At a recent Economist Intelligence Unit Corporate Network Breakfast Chandran Nair, founder and chief executive of GIFT was asked to share his thoughts on China’s urban-rural divide and to provide some practical ideas on finding solutions to rural issues plaguing China today.

Dr. Thomas Tang, Executive Director of GIFT, moderated a panel discussion on diversity and discrimination at CSR Asia’s Conference held in Hong Kong at the Hotel Nikko on 1-2 November 2007. On the panel were two leading experts, Kay McArdle from Goldman Sachs and Anna Wu, former Legislative Councillor and ex-head of the Equal Opportunities Commission.

GIFT founder and chief executive, Chandran Nair was invited to join a panel of experts to address the topic of mobilising the family office through philanthropy at the annual Asia Pacific Family Office Conference held on October 30-31, 2007.

Chandran Nair delivered the Keynote Address at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia Luncheon in October. This article appeared in the October 2007 issue of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia Newsletter.

GIFT Founder and CEO, Chandran Nair was a participant at the Economist Climate Change Forum held in Singapore on Tuesday, September 25th 2007. The Forum was also held in London and Washington DC.

Chandran Nair appeared at the Diversity & Inclusion in Asia Conference on Tuesday 26 June 2007.

Business leaders have been challenged to “move beyond the rhetoric” at Asia’s largest conference on workplace diversity and inclusion by GIFT founder and chief executive Chandran Nair in his role as chairman of the opening session.

Chandran Nair gave a keynote address at the 2007 World Cities Forum on 18 April.

The future of China and other major emerging markets are hanging on critical investment and development decisions now, Chandran Nair, founder and chief executive of the Global Institute For Tomorrow, told an international conference on world cities.

Chandran Nair spoke at the India Today Conclave on 21 March 2007. Click here to watch Chandran Nair and Dr. Francis Fukuyama on YouTube.

GIFT founder and chief executive Chandran Nair helped set the tone at an international conference tackling some of the toughest issues facing the planet, in a discussion with American author and Johns Hopkins University professor Francis Fukuyama.

Thomas Tang spoke at the Ethical Corporation Conference on 21 March 2007.

One of the keys for businesses to ensure that sponsorship or aid is effective is to build partnerships and develop them within a business model framework, Dr Thomas Tang told a conference on partnerships between business, government and civil society.

India Today Conclave 2007 - Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dr. Francis Fukuyama (Author & Professor, Johns Hopkins University) and Chandran Nair (Founder & CEO, Global Institute For Tomorrow ) World: End of History or Brave New Future?