Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Ebell Club of Santa Ana
718 Mortimer St, Santa Ana, CA 92701
6pm Reception; 6:30pm Program
With Panelists:
Matt Kawecki, Quad Team Lead, US State Dept
Dr. Rafiq Dossani, Senior Economist RAND Corp
Gunjan Bagla CEO, India Practice Amritt, Inc
Parking is Complimentary
Speaker Bios
Rafiq Dossani is a senior economist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He works on Asian development and security, trade, and technology issues. Recent projects include the equities of middle powers in the event of a cross-Strait conflict, China’s AI exports, China’s grand strategy, the Belt and Road Initiative, and Track II diplomacy between the United States and China.
Previously, Dossani was director of Stanford University’s Center for South Asia and a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Institute for International Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University; an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and a B.A. in economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.
Gunjan Bagla is founder and CEO of Amritt, Inc, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in guiding American companies and their executives to success in their dealings with India. While its clients are from all over North American, organizations with a strong So Cal presence who have benefitted from Amritt’s expertise include Axonics Inc, Biocom California, Boeing, Caltech, Hewlett Packard, Korn Ferry, Northrop Grumman, Parker Aerospace, Sydnexis, Teledyne, Walt Disney Co, Wonderful Co and many others.
He is the author of the acclaimed title “Doing Business in 21st Century India: How to Profit Today from tomorrow’s most exciting Market” and was the technical editor on John Wiley’s Doing Business in India for Dummies (2007). Gunjan writes about business with India for the Harvard Business Review. He has been quoted for his India expertise in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times and has appeared on National Public Radio, BBC Radio and TV, Fox Business Cable and Bloomberg TV to talk about India. This will be Gunjan’s third appearance on stage with the Orange County World Affairs Council.
He created the executive seminar “Business with India” for Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California and has also taught executives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Phoenix, Arizona. He is a mechanical engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology and currently past President of the IIT Alumni Group. Gunjan completed his MBA with honors from Southern Illinois University.
Most recently Gunjan was featured in the Los Angeles Daily News and on LAIst Radio and website for his work to convince the Indian Government to open a new Consulate in Los Angeles.
