• Setting an agenda. India Forum provides an important venue for identifying key areas of shared interest and disagreement between Americans, Europeans, and Indians. Sessions on such topics as terrorism, maritime security, and climate negotiations also help to introduce niche issues to a wider audience of non-specialists.
• Building networks. The Forum allows participants from across countries, sectors, and issue-specific communities to interact with one another.
• Fostering a transatlantic India policy community.  The Forum introduces generalists to important discussions involving India and raises the profile of up-and-coming experts.
• Advancing a common understanding of priorities and challenges. India Forum helps participants identify specific policy challenges and share innovative approaches to solving them.

The wide variety of topics covered during the course of discussions have included: directions of India’s foreign policy, securing the global commons, cooperation on climate negotiations and energy security, the future of Afghanistan,  relations with China, Indo-Europe relations, responses to the global financial crisis, engagement with Pakistan, maritime security and cooperation, Asian balances of power, shared counterterrorism lessons, international institution reform, Indian economic reforms, foreign direct investment flows, international trade negotiations, security dynamics in the Middle East, entrepreneurship and opportunity, the future of democratic governance, labor migration policies, and defense trade.

For more information, please contact Program Coordinator Javid Ahmad.

Past India Forums