Rao, Adviser, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Lead Speaker Dr Anurag Agrawal, Director, CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Lead Discussant	Tuesday 30 April 2019
	ASEAN Indo-Pacific Outlook and India	Ambassador Anil Wadhwa, former Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India		Wednesday 10 April 2019
	Development Models and Humanitarian Issues	Dr Yasmin Ali Haque, Representative in India, UNICEF and Acting UN Resident Coordinator in India		Wednesday, 9 January 2019
	Blue Economy: The Way Forward for India	Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia, former Director General, ICWA	Admiral R.K. Dhowan (Retd.), Former Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) to give his remarks at the Seminar.	Monday 19 November 2018
	India, Afghanistan and Iran Partnership: Understanding the Emerging Contours	Amb. Vivek Katju	Amb. Amar Sinha, Distinguish Fellow, RIS	Wednesday,24 October 2018
	CHABAHAR: A port too Far?	Amb.D.P.Srivastava, Senior Fellow, Vivekananda International Foundation	Mr Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, Consultant, RIS	Friday,28 September 2018
	Issues in RCEP negotiations	Mr Rajeev Kher, Distinguished Fellow, RIS	Mr Rajeev Kher, Distinguished Fellow, RIS Amb. (Dr.) V. S. Sheshadri, Former Vice-Chairman, RIS and currently with CII	Wednesday,29 August 2018
	Growth and Development Models: Contemporary Perspectives	Prof. Pulin B Nayak, Delhi School of Economics	Prof. Milindo Chakrabarti, Visiting Fellow, RIS	Tuesday,24 July 2018
	Dynamics of Agricultural Trade of IBSA Countries	Dr.  S.K. Mohanty, Professor, RIS	Dr. Shaikh Mohd. Mouzam, IBSA Fellow, RIS	Friday,11 May 2018
	Is there any employment effect of Foreign Direct Investment in Indian manufacturing industries?	Prof. Shahid Ahmed, Head, Department of Economics,  Jamia Millia Islamia	Dr Sanjaya Malik, Consultant, RIS	Friday,6 April 2018
	Participation of IBSA Countries in Global Production Networks	Dr Ashwani Gupta, Scientist G Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Ministry of Science and Technology	Ms Garima Dhir, IBSA Fellows	Tuesday, 5 December 2017
	Leveraging Trade in High Technology for Emergence: The BRICS Experience	Prof. Vijay Kumar Kaul, Dean, Faculty of Applied Social Science & Humanities, University of Delhi	Dr Sabyasachi Saha, Assistant Professor	Tuesday, 4 July 2017
	Financial Cooperation among BRICS Countries: Existing Mechanisms and Future Discourse	Shri Alok Dimri, Joint Secretary,  MEA Chaired the meeting	Dr Priyadashi Dash, Research Associate	Friday, 7 April 2017
	Nigerian South-South Solidarity Models: Driving Force, Inspirations and Foreign Policy Focus	Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, DG, RIS	Dr Saidu Nasiru Sulaiman MNIM, Consultant, RIS	Tuesday, 7 February 2017
	The role of Financial Access and Financial Development on Firm’s Exportability: Empirical Evidence from Asia-Pacific	Shri T.C.A. Ranganathan, former Chairman and Managing Director, EXIM Bank of India	Dr Durairaj Kumarasamy, Consultant	Tuesday, 3 January  2017
	Impacts of FTAs: Trade Creation and Trade Diversion	Prof. Nisha Taneja, ICRIER	Ms Nitya Batra, Research Assistant, RIS	Tuesday, 5 April 2016
	Fiscal Incentives to Promote Industrial R&D: Cross Country Evidence	Prof. Pranav N. Desai Centre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU	Ms Prativa Shaw, Research Assistant, RIS	Thursday, 7 January 2016
	Debate on Global Development through the lens of the World System Theory	Prof. Ash Narain Roy, Director, Institute of Social Sciences	Mr Pratyush, Research Assistant	Wednesday, 2 December 2015
	Growth of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Pre- and Post-TRIPS Regime	Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, DG, RIS	Ms Payel Chatterjee, Research Assistant	Tuesday, 3 November 2015
	Trade Policy Liberalisation and Its Linkage with Trade in India	Dr Shahid Ahmad, Head Dept. of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia University	Ms Aastha Gupta Research Assistant	Friday, 11 September 2015
	Vietnam - China Greater Mekong Sub-regional Framework of Cooperation (GMS)	Amb. Jayant Prasad, Visiting Fellow, RIS	Ms Rashmi Singh Consultant, RIS	Tuesday, 11 August  2015
	An Introduction to CGE Modelling and its Application	Dr S.K. Mohanty, Professor, RIS	Mr Sunando Basu Research Associate, RIS	Tuesday, 2 June 2015
	India’s Development Cooperation with Ethiopia in Sugar Production: An Assessment	Dr S.K. Mohanty, Professor, RIS	Dr Sushil Kumar Consultant, RIS	Tuesday, 5 May 2015
	Developments in Trade Theory and Practice	Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, DG, RIS	Dr Ram Upendra Das	Tuesday, 7 April 2015
	Productivity-Trade Relationship: Perspectives from the Manufacturing Sector in India	Dr Ram Upendra Das, Professor, RIS	Mr Jay Dev Dubey, Consultant, RIS	Tuesday, 3 March 2015
	Methodological Issues in the Evaluation of South-South Cooperation	Prof. Manmohan Agarwal Visiting Fellow, RIS	Prof. Milindo Chakrabarti, Visiting Fellow, RIS	Tuesday, 17 February 2015
	Breakfast Seminar : Trade Analysis with Tradesift	Dr Ram Upendra Das, Professor, RIS	Ms Sreya Pan, Research Associate, RIS	Thursday, 29 January 2015
	India’s Development Cooperation with Ethiopia: A case study of sugar  industry	Dr. S.K. Mohanty, Professor, RIS	Prof. Manmohan Agarwal (Discussant)	Tuesday, 9 December 2014
	Science and Technology Policy and issues in Access, Equity and Inclusion	Dr Rajeswari  Raina, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS),	Mr Amit Kumar, Research Associate, RIS Dr Praveen Arora, Adviser, Department of Science and Technology (Discussant)	Tuesday, 2 December 2014
	University-Industry Interface and Technology Transfer: The Indian Context	Dr Ashwani Gupta, Adviser/Scientist G Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Ministry of Science and Technology	Dr Sabyasachi Saha, Assistant Professor, RIS Dr Nitya Nanda, Fellow, TERI (Discussant)	Wednesday, 26 November 2014
	Breakfast Seminar: Reserve Management in Asia: Changing Contours and Challenges	Prof. B.B. Bhattacharyya, Member, GB & GC of RIS and former Vice-chancellor, JNU	Dr Priyadarshi Dash, Research Associate, RIS Dr Sabyasachi Saha, Assistant Professor, RIS (Discussant)	Tuesday, 11 November 2014
	Status of Social Sectors in IBSA: A Decadal Assessment	Dr Ash Narain Roy, Director, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi	Dr Beena Pandey, Research Associate, RIS Mr Vijay Naresh Mehta, Consultant (MER), MEA (Discussant)	Thursday, 9 October 2014

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