SPP Hosts Indian Business Leaders
About 30 senior managers and executives from Indian
public sector energy and utility companies recently
met with SPP staff and attended a series of lectures
about U.S. energy policies in the global context.
During the SPP-sponsored visit, on Sept. 18, 19 and
20, Congressman Eni Faleomvaega, a senior member of
the House International Relations, Small Business and
Resources Committees, spoke about U.S. political processes;
Victoria Bailey, former assistant secretary of energy,
spoke about the international energy policy of the
current administration; Tojo Thatchenkery, an SPP faculty
member and coordinator of the event, delivered a lecture
about Indian social capital and the competitiveness
of Indian firms in the United States; and Dr. Roger
Stough, associate dean of research and external linkages,
spoke about public entrepreneurship. The lectures were
followed by a dinner reception attended by Dean Kingsley
Haynes, the Indian guests, SPP faculty members and
several prominent Indian Americans in the Washington
metropolitan area.
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SPP
faculty members and guest speakers spent
three days visiting with high-level business
leaders
from India’s public sector energy and
utility companies.
Left-to-Right
: Professor Vinod Kalia of the Management Development
Institute, Gurgaon, India,
Congressman Eni Faleomvaega, Mr. Nalin Jain,
SBDC of Mason Enterprise Center, and Professor Tojo
Thatchenkery, SPP faculty member and coordinator
of the SPP-MDI
Advanced
Management
Training Program on Sept 19, 2004 in ARL campus |
“It was a great pleasure to have senior executives
from a number of large public sector companies interacting
with those from the government and private sector in
the United States,” Dr. Stough said.
The U.S. India Political Action Committee (USINPAC),
a bi-partisan PAC representing the interests of Indian
Americans at all levels of government, cosponsored
the event. The Small Business Development Center at
Arlington helped coordinate the event.
“The visit of senior executives is first in
a series of already planned interchanges between the
School of Public Policy and institutions like the Management
Development Institute,” Thatchenkery said.
The group was in the United States as part of an Advanced
Management Program sponsored by the Management Development
Institute near Delhi, a top Indian business school.
