On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 from 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Pacific, Asia Society Northern California will host a virtual program marking India's 75th Independence Day, with Ambassador Kenneth I. Juster, Senior Counselor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and former United States Ambassador to the Republic of India, and Professor C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute in Delhi. 

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The public webinar program will be followed by a virtual VIP Reception from 7:00 p.m. - 7:20 p.m. Pacific. The VIP Reception is a special benefit for Board, Advisory Council, Groundbreaker and Innovator Members and is a private and off-the-record discussion with direct access to our speakers. Board, Advisory Council, Groundbreaker and Innovator Members will receive a link to join the VIP Reception the week of our program. To become a Groundbreaker or Innovator Member, visit here or contact [email protected].

AGENDA

Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 from 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Pacific

• 6:00 p.m. Program Begins
• 7:00 p.m. Program Concludes
• 7:00 p.m. VIP Reception for Board, Advisory Council, Groundbreaker and Innovator Members with Direct Access to Speakers
• 7:20 p.m. VIP Reception Concludes

This is a Virtual Event

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SPEAKER BIOS

Ambassador Kenneth I. Juster has over 40 years of experience as a senior government official, senior law partner, and senior business executive. He is Senior Counselor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP where he advises on cross-border and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on the United States and India. Juster served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the Republic of India from November 2017 to January 2021. Prior to serving as Ambassador, Juster was the Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. Learn more here.

C. Raja Mohan is a Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute in Delhi — a division of the Asia Society India Centre, Mumbai. He is a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, and was previously the Director of ISAS. Mohan was the founding director of Carnegie India in Delhi, the sixth international center of Carnegie Endowment for Peace. He was associated with several Indian think tanks, including the Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses, the Observer Research Foundation, and the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. Mohan was a Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. He served on India’s National Security Advisory Board. He was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Kluge Center, US Library of Congress, Washington DC, during 2009-10. He convened the India chapter of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, during 1995-2005. Mohan has published widely on India’s foreign and security policies, Asian geopolitics, and the global governance of advanced technologies. In his most recent, Mohan co-authored the Adelphi Book, The New Asian Geopolitics: Military Power and Regional Order published by the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London in 2021. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy and the Indian Express.