Working Out a Work Revolution in the Digital Age
Creating 12 million jobs a year is a challenge for any government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems well aware of it.
Shivnath Thukral
Managing Director, Carnegie India
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Shivnath Thukral is no longer with Carnegie India.
Shivnath Thukral was the managing director of Carnegie India responsible for the center’s outreach and maximizing its impact. He also oversees operations, including coordination with Carnegie’s global network and fundraising.
Thukral spent the first fifteen years of his career with New Delhi Television Limited, India’s premier TV news channel. He was the channel’s leading face for business news and policy analysis and also established the business channel NDTV Profit in 2003 where he was the managing editor.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Thukral worked as the group president of corporate branding and strategic initiatives at Essar, a $35 billion corporation. He led its marketing efforts, including strategic and digital communications for the group across the world.
Thukral has been a speaker at numerous global events including the World Economic Forum and the Milken Institute conference, as well as Indian industry summits on issues ranging from India’s economic policies, domestic politics, and the impact of new digital technologies on society.
Thukral interned in the U.S. Senate and was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2012.
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Who Owns Personal Data: Technology and Policy Frameworks
August 16, 2017
Increasing connectivity has raised fundamental questions about data ownership and user privacy that have not been adequately addressed in current legal and policy frameworks.
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- Nandan Nilekani,
- Sanjay Jain,
- Sharad Sharma,
- Rahul Matthan,
- Shivnath Thukral
Adoption of Electric Vehicles in Karnataka: Route to a Definitive Roadmap
June 10, 2017
In India, mass adoption of electric vehicles could potentially render a number of benefits, including reduced air pollution, increased employment, and greater industrialization.
Technopolis: Future Is Closer Than You Think
The fast pace of technology offers India an opportunity to embrace the changes that such advances brings and to use those advances to solve critical problems facing the country.
President Trump and India’s New Imperatives
April 4, 2017
As Carnegie India completes its first year in New Delhi, they hosted a reflection on the extraordinary turbulence in the international system today and the policy challenges that it presents for India
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- Indrani Bagchi,
- Sanjaya Baru,
- William J. Burns,
- C. Raja Mohan,
- Ashley J. Tellis,
- Shivnath Thukral
Bots and Botching Up of Elections
Political bots are playing a major role in how an average voter consumes news and information.
How India Can Turn Pending American Legislation Against Immigration, Which Targets Indian IT, Into an Opportunity
India needs to think about what matters to it both economically and politically. It must be able to turn adversity into opportunity.
Budget: A Worthy Political Tool
Budgets can never be made in isolation without thinking of their political benefits.
India’s Long-term Growth Prospects
January 23, 2017
Despite India’s impressive economic growth rates in the mid-2000s, the long-term magnitude and sustainability of this progress remains uncertain.
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- Shivnath Thukral ,
- V. Anantha Nageswaran,
- Siddharth Singh,
- TCA Srinivasa Raghavan
‘Start-ups Require More Agile Forms of Access to Capital’
Regulation and innovation need to be in sync if India is to take advantage of the digital revolution, and policy research is a critical input towards harmonizing the two.