AIYD 2020 

SUMMARY

The delegates from Australia and India will converge for the ninth AIYD dialogue in Delhi and Chennai from the 15th to 18th January 2020. The theme this year will be 2035: Creating our Sustainable Future, where we explore, discuss and collaborate on the following sub themes :

1. Traditional Strengths: Education, Services and Trade.

2. Leadership and Diplomacy: Roadmap to 2035.

3. Looking Forward: Innovation and Partnerships.

4. Cultural Ties: People to People.

The program has an impressive line up of eminent speakers, interactive sessions and exercises for delegate to explore opportunities together and shape the dialogue as contributors of Australia and India relationship.

Speakers

• Senator The Hon. Marise Payne, Senator for New South Wales & Australian Minister for Foreign ...

• Ashok Vardhan Shetty, Assistant Vice Chancellor at Indian Maritime University, Chennai

• Raj Cherubal, CEO of Chennai Smart City Limited (CSCL)

• Anita Ratnam, Dancer, mythteller, feminist, cultural activist

• Ms Susan Grace, Career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

• Dr. Kalanidhi Veerasamy MP, Member of Parliament - North Chennai, Politician, Joint Secretary

• Hemendra Marthur, Venture Partner with Bharat Innovation Fund

• Dr Julian Droogan, Sr. Lecturer, Dept. of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University

• Margaret Faux, Founder & CEO, Synapse Medical Services

• Merrill Cherian, Partner at KPMG India

• Ricky Kej, Grammy Winning Music Composer

• Rohini Rau, Doctor

• Tania Rhodes-Taylor, Vice Principal- External Relations, The University of Sydney

• Tanya Spisbah, Director, Australia India Institute

• Achyutha Sharma, Brand, Design and Marketing

• Dr Tobias Feakin, Australian Ambassador for Cyber Affairs

• Arun Mohan Sukumar, PhD candidate at The Fletcher School

• Dr. Darren Lim, Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations ...

• Erin Watson-Lynn, Perth USAsia Centre’s Senior Fellow

• Ms Michelle Wade, Commissioner to South Asia State Government of Victoria, Australia

• Priya Sahgal, Senior executive editor at NewsX channel

• Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India and also ...

• Varghese George, Founder CEO & Managing Director of ExtentorTquila

• Anand Barot, Director of Stratospheric Entertainment Pvt Limited (SEPL)

• Ambassador Anil Wadhwa, Member of the Indian Foreign Service from 1979 to 2017

• Daniel Mookhey MLC, Member of the Legislative Council

• Padmashri Deepa Malik, FIRST FEMALE PARA-ATHLETE in India to win a medal at ...

• Prof. James Curran, Professor, Department of History

• Jyoti Malhotra, National and Strategic Affairs editor at The Print website in ...

• Melissa Conley Tyler, Director of Diplomacy at Asialink, University of Melbourne

• Dr. Rajeswari Pillai, Head, Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative at the Observer Research ...

• Ram Madhav, Indian politician, writer and journalist

• Dr. Bec Strating, Acting Executive Director, La Trobe Asia

• Rishabh Gulati, Managing Editor, NewsX.

• Rod Hilton, Australia's Deputy High Commissioner to India

• Smita Sharma, Independent Journalist

• Sonam Wangchuk, Founder SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh)