The India Business Forum at the London Business School  invites you to attend our conference " Business opportunities in rural India " where leading academics, heads of multinational businesses, successful entrepreneurs, policy experts and ministers in government will debate key issues in setting up,running and scaling up sustainable businesses in Rural India.

At the conference you will:

• Explore investment opportunities and fundraising options with venture capitalists, investment professionals, and entrepreneurs.
• Size the market for microfinance and ancillary financial products with CEO’s of banks and microfinance companies.
• Understand supply chain issues in connecting rural production centres and urban markets with CEO’s of consumer goods companies, the head of a village “panchayat” and policy experts.

Proceeds of all ticket sales go to "Pratham" (www.pratham.org) a charity supporting childrens education in India.

Some of the speakers at the conference are:

Nachiket Mor, President, ICICI Foundation
Ajay Piramal, Chairman Nicholas Piramal
JJ Irani, Director, Tata Sons
Dr Viral Acharya, Professor of Finance, London Business School
Rana Kapoor, CEO, Yes Bank
Priya Basu, The World Bank
Sanjay Kapoor, President, Bharti Airtel, Mobility
Vijay Mahajan, CEO, BASIX
Naveen Jindal, MD Jindal Steel,Member of Parliament  
Madhu Yashki, Member of Parliament
Dr. Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics, MIT
Dr Gita Piramal, Managing editor, The Smart manager