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Safir Anand was invited to speak at the Global Business Summit 2020 (GBS) on 7th March 2020, at Taj Palace, New Delhi.

Organized by The Economic Times, the Summit had ‘Collaborate to Create: Sustainable Growth in a Fractured World’  as its theme- a nod to the defining problem facing both India and the world, as well as a pointer to what powerful stakeholders must do.

The event had Shri Narendra Modi, our Honourable Prime Minister, as the Chief Guest; Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance; Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and Commerce; Mr Ajay Piramal, Chairman of Piramal Group; Mr Narayan Murthy, Co-Founder of Infosys; Mr Ajit Mohan, Vice President and Managing Director of Facebook India; Mr Vineet Jain, Managing director and Director of Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group); Mr Deepinder Goyal, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Zomato, et al. among eminent attendees.

The annual Global Business Summit is South Asia’s foremost gathering of visionaries, business and government leaders, academia, heads of states, policymakers, organizations, entrepreneurs, innovators, start-ups, and corporate heads;  offering an ideal platform to explore and foster commercial alliances, bilateral cooperation, and investments, for sustainable growth through trade and alliances across the world.

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