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GBS Speakers 2025

  • Plenary Stage
  • Parallel Stage

Global Influential Voices in Attendance

Meet the influential voices at The Times Group ETNOW Global Business Summit 2025 who are steering change across industries. Discover their expertise and forward-thinking solutions that are set to redefine the future of global businesses and foster long-term growth and innovation.

Chief Guest

Narendra Modi

Prime Minister of India

Special Guests

Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC

Secretary-General – Commonwealth of Nations

Piyush Goyal

Minister of Commerce and Industry, India

Ashwini Vaishnaw

Electronics and Information Technology, Information and Broadcasting and Railway Minister, India

Mansukh L. Mandaviya

Minister of Labour and Employment & Youth Affairs and Sports, India

Vineet Jain

managing director
The Times Group

Akis Evangelidis

Co-Founder of Nothing

Álvaro S. Pereira

Chief Economist and G20 Finance Deputy – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Anshula Kant

Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer

Arvind Tiku

Founder and Group Chairman, AT Capital Group

Börje Ekholm

CEO and President – Ericsson

Cameron Adams

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer – Canva

Christian Dustmann

Professor of Economics at University College London and Director, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin)

Devansh Jain

Executive Director of the INOXGFL Group

Dilip Shanghvi

Founder Chairman and Managing Director – Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

Dov Moran

Inventor of USB flash drive and Managing Partner, Grove Ventures

Dr. Olta Manjani

Deputy minister of economy, innovation and culture – Republic of Albania

Dr. Diana Anne Vorsatz

Vice-Chair – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Dr. Sama Bilbao y León

Director General – World Nuclear Association

Dr Hal Brands

Political Scientist; Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Dr Michael Spence

President and Provost – University College London

Gina Dirawi

Swedish television presenter, singer-songwriter, author, comedian, radio personality, and actress, Sweden

Harvey Schwartz

CEO and member of the Board of Directors – Carlyle Group

Hon. Sunil Handunneththi

"Minister of Industries and Entrepreneurship Development" – Government of Sri Lanka

Inna Braverman

Co-Founder – Eco Wave Power Ltd.

Kami Viswanathan

President, Middle East, Indian subcontinent, and Africa – FedEx

Katie Sadleir

CEO – Commonwealth Games Federation

Kevin Sneader

President of Asia Pacific Ex-Japan at Goldman Sachs

King Willonius

Comedian and AI Storyteller, digital architect, futurist, and cultural innovator, Hollywood film maker

Konrad Bergström

Entrepreneur, Founder X Shore – The future of smart electric boats, Unicorn Founder Marshall Group / Zound Industries. General Partner Wellstreet VC

Luciano Rossi

President – International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)

Michael Williamson

President – Lockheed Martin International

Naveen Jindal

Chairman, Jindal Steel & Power & Member of Parliament

Neeraj Kumar

Managing Director – Suntory Global Spirits India

Naiyya Saggi

Co-Founder, The Good Glamm Group – Founder, Edition

Omri Morgenshtern

CEO – Agoda

Prashant Ruia

CEO – Essar

Prof Dr Kan Zaw

Union Minister for Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations, Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Raj Subramaniam

President, CEO and Director, FedEx

Santosh Iyer

CEO – Mercedes-Benz India

Sharath Bulusu

Lead Product Management, Google Pay

Simon Stiell

Executive Secretary – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Sheenam Ohrie

Managing Director, Broadridge Financial Solutions

Stefano Fallaha

CEO – Podeo

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Founder and Chief Executive Officer – One97 Communications

Vivek Oberoi

Actor and Entrepreneur

Warren “Woody” Hoburg

Astronaut, NASA

Global Influential Voices in Attendance

Meet the influential voices at The Times Group ETNOW Global Business Summit 2025 who are steering change across industries. Discover their expertise and forward-thinking solutions that are set to redefine the future of global businesses and foster long-term growth and innovation.

Abhishek Malik

Partner, Operations Transformation, Grant Thornton Bharat

Abhinav Sinha

Head Procurement Services and Indirect Materials – Nestlé

Abhay Shukla

Principal Data Scientist – Meesho

Ada Dyndo

President – WICCI

Aditya Sharma

Senior Vice President – Asia Boson Energy SA

Adil Safdar

CEO – N7 Group, Australia

Aleksandra Pietilä

Chief Growth Officer – StepOne Tech

Aditya Ghosh

Co-founder – Akasa Air, India

Aman Gupta

Co-founder & CMO – boAt

Amit Goenka

Chairman & Managing Director – Nisus Finance

Anilkumar SG

Founder & CEO, Samunnati Agri Value Chain Solutions

Anand Bajpai

Executive Director – Strategic Leadership Cohort Indian Army, College of Defence Management, Government of India

Anirudh Sharma

Researcher/Founder (Graviky) – MIT Media Lab

Anil Arora

Director – Ace Insurance Brokers

Ankur Warikoo

Entrepreneur | Teacher | Content Creator | Author

Anton Panayotov

Deputy Chairman, Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum

Anish Mandal

Partner-Deloitte

Anne Raudaskoski

Head of Circular Design & Co-Founder – Ethica

Aparna Taneja

Software Engineer – Google DeepMind

Apoorve Goyal

Managing Director – India – Prosus

Ashutosh Sharma

Head of Growth Investments- India and Asia – Prosus

Barkha Singh

Actress

Bhavya Pallothu

Director – RGS Migration Services, Australia

Bhuwan Chandra Tripathi

Vice Chairman, Essar Exploration & Production and Board Member Essar Green Mobility

Bingumal Thewarathanthri

Chief Executive Officer, Standard Chartered Bank Sri Lanka

Camilla Thoma

Finance & Strategy Specialist TAVIS Capital Switzerland

Cecilia Oldne

Chief India Representative, Sweden-India Business Council, India

Chander Prakash Gurnani

CEO & Co-founder – AionOS India Pvt. Ltd.

Chandra Prasad Dhakal

President & Chairman IME Group Pvt. Ltd.; Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FNCCI), Nepal

Cristiano Pasini

India Representative, UNIDO

Deepak Rai

founder and Managing Director of BOOTES

Deepak Dogra

Director Engineered Green Technologies Ltd, UK

Deepak Aggarwal

Founder and CEO, KAZO Fashion (India)

Dikshu Kukreja

Honorary Consul General for the Republic of Albania and Managing Principal, C P Kukreja Architects

Dimitris Manikis

President for Europe, Middle East, Eurasia and Africa (EMEA), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Dr. Arunabha Ghosh

CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water

Dr Alex Zhavoronkov

Founder and CEO – Insilico Medicine

Dr. Alok Sikka

Country Representative India, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 

Dr. Gunjan Rajput

Deputy Registrar – Academics, Rishihood University

Dr Hal Brands

Political Scientist; Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Dr. Diana Anne Vorsatz

Vice-Chair – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Dr. Meeran Chadha Borwankar

Thought Leader, Author, Speaker, Advocate, IPS (Retd)

Dr. Olta Manjani

Deputy minister of economy, innovation and culture – Republic of Albania

Dr. Pankaj Agarwal

CEO – Panitek Green Ventures

Dr. Rajni Kaushik

Head of Sustainability – Ashoka University

Dr Raj Bhushan Choudhary

Doctor and Politician

Dr. Arvind Kumar

President & Founder, India Water Foundation 

Dr. Rajaneesh Dasgupta

Trustee & Director General – Association of Infrastructure Industry (India)

Prof. Anil Gupta

CEO & Principal Investigator (PI) – ICARS, GNEC, IIT Roorkee

Prof. (Dr) Dhirendra Singh Parihar

Registrar – Bennett University

Prof. Prajapati Trivedi

The Commonwealth Secretary General’s Special Envoy for SDG Implementation, Commonwealth

Prof. (Dr.) S. Vijayalakshmi

Registrar, ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education – Hyderabad

Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty

Registrar, SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

Dr. Vivek Kumar Gupta

Registrar & CHRO – Sharda University

Francesca Gatti

International Development & Security Specialist Former Security Sector Reform Officer, UN MINUSCA, Southern Africa

Gaurav Gupta

Founder – Gabit, India

Girish Luthra

Chairman – Luthra Group Of Companies

Goda Ramkumar

Vice President of Data Science Swiggy

Harnath Babu

Partner & CIO, KPMG India

H.E. MINN MINN

Hon’ble Deputy Minister – Ministry of Commerce, Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Inna Braverman

Co-Founder – Eco Wave Power Ltd.

Indrajeet Mitra

Founder & Board Member Gateway Group of Companies.

Jitendra Prasada

Politician

Kaustubh Kulkarni

Senior Country Officer and vice chairman , Asia Pacific – JPMorgan

Karlijn Sibbel

Innovation Director – Notpla

Kami Viswanathan

President, Middle East, Indian subcontinent, and Africa – FedEx

Kaamya Karthikeyan

17 year old Mountaineer and Skier

Kalki Subramaniam

Founder and Director, Transgender rights activist & Social Worker Sahodari Foundation

Kamen Velichkov

VP Strategies Analyst Dronamics, UK

Kanwaljit Chawla

Founder & Director Starr Property Group, Australia

Koel Chakrabarty

CTO – GSB, Sterlite Technologies

Luigi Caini

Brazilian skydiving legend and 11-time world record holder

Martin Nils Mikael Hermansson

Global Educator and Creator of ‘Grej of the day’

Manjunatha D.V

Founder & MD – Emmvee Group

Małgorzata Bieniaszewska

Founder and Entrepreneur – MB Pneumatyka

Madhumalti Sharma

Founder & Director Workshop4Me a.s.b.l., Luxembourg

Mangala Wijesinghe

Chairman/CEO – Sri Lanka Export Development Board

Mangal Dev

Head Hitachi Rail India South Asia (Green Energy Mobility Sector) & Director Hitachi India Pvt. Ltd

