Monday, October 30th, 2017 China: the Dragon's Decade

DateTimeLocation
Monday, October 30, 20173:00PM - 4:30PMSeminar Room 108N, 1 Devonshire Place

Description

An interactive discussion with Samir Saran of New Delhi’s Observer Research Foundation and Shuvaloy Majumdar, Munk Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Anchored around China’s unprecedented rise, the discussion will be broken into three parts, including 1) India, Canada and the Liberal Order; 2) Himalayan Faceoff: India and China; and 3) Hacking Democracy: Internet & the State.

Contact

Shannon Garden-Smith (ai.coordinator@utoronto.ca)
(416) 946-8842

Speakers

Janice Stein
Chair
Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs University Professor, University of Toronto

Samir Saran
Speaker
Samir Saran is Vice President of the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He spearheads ORF’s outreach and business development activities. He curates Raisina Dialogue, India’s annual flagship platform on geopolitics and geo-economics, and chairs CyFy, India’s annual conference on cyber security and internet governance. Samir is Commissioner of The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, and a member of the South Asia advisory board of the World Economic Forum as well as part of its Global Future Council on Cybersecurity. He is Director of the Centre for Peace and Security at the Sardar Patel Police University, Jodhpur, India.

Shuvaloy Majumdar
Speaker
Shuvaloy Majumdar is a Munk Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In Ottawa, between 2011 and 2015, he served as the policy director to successive Canadian foreign ministers, as well as senior policy advisor to its minister for international development. Shuvaloy was based in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006 to 2010, where he led the International Republican Institute (IRI), a Washington-based nonpartisan organization chaired by US Senator John McCain. He co-founded an anti-human trafficking organization in Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2003, for which he was recognized with the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal. Shuvaloy was a visiting foreign policy scholar at the University of British Columbia’s Liu Institute for Global Studies from 2010 to 2012.

Main Sponsor

Asian Institute

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