Is Indonesia too good to be true?
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About the Speakers
Prof. V.K. Malhotra
Professor V.K. Malhotra is, presently, Chairman, Food Commission of M.P. constituted under the National Food Security Act, 2013. Prior to his current position, he served as the Member Secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) from 2016 to 2022. He is a Professor of Economics and has worked with the Department of Economics, C.C.S University, Meerut.
He has supervised theses/dissertations of eight Ph.D scholars and more than forty M.Phil scholars. His research interests include Governance and Economic Development, Corporate Governance and Performance of various industries, Intellectual Property Rights and India’s concerns, Foreign Trade and Investments etc. He has done UGC sponsored major research projects on ‘Governance and Development: A Study of Major States of India’ and his own Ph.D. work has been on ‘Economics of Fertiliser Subsidies’. He has a number of papers in reputed national/international journals in areas of his interest. He has to his credit a book entitled ‘Economics of Education’ which is prescribed by many universities. He is on the Board of Indian Council of World Affairs, and a Visitor’s nominee to the Court of Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Delhi. He is also a Member of the Board of many renowned Social Science Research Institutes of the country and is also part of the Executive of many International Research Bodies/Associations.
Dr. Satish Chandra Mishra
Satish Chandra Mishra is the Founder and Executive Director of the Arthashastra Institute in Bali, where he advances India–Indonesia collaboration through economic research, policy dialogue, and cultural exchange. He has held senior roles across international development and policy, including work with the United Nations Capital Development Fund and leadership positions in Strategic Asia initiatives. He advised ministers in Ethiopia during the final years of the Mengistu regime, contributing to the country’s transition, and served as Chief Macro Economist at USAID across 22 African countries. At the OECD, he supported expansion into Eastern Europe and led missions during the Asian Financial Crisis. In Indonesia, with UNDP, he led UNSFIR and produced an award-winning Human Development Report. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.