GKII Meets with Karnataka Delegation

The Gupta-Klinsky India Institute is honored to have met with a delegation from the Government of Karnataka on Oct. 7, 2024, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Dean Alexander Triantis. At discussion were higher education opportunities in India, workforce training, affordable education, and the public health training gap. The delegation also provided an overview of Karnataka’s new KHIR (Knowledge, Health, Innovation and Research) city near Bengaluru and the huge potential it provides.

Thank you to GKII Executive Director Kunal Pal for joining these meetings with the esteemed Mr. M. B. Patil, Hon’ble Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industries and Infrastructure Development, Dr. S. Selvakumar, IAS Principal Secretary, Dept. of Commerce and Industries, Ms. Gunjan Krishna, IAS Commissioner, Industrial Development. Dr. Mahesh M, IAS Chief Executive Officer & Executive Member, KIADB, Mr. H. N. Ravindra Deputy Director, and Ms. Pravallika Kollipara Consultant, BCG.

Additional thanks to Johns Hopkins University faculty who were able to attend: Hedy Alavi, Associate Dean for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Jill Green, Senior Associate Dean for Student Experience and Strategic Initiatives, Ritu Agarwal, Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and Health and co-director of the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, Lasse Mertins, Vice Dean for Education at the Carey Business School, Goker Aydin, Vice Dean for Faculty and Research at the Carey Business School, Rick Smith, Professor of Practice for Management and Organization, and Director of the Human Capital Development Lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Nagpurnanand Prabhala, Francis J. Carey Endowed Professor of Business and Professor of Finance at the Carey Business School, Svea Closser Associate Professor of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Professor of Biostatistics and Oncology, and Uttara Bharath Kumar, Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs.