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Career Opportunity at CASI: Online Editor
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2008 Conference on Dalit Agendas: Emancipation, Citizenship, and Empowerment
Conference Site

 
 
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Banias and Beyond: The Dynamics of Caste and Big Business in Modern India
Harish Damodaran

Is Larry Summers the canary in the mine?
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Are the Indian armed forces facing a human capital crisis?
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R. Gopalakrishnan


David Good


The Tata Group and the Globalization of Indian Corporates


Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan
Executive Director of Tata Sons

and

Mr. David Good
Chief Representative of Tata Sons in North America

Date & Venue:
January 25, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Huntsman Hall, Room 250, 3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia

 
   
  Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan is executive director of Tata Sons, chairman of Rallis India and vice-chairman of Tata Chemicals. He is a director of several Tata Group companies such as Tata Motors, Tata Power and Tata Internet Services. He also serves on the board of two non-Tata companies, ICI and Castrol India. A key member of the Tata Group Executive Office, Mr. Gopalakrishnan plays a vital role in providing direction and impetus to the Group's forays into potentially viable areas of the new economy. A graduate in physics from Calcutta University, Mr. Gopalakrishnan also has a degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

David Good, who heads Tata’s office in the United States, joined the US State Department in 1971 after graduating in political science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. After 34 years in the Department, serving in the State Department, the US Information Agency and in diplomatic postings in India and West Asia, he was made the US consul general in Mumbai, a position he held from 1999 to 2002. Good retired in 2004 as director of the Department's Washington DC office for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives affairs.