The Raisina Podcast

The post-pandemic world is marked by greater commitment to accelerating the green transformation. Various forms of green mobility are crucial to this effort – the past year has seen a renewed push for electric vehicles across the world, both from governments and the private sector. What other ways can states, local governments and corporations collaborate on green mobility? For example, what role can freight electrification play in the green transition? How will new green mobility-friendly infrastructure in cities and along freight routes be financed, including by private capital? How can the mobility transition be just – preserving routes to prosperity for all, and creating more jobs for under-served areas and communities?

In conversation with

Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways and the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, India
Moderated by Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC-TV18, India

The COP26 meeting in Glasgow this year placed emphasis on increasing the availability of climate finance. Yet, will emerging economies be left short once again? Without a clear #commitment to regulatory changes in the Global North, which push climate finance towards the developing world, countries like India will find it impossible to commit to further painful cuts in their emissions pathways. Can the private and public sector, developing and developed countries, find common ground? What can be hoped for in terms of unleashing capital from the North to get to work on the Green Transition in the South? What role do financial processes and constraints in the world’s financial centres play in creating bottlenecks on the flow of climate finance across borders?

In conversation with

Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government, London
School of Economics, United Kingdom

Jayant Sinha, Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Parliamentary
Standing Committee for Finance, India

Moderator – Annapurna Mitra, Fellow, Observer Research Foundation,
India

A post-pandemic recovery will need more than just an economic multiplier: It will require a complete reset. Post-COVID economic principles must prioritise resilience and inclusion. The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable, and the restart of the global economy will have to take this into account. Strong and effective female leaders have received considerable attention for their ability to manage the pandemic well; how will female leadership play into the recovery? What are the ways in which social contracts and economic arrangements, which have been disrupted by the pandemic year, can be rebuilt by women leaders to create a more sustainable and equitable world?

Panelists:

Minouche Shafik, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Geraldine Ang, Policy Analyst, Green Investment, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, France

Bhakti Sharma, Sarpanch, Barkhedi Abdullah, India

Delphine O, Ambassador-at-Large and Secretary General for the Generation Equality Forum, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

Moderator- Kate Hampton, CEO, Children's Investment Fund Foundation, United Kingdom

The Raisina Dialogue is a multilateral conference committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the global community. Every year, global leaders in policy, business, media and civil society are hosted in New Delhi to discuss cooperation on a wide range of pertinent international policy matters.

The conference is hosted by the ORF in collaboration with the Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs.

In the latest episode of Raisina 2021, we explore India’s increasing engagement in health, development, and technology solutions in the post-pandemic global debate. There are three critical components. First, India’s partnership in vaccinating the world against COVID-19. Second, India’s new role in proactively responding to health and development imperatives beyond its own people. Third, India as an emerging solutions provider as technology and its application takes centre-stage.

In conversation with S. Jaishankar, Minister for External Affairs, India, and K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor, India in conversation with Mark Suzman, Chief Executive Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United States.

The Raisina Dialogue is a multilateral conference committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the global community. Every year, global leaders in policy, business, media, and civil society are hosted in New Delhi to discuss cooperation on a wide range of pertinent international policy matters. The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India #Raisina2021

At the Raisina Dialogue 2020, Hamid Karzai (Former President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) spoke to Robin Niblett (President, Chatham House, United Kingdom), where they discussed the United States' presence in Afghanistan. Karzai and Niblett deliberated upon the extent to which the United States could exercise control in Afghanistan, with Karzai insisting on the Afghan people's right to live with dignity in their own country.

The Raisina Dialogue is a multilateral conference committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the global community. Every year, global leaders in policy, business, media and civil society are hosted in New Delhi to discuss cooperation on a wide range of pertinent international policy matters.

The Dialogue is structured as a multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral discussion, involving heads of state, cabinet ministers and local government officials, as well as major private sector executives, members of the media and academics.

