RUNDOWN:
12:15     Registration
12:30     Opening remarks
12:40     Panel Discussion
13:30     Q&A/Roundtable discussion with registrants
14:00     End

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A selection of sandwiches, fruit, salad, and beverages will be provided.

In a surprise result announced on June 4, Indian Prime Minister Modi’s party won re-election but with a much weaker mandate than expected, forcing him to form a coalition government. What are the reasons underlying this result, and where will Modi go from here?  What will this result mean for India domestically and its relations with the rest of the world?

Join Asia Society Hong Kong Center for an informal lunch roundtable offering analysis and discussion of the election results featuring Debasish Roy Chowdhury, a journalist, researcher, and author, and Sagina Walyat, a lawyer, policymaker, researcher, educator and founder of The Beacon of Rights, in conversation with ASHK Scholar in Residence Professor Alejandro Reyes.

Debasish Roy Chowdhury is a journalist, researcher, and author based in Hong Kong. He recently co-authored ‘To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism’ (OUP/Pan Macmillan). He has also lived and worked in Calcutta, Sao Paulo, Hua Hin, Bangkok and Beijing, and reported from Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Nepal and Qatar. He is a Jefferson Fellow and a recipient of multiple media prizes, including the Human Rights Press Award, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award and the Hong Kong News Award. His recent writings are available on Muck Rack.

Born in Manila, educated in the US and UK, and a Canadian, Professor Alejandro Reyes is Senior Fellow at the Centre on Contemporary China and the World (CCCW), The University of Hong Kong and is a Scholar-in-Residence of Asia Society Hong Kong Center. He was previously adjunct professor and director of knowledge dissemination at the Asia Global Institute, the think tank on global issues at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he managed the digital journal AsiaGlobal Online. Prior to joining the Institute, he was the senior policy adviser to the assistant deputy minister for Asia Pacific and set up and led the Asia-Pacific policy planning unit at Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian foreign ministry. He had previously served in the department in 2002 as a senior policy adviser to the Canadian foreign minister, working on the G8 and a review of Canadian foreign policy.

Sagina Walyat is a lawyer, policymaker, researcher, visiting faculty member and a founder of ‘The Beacon of Rights’, and shares a profound commitment to women’s rights and social justice addressing crucial issues such as gender, justice, equality, women's legal and digital rights. She is an Asia Global Institute Fellow at The University of Hong Kong and delegate at the Australia India Youth Dialogue, she is an advocate for feminist diplomacy and Artificial Intelligence.

Her accolades include prestigious fellowships, honorary positions and awards, notably an award by Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India (GoI) in legal/policy and Australia’s Stellar South Asian Women Awards in Global Category and also have been invited for various global summits, including World Women Summit by Clinton Presidential Centre and duly deliver on her responsibilities as President SAARC Business Council- South Asia WICCI.

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