Mayur Chhabra

Head Supply Chain – JK Cement

Natasha Chopra

Director – Mondelez

Neelakantan Venkataraman

Vice President and Global Head, Cloud and Edge Business, Tata Communications

Neha Nagar

Content Creator, Filmy Finance

Nitin Gupta

CEO and Co-founder of Attero

Nikunj Dang

Founder and CEO – Yagnum

Nitin Prabhakar Shenoy

Senior Vice President, Biocon

Nitin Vyas

Cluster Asia CEO – Beumer Group

Nirraj Manek

Co-Founder and CEO – SBOOCH

Naveen Ahlawat

leads the Power to X vertical at Jindal Steel

Parthaa Bosu

Innovation and Future Strategies Expert – Domain and Functional Advisory Group

Pamela Thomson-Hall

Head of International, WTW

Peter Tschütscher

CEO – KGAL Investment Management

Preeti Bajaj

MD & CEO – Luminous Power Technologies

Pranjali Awasthi

16-Year-Old AI Startup Owner

Pratik Gauri

Founder & CEO, 5ire.org

Priyanka Gill

entrepreneur shaping the future of luxury, content, and commerce

Priyanka Kochhar

CEO – The Habitat Emprise

Prasad Vanga

Founder & CEO – Anthill Ventures

Pulkit Khurana

Co-Founder and CEO – Battery Smart

Puneet Chhatwal

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer – The Indian Hotels Company

Rakesh Sharma

Founder & MD – Quick Smart Wash

Raachuri Narsimha Raju

Director – The Valley Homes Group, Australia

Rahul Taneja

Partner – Lightspeed

Raj Ajmera

Director – Ace Insurance Brokers

Rajneesh Chopra

Managing Director – Amway India

Ricky Singh

Director – Tans Entertainment, Australia

Rashmi Kunteta

Head – Water, Global Delivery Services India, Mott MacDonald

Rishu Sharma

Director, Consulting & Strategy, Digital & Data, Birlasoft

Rutansh Jagtap

CEO, New Dream Network

R.G. Manalac

Senior Vice President, Head of APAC FinTech

Rtn. Manpreet Singh

President International Chamber of Investment and Business

Sanjay Vyas

President, Safety & Logistics and Country Head & Managing Director, India – Parexel

Sanjiv Navangul

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer – Bharat Serums and Vaccines Limited

Sanjeev Fadnavis

CEO Nitor Infotech, an Ascendion company

Sameer Jain

Managing Director, Primus Partners and CEO – Primus Partners solutions

Saurabh Kumar Sahu

Managing Director & Lead India Business, Accenture

Sarthak Ahuja

Investment Banker – Author – Business Educator

Sahiba Bali

Marketeer, Sports Presenter, Content Creator

Sandeep Varaganti

CEO, JioMart – Reliance Retail

Siddharth Bhatia

Co-Founder and CEO – TurboML

Sheenam Ohrie

Managing Director, Broadridge Financial Solutions

Shalini Goyal Bhalla

Managing Director – International Council for Circular Economy

Shahriare Mahmood

Chief Product & Sustainability Officer – Spinnova Group

Shantanu Mukerji

Managing Director – Gulf Capital

Shri Sanjay Banga

Chairman & Managing Director, Cement Corporation of India 

Sriram Krishnan

Chief Business Development Officer, National Stock Exchange of India (NSE)

Spencer Low

Head of Regional Sustainability for APAC, Google 

Sunil Gupta

Co-Founder, Managing Director & CEO – Yotta Data Services

Sukant Mishra

MD & CEO – Octagon International

Suresh Khadakbhavi

CEO – DigiYatra Foundation

Sumita Dawra

Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment Govt of India

Sudeep Jain (IAS)

Additional Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

Subramanyam Yadavalli

CEO – International, Apollo Hospitals

Svilen Rangelov

Co-Founder and CEO – Dronamics

Tapan Bhatt

COO – Ascendas Firstspace

Tarun Jagga

Head Procurement – Escorts Kubota Limited

Tarun Nazare

Co- founder & MD – Neokred Technologies

Venkatesh Sarvasiddhi

MD – Springer Nature

Vinay Rustagi

Director, Premier Energies Limited

Viraj Bahl

Founder and Managing Director – Veeba

Vineet Mittal

Chairman, Avaada Group

Vijay Anand

Head, HSE & Sustainability – Hero Future Energies

Yati Phanindra Kumar Korlaganti

CEO & Director RGS Migration Services

Yashraj Mukhate

Music Composer & Content Creator

Zainon Mohamad Kassim

Senior Community Leader – Western Australia

Praveen Reddy Desham

Director – The Valley Homes Group Australia