Raisina Dialogue

Multilateral conference in New Delhi, India

Raisina Dialogue

Status| Active
Genre| Geopolitics
Frequency| Annually
Location(s)| New Delhi
Country| India
Years active| 2016-present
Inaugurated| March 1, 2016 (2016-03-01)
Founder| Observer Research Foundation
Participants| Various
Area| Global
Patrons| Ministry of External Affairs, India
Website| Official website

The Raisina Dialogue is a multilateral conference held annually in New Delhi, India. Since its inception in 2016, the conference has emerged as India's flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics. The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation, an independent think tank, in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs of India.

The conference is structured as a multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral discussion, involving a variety of global policymakers including heads of states, cabinet ministers and local government officials. In addition, the Dialogue also welcomes major private sector executives, as well as members of the media and academia. It is designed on the lines of Singapore's Shangri-La Dialogue.[1]

The name "Raisina Dialogue" comes from Raisina Hill, an elevation in New Delhi, seat of the Government of India, as well as the Presidential Palace of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan.[2]

## Raisina Dialogue 2024

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The ninth edition of Raisina Dialogue was held in New Delhi from 21 February to 23 February 2024. The theme for 2024 was “Chaturanga: Conflict, Contest, Cooperate, Create”.[3] Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the chief guest.[4]

## Raisina Dialogue 2023

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The eighth edition of Raisina held from 2 March to 4 March 2023, in person. It focused on four pillars - Neo Insurgence, Amoral Mosiac, Chaotic Codes, Pernicious Passports, and Grey Rhinos.[5][6] Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni was the chief guest among several other speakers and guests.[6][7]

## Raisina Dialogue 2022

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The seventh edition of The Raisina Dialogue was held in-person in New Delhi from 25 April to 27 April 2022.[8] The theme for 2022 is "Terra Nova: Impassioned, Impatient, and Imperilled".[8]

European Commission's president Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister Modi are the chief guests.[9] Other key speakers[10] include:

List of Speakers in 2022

| Name | Designation | Country

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Carl Bildt | Former Prime Minister, Sweden; Co-chair, European Council on Foreign Relations  |  Sweden
Stephen Harper | Former Prime Minister of Canada |  Canada
Abdulla Shahid | President of United Nations General Assembly |  United Nations
Admiral R. Hari Kumar | Chief of Indian Navy |  India
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin | Chief of the Defence Staff, United Kingdom  |  United Kingdom
Aminath Shauna | Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Maldives  |  Maldives
Amitabh Kant | CEO, NITI Aayog, India  |  India
Andrew Shearer  | Director General, Office of National Intelligence, Australia  |  Australia
Anniken Huitfeldt | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway |  Norway
Anthony Abbott  | Former Prime Minister, Australia |  Australia
Ararat Mirzoyan | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia |  Armenia
Anže logar | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia |  Slovenia
Biswo Nath Poudel  | Vice Chairperson, National Planning Commission, Nepal  |  Nepal
Cecile Fruman  | Director, Regional Integration and Engagement, South Asia, World Bank  | World Bank
Gabrielius Landsbergis | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania |  Lithuania
General Angus Campbell | Chief of the Defence Force, Australia |  Australia
General Koji Yamazaki | Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, Japan Self-Defense Forces |  Japan
General Manoj M Naravane | Chief of the Army Staff, India |  India
Geoffrey Onyeama | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria |  Nigeria
Hugh Hilton Todd | Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Guyana |  Guyana
João Gomes Cravinho | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Portugal |  Portugal
Lisa Singh | Director and CEO, Australia India Institute, Australia  |  Australia
Lt. Gen. (Dr) Rajesh Pant (Retd)  | National Cyber Security Coordinator, Prime Minister's Office, India |  India
Mathias Cormann | Secretary-General, OECD | OECD
Mohamed Nasheed | Speaker of the Parliament; Former President, Maldives |  Maldives
Narek Mkrtchyan  | Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Armenia  |  Armenia
Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy | Minister of State for International Cooperation, United Arab Emirates  |  UAE
Richard J. Randriamandrato  | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madagascar |  Madagascar
S. Jaishankar | Minister of External Affairs, India |  India
Tadashi Maeda | Governor, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Japan  |  Japan
Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. | Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Philippines |  Philippines
Vinay Mohan Kwatra | Foreign Secretary (Designate), India |  India
Wopke Hoekstra | Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands  |  Netherlands
Zbigniew Rau | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland |  Poland

## Raisina Dialogue 2021

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The sixth edition of The Raisina Dialogue was held in virtual mode from 13 to 16 April 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme for 2021 was "ViralWorld: Outbreaks, Outliers and Out of Control".[11][12] Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen, Rwandan president Paul Kagame were the chief-guests along with prime minister Modi at the inaugural session.[12]

## Raisina Dialogue 2020

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PM Modi with global leaders at inaugural session of Raisina Dialogue 2020 (14 January 2020)

The fifth edition of The Raisina Dialogue was held in New Delhi, India from 14 to 16 January. The theme for the 2020 Conference was "Navigating the Alpha Centurys".[13] Australian Foreign minister Marise Payne gave the keynote address.[14]

## Raisina Dialogue 2019

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The fourth edition of The Raisina Dialogue was held at the Taj Diplomatic Enclave in New Delhi, India from 8–10 January 2019.

The theme for the conference was "New Geometrics | Fluid Partnerships | Uncertain Outcomes". The theme represents a logical progression from the previous edition, which focused on Managing Disruptions and Transitions. In her remarks, then External Affairs Minister Smt. Sushma Swaraj writes, "As the world seeks solutions to the constantly changing political, economic, and strategic landscape, “A World Reorder” is indeed an appropriate and timely theme. I hope the discussions will foster frank deliberations on the geopolitical reordering that is underway and point us towards creative and innovative solutions".

This conference was organised in partnership with Ministry of External Affairs.[15]

Ministerial Level Participation in Raisina 2019[16]

| Name  | Designation  | Country

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Narendra Modi | Prime Minister of India |  India
Carl Bildt | Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden  |  Sweden
Josep Borrell | Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation |  Spain
Mohammad Javad Zarif | Minister of Foreign Affairs  |  Iran
Reginah Mhaule | Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation  |  South Africa
V.K. Singh  | Minister of State for External Affairs  |  India
Marise Payne | Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs  |  Australia
Omar Al Olama | Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence  |  UAE
Pradeep Kumar Gyawali | Minister of Foreign Affairs  |  Nepal
Sergei Ryabkov | Deputy Foreign Minister  |  Russia
Smriti Irani | Minister of Textiles  |  India
Sushma Swaraj | Minister of External Affairs  |  India

## Raisina Dialogue 2018

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The third edition of The Raisina Dialogue was held at the Taj Diplomatic Enclave in New Delhi, India from 16 to 18 January 2018.

The theme for the 2018 Conference is "Managing Disruptive Transitions: Ideas, Institutions and Idioms". This theme is designed to explore the shifting dynamics within the global order; where old relationships need new directions, emerging partnerships face unprecedented constraints and the notions of power and sovereignty are challenged. The Dialogue will foster discussion on the role of institutions, the possibility of collective action and successful responses to these modern developments.[17]

Raisina Dialogue 2018 was attended by following scholars and officials:[18]

