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Abstract

BRICS has emerged as an influential platform in the evolving global order, challenging traditional structures of international economic and political governance. India occupies a significant position within BRICS, balancing its commitment to strategic autonomy with its expanding partnership with the United States. India’s engagement with BRICS reflects its interests in strengthening the Global South, promoting multipolarity, and enhancing economic cooperation. At the same time, its relationship with the US remains crucial for trade, technology, defence, and regional security. This webinar examines India’s strategic position between BRICS and the US, exploring opportunities, challenges, and its implications for the changing global geopolitical landscape.

Short Bios

Dr. Arvind Virmani

Arvind Virmani is Chairman of the Foundation for Economic Growth and Welfare (EGROW). He was member of NIti Aayog and President of the Forum For Strategic Initiatives (FSI, Delhi). He has been a Mentor (economic policy) to FICCI & a member of RBI Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary policy. He was earlier Executive Director, IMF and Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance and Principal Advisor, Planning Commission. During his tenure he advised on a host of economic policy reforms, through 100s of policy papers, notes and committees. He has served as Member, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and as Director & Chief executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He has published 35 journal articles and 20 book chapters and written over 50 other working papers in the areas of Macroeconomics, growth and finance, tax reform, International trade & Tariffs, International relations, and national security strategy.

Rakesh Mohan Joshi

Prof. Rakesh Mohan Joshi is Former Vice Chancellor at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), the premier B-School under Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. Prof. Joshi, a senior professor and former Dean at IIFT was on deputation to Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bengaluru, as Director. Prof. Joshi, a gold medallist from IIFT, received his education and training from Harvard Business School, Boston; IIFT, Rajasthan University and National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal. He authored highly popular books from Oxford University Press and had been the Editor of the prestigious quarterly journal of IIFT, Foreign Trade Review (FTR). Prof. Joshi has extensive trans-national exposure and has been associated with several multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, UNCTAD, International Dairy Federation, Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) etc. Prof. Joshi had been the Chairman of the ‘UGC Committee for Framing the Regulations for Foreign Educational Institutes’ and Chairman of the Expert Group for “Development of Educational Framework for Global Citizenship in Higher Education Institutions” 2021. Presently, he is also the Chairman of the Business Services Sectional Committee, Bureau of Indian Standards, Government of India. He is also on the Council of Management, All India Management Association (AIMA) Prof. Joshi has a strong inclination to research Internationalization of Indian Culture and has carried out a major research Project on “Implications of Bhagwat Geeta in Contemporary Management” by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).

Marc-Andreas Muendler

Marc-Andreas Muendler is a Professor in the Economics Department at the University of California, San Diego, a Research Professor at ifo Institute in Munich, a Guest Professor at the University of St. Gallen, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has published in leading economic journals on the origins of globalization and its consequences for local industries and labor markets, firm dynamics and entrepreneurship, and information economics. He has worked as a consultant to the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and private businesses, and as a consulting researcher for the Brazilian census bureau and labor ministry, the German central bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. Marc Muendler founded and directs the Globalization and Prosperity lab (GP-lab) at UC San Diego.

Otaviano Canuto

Otaviano Canuto is Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, a division of more than 700 economists and public sector specialists working on economic policy advice, technical assistance, and lending for reducing poverty in the World Bank’s client countries. He took up his position in May 2009, after serving as the Vice President for Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank since June 2007. Dr. Canuto provides strategic leadership and direction on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and governance. He is involved in managing the Bank’s overall interactions with key partner institutions including the IMF and others. He has lectured and written widely on economic growth, financial crisis management, and regional development, with recent work on financial crisis and economic growth in Latin America.