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Law and Economy Policy Conference 2016 (LEPC - 2016)

By Prasad Krishna · Published

The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in collaboration with the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) is organising India’s first “Law Economics Policy Conference (LEPC-2016)”. The aim is to bring together legal, economic and policy thinkers to consider policy issues in a holistic manner.

The conference is guided by an eminent Steering Committee constituting Mr. Bahram Vakil (Senior Partner, AZB & Partners), Justice B.N. Srikrishna (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India), Prof. Rathin Roy (Director, NIPFP), Mr. Somasekhar Sundaresan (Advocate, Independent Legal Counsel), Mr. Rajeev Kapoor (Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration), Ms. Sunanda Nair (Director, INET) and Prof. Ajay Shah (Professor, NIPFP).

The conference will be organized from September 28 to 30, 2016 at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The draft programme is available here. Keynote Speech will be given by Shri Arun Jaitley - Honourable Minister of Finance, Government of India. Sunil Abraham will be serving as a discussant on the "Towards a privacy framework for India" session of this conference.

For more information, log on to Macro/Finance Group: Meetings