IIMB Director G Raghuram, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, India’s High Commissioner Jawed Ashraf, industry chiefs and IIM alumni meet at Singapore on August 17
IIMPACT 2019 saw about 750 ministers, business leaders, industrialists, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) alumni and a Nobel Laureate gather at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre in Singapore on August 17. Singapore’s Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing was the guest of honour at the event, which was themed ‘How to take charge in a disrupted future and how to be active participants in shaping the future?’
The event, first hosted in 2005, was organised by the PAN-IIM alumni in Singapore which is home to over 1,800 IIM alumni. IIM Bangalore Director Professor G Raghuram was present.
This year the forum had in attendance for the first time a Nobel Peace Prize recipient in Kailash Satyarthi. Addressing the forum, the child rights activist called for a UN convention to deal with the issue of digital child sexual abuse and trafficking. “What I am working on and demand (that) a legally binding UN Convention to stop digital abuse of children and child trafficking,” Satyarthi said. “We need strong champions who can bring this issue, not in this General Assembly in September because it is too short, but next year. We have to build it with strong demand.”
High Commissioner of India to Singapore Jawed Ashraf gave a keynote address on Geopolitics 4.0 exploring the effects of digitisation on geopolitics and its influence on international relations. The Indian envoy was also honoured with the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ for his “tireless contribution to building and nurturing the Singapore-India relationship.”
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IIMB Director G Raghuram, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, India’s High Commissioner Jawed Ashraf, industry chiefs and IIM alumni meet at Singapore on August 17
IIMPACT 2019 saw about 750 ministers, business leaders, industrialists, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) alumni and a Nobel Laureate gather at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre in Singapore on August 17. Singapore’s Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing was the guest of honour at the event, which was themed ‘How to take charge in a disrupted future and how to be active participants in shaping the future?’
The event, first hosted in 2005, was organised by the PAN-IIM alumni in Singapore which is home to over 1,800 IIM alumni. IIM Bangalore Director Professor G Raghuram was present.
This year the forum had in attendance for the first time a Nobel Peace Prize recipient in Kailash Satyarthi. Addressing the forum, the child rights activist called for a UN convention to deal with the issue of digital child sexual abuse and trafficking. “What I am working on and demand (that) a legally binding UN Convention to stop digital abuse of children and child trafficking,” Satyarthi said. “We need strong champions who can bring this issue, not in this General Assembly in September because it is too short, but next year. We have to build it with strong demand.”
High Commissioner of India to Singapore Jawed Ashraf gave a keynote address on Geopolitics 4.0 exploring the effects of digitisation on geopolitics and its influence on international relations. The Indian envoy was also honoured with the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ for his “tireless contribution to building and nurturing the Singapore-India relationship.”
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