Participants and Speakers in 2018

| Name | Designation | Country

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Narendra Modi | Prime Minister of India |  India
Sushma Swaraj | Foreign Minister of India |  India
S Jaishankar | Foreign Secretary (India) |  India
Sunjoy Joshi | Chairman, Observer Research Foundation |  India
Konstantin Kosachev | Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council |  Russia
Hans Dahlgren | State Secretary for International and EU Affairs to Prime Minister |  Sweden
David Malone | Rector, United Nations University |  Canada
Jayant Sinha | Ministry of Civil Aviation (India) |  India
Gabriela Ramos | OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20 |  Mexico
Joseph Lubin | Founder, ConsenSys |  Canada United States
Stavros N. Yiannouka | CEO, World Innovation Summit for Education |  Qatar
Peter Swire | Professor of Law and Ethics, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology |  United States
Alexander Gabuev | Senior Fellow and the Chair of the Russia in the Asia- Pacific Program, Carnegie Moscow Center |  Russia
Thomas Gomart | Director, IFRI |  France
Heather Hurlburt | Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America |  United States
Houda Cherif | President, Connecting Group Tunisia |  Tunisia
Lucy Shule | Lecturer and Director of Studies, National Defence College |  Tanzania
General Bipin Rawat | Chief of Army Staff, India |  India
General Chris Deverell | Joint Forces Commander, U.K. |  United Kingdom
Husain Haqqani | Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia, Hudson Institute |  United States
Vyacheslav Nikonov | Member of the State Duma, Russia |  Russia
M.J. Akbar | Minister of State External Affairs, India |  India
Zalmay Khalilzad | Former Ambassador of United States to the United Nations |  United States
Smriti Irani | Minister for Textiles and Information and Broadcasting, India |  India
Wendy Ruth Sherman | Senior Counselor, Albright Stonebridge Group |  United States
Pascale Fung | Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |  Hong Kong
Suresh Prabhu | Minister of Commerce and Industry, India |  India
Kenneth Juster | U.S. Ambassador to India |  United States
Rajiv Lall | CEO, IDFC Bank |  India
Nisha Biswal | President, US-India Business Council |  United States
Saad Mohseni | Chairman and CEO, Moby Group |  Afghanistan Australia
Rory Medcalf | Head, National Security College, Australian National University |  Australia
Christopher Pyne | Minister for Defence Industry, Australia |  Australia
Maliki Osman | Senior Minister of State for Defence and Foreign Affairs, Singapore |  Singapore
Ram Madhav | National General Secretary, BJP and Director, India Foundation |  India
Nadia Schadlow | Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Strategy, U.S. National Security Council |  United States
Raja Mohan | Director, Carnegie India |  India
Stephen Harper | Former Prime Minister, Canada |  Canada
James Carafano | Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation |  United States
Ina Lepel | Director-General on Asia and the Pacific, Federal Foreign Office, Germany |  Germany
Shashi Tharoor | Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, India |  India
Marek Magierowski | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland |  Poland
Charles Powell | Director, Elcano Royal Institute |  United Kingdom Spain
Carl Bildt | Former Prime Minister, Sweden |  Sweden
Geoffrey Van Orden | Member of the European Parliament for the East of England |  England
Hardeep Singh Puri | Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs, India |  India
Daniel Andrews | Premier of Victoria, Australia |  Australia
Kentaro Sonoura | Advisor to the Prime Minister (National Security), Japan |  Japan
Harsh Pant | Distinguished Fellow and Head, Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation |  India
Sanjeev Sanyal | Principal Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, India |  India
Cleo Paskal | Associate Fellow in the Energy, Environment and Resources Department, Chatham House |  Canada
Tanvi Madan | Director, India Project, Brookings Institution |  India  United States
Asle Toje | Director of Research, Nobel Peace Prize Research and Information, The Norwegian Nobel Institute |  Norway
Vijay Keshav Gokhale | Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, India |  India
István Mikola | Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation, Hungary |  Hungary
Michael Fullilove | Executive Director, Lowy Institute |  Australia
General V. K. Singh | Minister of State for External Affairs, India |  India
Hamid Karzai | Former President, Afghanistan |  Afghanistan
Yalda Hakim | Host, BBC World News |  Australia
Ryamizard Ryacudu | Minister of Defence, Indonesia |  Indonesia
Vasantha Senanayake | State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka |  Sri Lanka
Shankar Das Bairagi | Foreign Secretary, Nepal |  Nepal
Preeti Saran | Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, India |  India
Baijayant Panda | Member of Parliament, India |  India
Amitabh Kant | CEO, NITI Aayog |  India
Vijay Shekhar Sharma | Founder and Head, Paytm |  India
Admiral Sunil Lanba | Chief of Naval Staff, India |  India
Admiral Harry Harris | Commander, U.S. Pacific Command |  United States
Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano | Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, Japan |  Japan
Vice Admiral Tim Barret | Chief of Navy, Australia |  Australia
Yul Sohn | Director, East Asia Institute |  South Korea
Neelam Deo | Director, Gateway House |  India
Rohinton P. Medhora | President, Centre for International Governance Innovation |  Canada
Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh |  Bangladesh
Maurice Gourdault-Montagne | Career diplomat |  France
General (Retd.) David H. Petraeus | U.S. Army, Retired |  United States
Swapan Dasgupta | Member of Parliament, India |  India
Tim Hitchens | Chief Executive, Commonwealth Summit Unit |  United Kingdom
Premdut Koonjoo | Minister of Ocean Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries and Shipping, Republic of Mauritius |  Mauritius

