Past Speakers

Zoya Akhtar
Film Director and Screenwriter
Abhijit Banerjee
Economist
Piyush Goyal
Politician, Minister of Commerce and Industry
SY Quraishi
Former Chief Election Commissioner of India
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Founder, Biocon Limited
Barkha Dutt
Television Journalist and Author
Vinod Rai
Former IAS officer, Chairman of the UN Panel of External Auditors
Amartya Sen
Economist and Philosopher
R Madhavan
Actor and Screenwriter
Nitin Gadkari
Politician, Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India
Deepa Malik
International Para Athlete and Olympic Medalist
Shashi Tharoor
Politician, Member of Lok Sabha
Rajat Sharma
Journalist and Businessperson
Prajakta Koli
Youtuber and Actor
Sunita Narain
Environmentalist and Political Activist
Palki Sharma
Journalist
P Chidambaram
Politician
Nirupama Rao
Former Indian Foreign Service Officer
Harish Salve
Former Solicitor General of India
Vqueeram Aditya Sahai
Writer, Researcher, LGBTQIA Activist
Smriti Zubin Irani
Politician
Khalid Ansari
Businessperson and Journalist
Gaurav Dalmia
Chairperson, Dalmia Group Holdings
Alok Mittal
Founder and CEO of Indifi
Aditya Thackeray
Politician
Aroon Purie
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, India Today
Rohan Joshi
Comedian
Madhabi Puri Buch
Chairperson, SEBI
Karisma Kapoor
Actor
Radhika Gupta
MD and CEO, Edelweiss Group
Upasana Taku
Co-Founder, MobiKwik
Indermit Gill
Chief Economist, World Bank
Niren Chaudhary
Chairman, Panera Brands
Sugata Bose
Historian and Politician
Sunil Vachani
Founder and Chairman of India-listed Dixon Technologies
Rehan A. Khan
MD, MSD India Region
Rakesh Mohan
Economist, Former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Pranay Agarwal
CEO, Fractal Analytics
Beena Pallical
General Secretary at National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
Pooja Bhatt
Actor and Director
Tanushree Goyal
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University
Shekhar Gupta
Journalist, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, ThePrint
Santa Khurai
Writer, Gender-rights Activist, Artist
RK Singh
Former Indian bureaucrat and a current Union Cabinet Minister
Tara Betielle
Economist
Azim Premji
Chairman, WIPRO Ltd.
Ajay Prakash Sawhney
Former IAS officer
Jitendra Gupta
Founder & CEO, Jupiter
Naveen Jindal
Industrialist, Philanthropist, and Sportsperson
Adwaita Nayar
CEO of Nykaa Fashion and is Co-Founder of Nykaa
Ameera Shah
MD, Metropolis Healthcare
RS Praveen Kumar
Former IPS Officer
Neelkanth Mishra
Cheif Economist, Axis Bank
Sumant Sinha
Chairman and CEO, Renew
Devarajan Nambakam
MD, Golman Sachs India
Kenneth Juster
Former Ambassador of the USA to India
Vir Das
Comedian and Actor
Pullela Gopichand
Chief Coach, Indian National Badminton Team
Faye D'Souza
Journalist, Entrepreneur
Adar Poonawalla
CEO, Serum Institute of India