Conferences/Lectures (Selected)

R&D in Indian Pharmaceutical Industry, Refresher Course and Training Programme on Healthcare Laws and Patient Rights, organised by School of Legal Studies, CUSAT, Kerala, 28 February-3 March 2020.

Innovation in Draft Industrial Policy 2019: A Reflection on the Strategies and Action Points, workshop on Framing of India’s Industrial Policy: A domestic industry perspective, organised at ISID, 20 January 2020.

Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Innovations in Drugs and Medical Devices Industries, seminar on Catching Up in the Digital Economy: Identifying India’s Policy Gaps and Challenges, organised by SNU and ISID, 30-31 January 2020.

Innovation, Patents and Competition: An Economic Perspective, workshop on Intellectual Property Rights and Competition: A Social Perspective, organised by the Interuniversity Centre for IPR Studies, CUSAT, Kerala, 18 January 2019.

Globalisation of R&D and challenges for Competence Building: The case of India, workshop Socio-economic Impact of New Technologies: Policy Implications for India organised by NISTADS, New Delhi, 10 October 2018.

Patents, Innovation and Economic Growth and Indian Pharma Industry Post-TRIPS, Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, CUSAT, Kerala, 4 July 2017.

Indian Pharmaceuticals Industry, Capacity Building Programme on Industrialisation, Corporate Sector and Development organised by ISID, New Delhi, 22 May – 7 June 2017.

Post-TRIPS Experience of the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry in India,  conference on Innovation, Economic Development and IP in India and China, organised by IP School, Renmin University of China, Beijing; Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA), School of Law, Singapore Management University; O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi, and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany, in Beijing, China, 18-19 December 2017.

Measures to Reduce Import Dependence on Bulk Drugs, First World Conference on Access to Medical Products and International Laws for Trade and Health  in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, organised by World Health Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and the Indian Society of International Law, in New Delhi, 21-23 November 2017.

Impact of FDI on Innovation: A Comparison of Experiences of India and China, 18^th Global Development Conference – Science, Technology and Innovation for Development, organised by GDN, ISID, UNIDO and Campbell Collaboration, in New Delhi, 22-23 March 2018.

Patent System and Indian Pharmaceutical Industry, conference on Innovation, Economic Development and IP in India and China organised by Singapore University of Management, O.P. Jindal Global University, Renmin University of China, in New Delhi, 27-28 September 2016.

Impact of FDI on National Innovation System: A Review of Experience of India and China, international conference on Globalization and India’s Innovation System: A Creative Destruction? organised by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, 4-7 February 2017.

Acquisition of Manufacturing Capability in Indian Pharma Industry: Role of the State, workshop on Emerging Challenges of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in India, organised by ISID and Central University of Gujarat, Gujarat, 27-28 March 2017.

TPP, TRIPS and Access to Medicines during the International Conference on WTO and SDGs: Issues before Nairobi Ministerial, organised by RIS, CWTOS, CII, FICCI and MGG, in New Delhi, 23-24 November 2015.

Multinational Enterprises and Access to Medicines, International Conference on Evolving Regime in Intellectual Property Rights organised by JNU, ISID, PHFI, TWN, South Centre, HEAI and MNEmerge, in New Delhi, 2-4 November 2015.

Intellectual Property Rights in Pharmaceuticals, Faculty of Technology Management, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 12 August 2013.

Doha Round and Public Health: India’s compulsions for exercising TRIPS flexibilities and roadblocks ahead, international seminar on India and WTO: Towards Effective Multilateral Governance of International Public Goods, organised by the Dept. of International Relations, Central University of Kerala, 6-8 October 2013.

Global Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing: Where are we today?, Capacity Building Programme on International Economic Issues and Development Policy under ITEC/SCAAP of Ministry of External Affairs organised by RIS, New Delhi, 13 February 13 – 9 March 2012.

Scope for Technology Co-operation among Developing Countries, Capacity Building Programme on International Economic Issues and Development Policy (IEIDP) under the ITEC / SCAAP Programme of the Ministry of External Affairs organised by RIS, New Delhi, 15 February 15 -12 March 2010.

Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: In Retrospect and Prospect, CENTAD-IIFT School on Trade and Public Health, New Delhi, 5-9 October 2009.

Political Economy of India’s Engagement with WTO: An Analysis in the Context of Amendment of India’s Patents Act, international conference on World Trade, World Poverty at Indiana Purdue University, Fort Wayne, USA, 18-19 September 2009.