Events

This closed-door roundtable was hosted in collaboration with Climate and Sustainability Initiative at the Mumbai Climate Week 2026. It brought together representatives from banks, development finance institutions, institutional investors, developers, and ratings agencies including Bluedot Capital, India Infrastructure Finance Company, Standard Chartered Bank, BNP Paribas among others. Participants discussed how India’s financial system is funding […]

In collaboration with the Observer Research Foundation, Dasra, ClimateRISE Alliance and ICLEI South Asia, we hosted a roundtable at the Mumbai Climate Week 2026. Here we examined how multi-level governance can translate climate commitments into grounded action, with particular attention to implementation constraints at the urban level. Participants noted that meaningful climate progress will depend […]

We organised a session on Healthy Air Zones in partnership with WRI India at the Mumbai Climate Week, 2026 focused on translating city-level clean air commitments into local action. The discussion drew on lessons from Artha Global’s ongoing three-year collaboration with the Government of Andhra Pradesh to design and pilot Clean Air Zones aimed at […]

This roundtable, held at the AI Impact Summit 2026 in collaboration with data.org, examined how data and AI can strengthen climate planning systems. As part of the discussion, we presented findings from a neighbourhood-level heat stress study we conducted in New Delhi in partnership with data.org, mapping variations in heat exposure, energy demand, and productivity […]

Hosted on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit 2026, this roundtable, organised in collaboration with Apolitical, drew from findings from global survey of more than 8,000 public servants on government readiness for AI. Participants included Ahmed Tamim Hisham Al Kuttab, Chairman of the Department of Government Enablement in Abu Dhabi, Sameer Chauhan, Director of […]

In collaboration with New America, we hosted a panel discussion at the AI Impact Summit 2026 that explored what sovereignty in an AI age meant for middle- and low-income countries. The panel featured Kate Kallot, Founder & CEO of Amini AI, Natalie Black,  Group Director for Infrastructure & Connectivity and Executive Board Member at Ofcom, […]

We conducted an Artha Global Conversation with Saurabh Mukherjea and Nandita Rajhansa on their book, Breakpoint: The Crisis of the Middle Class and the Future of Work. They were in conversation with Karan Shah. The discussion painted a picture of a structural break, most likely accelerated by COVID, that has quietly shattered decades of assumptions […]

CTIER has recently released its fourth flagship publication, “CTIER Handbook: Technology and Innovation in India 2025.” The Handbook examines India’s R&D and innovation ecosystem in depth, focusing on three core areas: India and the Global Economy, Regional Innovation Systems, and Industry in India. It combines comparative data analysis with thematic essays that engage with key policy questions […]

We are excited to share that we recently hosted a discussion in Delhi to launch our report, Mapping Heat Inequality Across Neighbourhoods in Delhi, in partnership with data.org and co-hosted with the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and CSEP. The session featured a presentation by Dr. Neelanjan Sircar and Dr. Radhika Khosla, followed by […]

Artha Global recently hosted a closed-door conversation with Roopa Kudva on her new book, Leadership Beyond the Playbook: Craft Your Own Path. Lead with Impact. Drawing on experiences spanning corporate leadership, startups, and the social sector, the discussion explored what leadership looks like in an increasingly complex and uncertain world — particularly for professionals navigating […]