Seminar on Asia - Center for Asian Studies

As the global order is reshaped by great-power competition, technological rivalry, and shifting supply chains, geopolitics and geoeconomics have become deeply intertwined. Economic tools - trade agreements, critical technologies, energy networks, and investment flows - are now central to strategic influence. For India, building leverage in this emerging landscape requires balancing strategic autonomy with deeper global economic engagement. The India-EU FTA is an example of the formation of deeper collaboration in the shifting geoeconomic context.

In this talk, Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran will discuss India’s role in the new complex global geopolitical setting.

Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran is the 18th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. Before being appointed CEA, he was a writer, author, teacher and consultant. He wrote a weekly column in Mint on Tuesdays from 2007 until 2022. He has co-authored books on Derivatives, Global Finance and the Indian economy. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1994 for his work on exchange rate behavior. In 1985, he received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He worked in macroeconomic and financial markets research for international financial institutions in Switzerland and Singapore from 1994 to 2011.

Moderator: Dr. Patrik Ström, Director, Center for Asian Studies, Stockholm School of Economics

• Date and Time: Thursday, March 19, 16:00-17:30
• Language: English
• Location: Room Ragnar, Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, Stockholm

Register for the seminar here by March 17.

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