## Raisina Dialogue 2017

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PM Modi during Raisina 2017

In 2017, The Dialogue was held from 17 to 19 January. Held on a larger scale, the conference welcomed over 120 speakers from 65 countries and upwards of 800 participants. Attendees discussed the theme, "The New Normal: Multilateralism with Multipolarity".

The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the 2017 edition of the Raisina Dialogue. Other eminent speakers included the former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai; the former Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper; Nepal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prakash Sharan Mahat; U.K.’s Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, Boris Johnson; the Diplomatic Adviser to the President of France, Jacques Audibert; Commander of U.S. Naval Forces, Europe and Africa, Admiral Michelle Howard; Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris, Jr.; and the Indian Chief of the Army Staff, General Bipin Rawat. The conference report can be found online.[19]

## Raisina Dialogue 2016

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Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj during Raisina 2016

The first Raisina Dialogue was held from 1–3 March 2016. Over 100 speakers from over 35 countries attended to speak on the theme, "Asia: Regional and Global Connectivity". The focus of the 2016 conference was on Asia’s physical, economic, human and digital connectivity. Panels and discussions explored opportunities and challenges for the region to manage its common spaces, as well as the global partnerships needed to develop common pathways in this century.[citation needed]Following the inaugural conference, the news media lauded the event as "packing a global punch in Delhi".[20]

## Publications

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Each year, The Raisina Dialogue publishes a series of publications in order to ensure a continual dialogue of conference themes and highlights. Among these publications are The Raisina Files, which contain a set of commentaries authored by high-profile speakers and delegates.

Additionally, ORF publishes a Defence Primer and several policy reports to supplement the conversations held at each conference.

## See also

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* Gateway of India Dialogue
* Halifax International Security Forum
* Munich Security Conference
* Yalta European Strategy

## References

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1. ^ What is Raisina Dialogue
2. ^ "Raisina dialogue website".
3. ^ "Raisina Dialogue 2024 kicks off". The Economic Times. 21 February 2024.
4. ^ "Raisina Dialogue begins today: Everything you need to know about the conference". The Indian Express. 21 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
5. ^ "Raisina Dialogue Highlights India's Global Balancing Act". thediplomat.com. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
6. ^ a b "Raisina Dialogue 2023: Every nation can be a lighthouse, says keynote speaker and Italy PM Giorgia Meloni". CNBCTV18. 2 March 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
7. ^ Mattoo, Shashank (3 March 2023). "Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov strikes defiant note on Ukraine at Raisina Dialogue". mint. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
8. ^ a b "Raisina Dialogue - 2022". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
9. ^ "PM Modi to inaugurate 7th edition of Raisina Dialogue". newsonair.gov.in. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
10. ^ "Speaker". ORF. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
11. ^ "Raisina Dialogue 2021 | ORF". www.orfonline.org. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
12. ^ a b "Agenda" (PDF). ORFonline.
13. ^ Chaudhury, Dipanjan Roy. "Raisina Dialogue 2020 to host ministers from across globe". The Economic Times. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
14. ^ "What the Raisina Dialogue tells about India's view of the world". www.lowyinstitute.org. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
15. ^ "4th Raisina Dialogue (January, 8-10 2019)". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
16. ^ "ORF". www.orfonline.org. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
17. ^ "Raisina 2018".
18. ^ http://cf.orfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Raisina-2018-Programme1812.pdf [bare URL PDF]
19. ^ "Raisina 2017" (PDF).
20. ^ "Ndtv".

## External links

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* Official website