'India Can Show Way To The World On...': PM Modi After Meeting With Academicians And Think Tanks Group In New York

<p>During his US visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met a group of eminent US academics today in New York, USA. The academics hailed from diverse fields of agriculture, marketing, engineering, technology and health. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi took to Twitter and said, "Energising India-US knowledge partnership. PM @narendramodi interacted with a group of eminent US academics hailing from diverse fields of agriculture, marketing, engineering, health, science &amp; technology."</p> <p>"Talks focused on possibilities of enhancing research collaborations and two-way academic exchanges under India's New Education Policy. Academics also shared perspectives and experiences from their respective areas of expertise," he added.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Energising 🇮🇳-🇺🇸 knowledge partnership.<br /><br />PM <a href="https://twitter.com/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@narendramodi</a> interacted with a group of eminent US academics hailing from diverse fields of agriculture, marketing, engineering, health, science &amp; technology.<br /><br />Talks focused on possibilities of enhancing research collaborations and&hellip; <a href="https://t.co/uxgAXpegy7">pic.twitter.com/uxgAXpegy7</a></p> &mdash; Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) <a href="https://twitter.com/MEAIndia/status/1671319855054704641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2023</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>PM Modi also met Essayist and Statistician professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author and Academic Professor Robert Thurman, co-founder of hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio, Professor Paul Romer, and American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator Neil De Grasse Tyson.</p> <p>After meeting PM Modi, Professor Paul Romer said that it was a great meeting. He also said that India can show the way to the world on the authentication front with programs like Aadhaar. "It was a great meeting. We talked about the importance of successful urban development. He understands these issues very well. PM articulated it very well that urbanisation is not a problem. It&rsquo;s an opportunity. I take this as a slogan. India can show the way to the World on the authentication front with programs like Aadhaar," Romer said, as quoted by ANI.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WATCH</a> | Professor Paul Romer after meeting PM Modi in New York, says "It was a great meeting. We talked about the importance of successful urban development. He understands these issues very well. PM articulated it very well that urbanisation is not a problem. It&rsquo;s an&hellip; <a href="https://t.co/rSPfW8p576">pic.twitter.com/rSPfW8p576</a></p> &mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1671331475176976384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2023</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>Essayist and Statistician Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who also met PM Modi in New York said, "I connect with the Prime Minister. We sat down, he mentioned Antifragile, we spoke about bouncing back from adversity, and about central risk-taking. It was wonderful and I also commended India on the response to COVID and how India very efficiently dealt with it, particularly with the food, the distribution and all of that," as quoted by ANI.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WATCH</a> | New York: Essayist and Statistician Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb after meeting PM Modi in New York, says "I connect with the Prime Minister. We sat down, he mentioned Antifragile, we spoke about bouncing back from adversity, and about central risk-taking. It was&hellip; <a href="https://t.co/uq3My55caC">pic.twitter.com/uq3My55caC</a></p> &mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1671306287265742849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2023</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>The details of academics who participated in the interaction are as follows: Dr. Robert J Jones, Crop scientist, accomplished vocalist and Chancellor of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, President of Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor, University of California, San Diego; Dr. Satish Tripathi, President of the University at Buffalo &amp; Co-Chair of the Association of American Universities Task Force on Expanding US-India Universities Partnerships; Professor Jagmohan Raju, Professor of Marketing, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Madhav V. Rajan, Dean, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Professor Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science, Ohio State University; Dr. Anurag Mairal, Adjunct Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University &amp; Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation &amp; Impact at Center for Innovation &amp; Global Health, Stanford University.</p> <p>PM Modi also met with the Think Tanks group. The various think-tank experts who participated in the interaction include: Michael Froman, President-designate and Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Daniel Russel, Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute, Dr. Max Abrahms, Associate Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, Boston; Jeff M. Smith, Director, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation, DC; Elbridge Colby, Co-founder of 'The Marathon Initiative', based in Washington DC and Guru Sowle, Founder-member, Director (Indo-US Affairs), Indus International Research Foundation, Texas.</p> <p>The Health Experts group consisting of Dr. Peter Hotez, Founding Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, Texas; Dr. Sunil A. David, CEO of ViroVax based in Texas, engaged in research of vaccines; Dr. Stephen Klasko, Advisor to General Catalyst; Dr. Lawton R. Burns, Professor of Healthcare Management, and Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Vivian S. Lee, Teaches at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Peter Agre, Physician, Nobel laureate and molecular biologist, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, also interacted with PM Modi.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Subscribe And Follow ABP Live On Telegram:</strong> <a title="https://ift.tt/1zDo38L" href="https://ift.tt/1zDo38L" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://ift.tt/yASOQ3g> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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