Chair: Shekhar Sinha, Former Commander-in-Chief, Western Naval Command, Indian Navy
Speakers:
17:30 – 17:45 Hrs: Edward Ahlgren, OBE, Royal Navy, UK
17:45 – 18:00 Hrs: Abdulla Shamaal, Chief of Defence Force, Maldives
18:00 – 18:15 Hrs: Mahesh Singh, Flag Officer Karwar/ Karnataka, Indian Navy
Chair: Shekhar Sinha, Former Commander-in-Chief, Western Naval Command, Indian Navy
Speakers:
16:30 – 16:45 Hrs: Ratsimandao Tahirimiakadaza, Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madagascar
16:45 – 17:00 Hrs: Michael Kiboino, Director, Oceans and Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kenya
17:00 – 17:15 Hrs: Abdallah Mirghane, Director of the Foreign Minister’s Cabinet, Comoros
Chair: Shakti Sinha, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, India
Speakers:
15:00 – 15:15 Hrs: Pornpimol Kanchanalak, Adviser to Foreign Minister, Kingdom of Thailand
15:15 – 15:30 Hrs: M Shahidul Islam, Secretary General, BIMSTEC Secretariat, Bangladesh
15:30 – 15:45 Hrs: Richard Maude, Deputy Secretary, Indo-Pacific Group, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia
15:45 – 16:00 Hrs: Nguyen Van Thao, Assistant to Deputy Prime Minister, Director General of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vietnam
16:00 – 16:30: High Tea
Chair: Shakti Sinha, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, India
Speakers:
14:00 – 14:15 Hrs: Harry Harris, US Ambassador to South Korea and Former Commander, US Pacific Command, USA
14:15 – 14:30 Hrs: Yuri Materiy, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and The Maldives Republic, Russia
14:30 – 14:45 Hrs: Wei Hongtian, Ambassador of Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China
Chair: Ram Madhav, National General Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party; Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Speakers:
11:45 – 12:00 Hrs: Kyaw Myo, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Myanmar
12:00 – 12:15 Hrs: Toshiko Abe, State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan
12:15 – 12:30 Hrs: Ronny Prasetyo Yuliantoro, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Special Advisor to the Foreign Minister on Inter-Institutional Relations, Indonesia
13:00 -14:00 Hrs – Lunch
Chair: Ram Madhav, National General Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party; Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Speakers:
10:30 – 10:45 Hrs: Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi, Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oman
10:45 – 11:00 Hrs: Shahriar Alam, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh
11:00 – 11:15 Hrs: Chhiv Yiseang, Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation, Kingdom of Cambodia
MC: Dhruv Katoch, Director, India Foundation
Chair: M J Akbar, Member of Parliament, India
Speaker:
Mohamed Nasheed, Speaker, Peoples’ Majlis, Maldives
MC: Shaurya Doval, Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Speakers:
1. Macsuzy Mondon, Designated Minister, Seychelles
2. Nandcoomar Bodha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mauritius
3. Tandi Dorji, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Royal Government of Bhutan
4. Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nepal
5. Ahmad Ali Al Sayegh, Minister for Economic Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UAE
6. Joaquim Jose Gusmao dos Reis Martines, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Timor Leste
20:30 Hrs onwards – Dinner to be hosted by President of Maldives
MC: Alok Bansal, Director, India Foundation
Speakers:
1. S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister, India
2. Abdulla Shahid, Foreign Minister, Maldives
MC: Shekhar Sinha, Former C-in-C, Westen Naval Command, Indian Navy
Speakers:
1. H.E. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, President, Maldives
2. H.E. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister, Sri Lanka
3. S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister, India
4. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Singapore
5. Abdulla Shahid, Foreign Minister, Maldives