Minister scheduled to speak at CSIS and Peterson Institute.
AB Wire
WASHINGTON, DC: Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley, who will lead the Indian delegation at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group later this week, will kick-start his Washington visit Wednesday, with a speech on the US-India business relations at a think-tank here.
The minister will deliver the keynote address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on the “Deepening the U.S.-India commercial partnership: the first year of the Modi government” on Wednesday afternoon.
Other prominent speakers at the event include Catherine A. Novelli, the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and Environment at the US Department of State; Arun M. Kumar, Assistant Secretary for Global Markets at the US Department of Commerce; Rajiv Mehrishi, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance; and Romesh Wadhwani, Chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group.
On Thursday morning, Jaitley will discuss the reform of India’s indirect tax system at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on April 16, 2015.
The primary mission of the minister’s visit is to attend the IMF-World Bank spring meetings, which will be held here from April 17 to 19.
Besides Jaitley and Mehrishi, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, and State Bank of India Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya are part of the Indian delegation.
This is the first Jaitley’s first visit to Washington as finance minister. He could not attend the 2014 annual meetings held in October due to health reasons.