The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation in collaboration with the Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs

#RaisinaDialogue #RaisinaDialogue2020 #Raisina2020

The 6th Edition of the Raisina Dialogue, jointly organised by the Observer Research Foundation and the Ministry of External Affairs, was held virtually from 13-16 April 2021. The Dialogue was inaugurated by a message by the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

The Chief Guests for the inaugural session were:

Paul Kagame, President, Rwanda

Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister, Denmark

and Vote of thanks

V. Muraleedharan, Minister of State, External Affairs, India

 
The theme for the 2021 Edition is "#ViralWorld: Outbreaks, Outliers and Out of Control”.

The Raisina Dialogue has grown in stature and profile to emerge as a leading global conference on international affairs. It attracts leading minds from the global strategic and policy-making community to discuss broader foreign policy and strategic issues facing the world.

Often ignored in discussions about strongman politics is how women are steadily cementing their place in the halls of power. How are women leaders affecting political outcomes around the world? How have countries and cities benefited from women's leadership? How can corporate practices strengthen efforts at promoting women's leadership? This panel at Raisina Dialogue 2020 discussed how women leaders are scripting stories of change around the world.

Moderator:
Joanna Roper (Special Envoy for Gender Equality, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom)

Panelists:
Smriti Irani (Minister of Women & Child Development, Minister of Textiles, India)
Helen Clark (Former Prime Minister, New Zealand; Member, WLA-Club de Madrid)
Esther Brimmer (Executive Director & CEO, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, United States)
Eleni Kounalakis (Lieutenant Governor of California, United States)
Patricia Scotland (Secretary-General, Commonwealth Secretariat)

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Introduction music credit: 'Rising Spirits' by Jay Man.

Russia is a significant global player as well as an important strategic partner of India. In this episode of the Raisina podcast we talk not only about the role of Russia in the modern world but look at some domestic issues faced by Russia. We discuss these maters with Dr. Vyacheslav Nikonov, a member of the Russian parliament (Duma).

Dr. Nikonov has been a member of the staff of Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin and is thus well versed with the intricacies of Russian domestic and foreign policies.

Follow Nandan Unnikrishnan on Twitter: @jonandan

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Introduction music credit: 'Rising Spirits' by Jay Man.

A crisis of identity has gripped the EU’s foreign policy. The continent is caught between its Atlantic moorings and its growing equity in Asia. As the EU invests more resources and energy in Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, will it find that its interests in these regions do not fully converge with those of its principal partner, the US? Will the EU engage with China and Russia to secure its political future? Will such new priorities strain its partnership with the US and can a stronger relationship with India provide the EU more room to maneuver? This panel, at Raisina Dialogue 2020, asks whether there exists a European consensus on these issues and explores how the continent is responding to shifts in the global balance of power.

Moderator:
Ali Aslan, Anchor, Germany - @AslanTV

Panelists:
Gen. Claudio Graziano, Chairman, European Union Military Committee - @ChairmanEUMC
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary
Theresa Fallon, Founder and Director, Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies, Ireland - @TheresaAFallon
Marina Kaljurand, Member of European Parliament, Estonia - @MarinaKaljurand
Hans-Thomas Paulsen, Member of the Executive Board, Körber-Stiftung, Germany

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Introduction music credit: 'Rising Spirits' by Jay Man.

The struggle against terrorism has dual frontlines: both weak or militarised states, and platforms and online communities that have been weaponised by recruiters and purveyors of radicalisation. What tools does the global community have to punish behaviour from states that have traditionally viewed “non-state actors” as a tool rather than a threat – or in which significant and entrenched interests have sympathy for officially disavowed terror organisations’ goals? And can a global response to terror ignore the online spaces that serve as incubators of terror? The panel called for global condemnation of nation-states providing safe haven to terror groups.

Moderator:
Yalda Hakim (Journalist, BBC World News, Australia): @BBCYaldaHakim

Panelists:
Gen. Bipin Rawat (Chief of Defence Staff, India)
Stephen Harper (Former Prime Minister, Canada): @stephenharper
Saad Mohseni (CEO, Moby Group, Australia): @saadmohseni
Gareth Bayley (Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan, United Kingdom)
Erin Saltman (Head of Counter-Terrorism Policy (Europe, Middle East & Africa), Facebook, United States): @ErinSaltman


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Introduction music credit: 'Rising Spirits' by Jay Man.