Envisioning India
India, one of the world's largest economies and the world’s largest democracy, is a key focus of IIEP. India’s rapid growth, poverty reduction, growing inequalities, and impact on climate change as well as the increasing importance of U.S.-India economic and strategic relations make its future development and challenges an area of great interest at IIEP.
IIEP advances research and dialogue on India through two primary efforts: a major conference series on U.S.–India economic relations and a broader body of faculty research and programming. During the pandemic, IIEP also hosted a virtual Envisioning India series on YouTube.
The GW India conferences convenes leading scholars, policymakers, and private sector executives to examine key issues in economic development and bilateral relations. Keynote speakers have included V. Anantha Nageswaran, 18th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India; Indermit Gill, Chief Economist of the World Bank; Vivek Lall, Chief Executive of General Atomics Global Corporation; Arun Kumar, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service; and Arvind Subramanian, 16th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. Explore the GW India Conference Series.
IIEP faculty and affiliated scholars, including Distinguished Visiting Scholar Ajay Chhibber, regularly publish articles, op-eds, books, and working papers focused on India’s economy and U.S.-India economic relations. Dr. Chhibber published Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival(2021) with Salman Anees Soz. Unshackling India was featured in an Elliott School Book Launch Series and was selected by the Financial times as one of the best books of 2022 - Economics.
April 16, 2026 - 8:30 AM
6th GW India Conference
April 24, 2025 - 8:30 AM
5th GW India Conference on India’s Economic Development and U.S.-India Economic Relations
April 16, 2024 - 9:00 AM
4th GW India Conference on India’s Economic Development and U.S.-India Economic Relations
April 20, 2023 - 5:00 PM
U.S. India Cooperation in a Changing Global Economy and India’s Pathways to Success
March 2, 2023 - 9:00 AM
Ashoka Mody on “India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today”