Dr. S. Jaishankar (External Affairs Minister, Government of India), Ambassador Ashok Kantha (Institute of Chinese Studies), Prof. Sreemati Chkrabarti (Institute of Chinese Studies), Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi (IIT Madras), Dr. Joe Thomas Karackattu (IIT MAdras), Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Professor Kamal Sheel (IIT-BHU, Varanasi), Professor William Callahan (London School of Economics and Political Science), Professor Avijit Bannerjee (Visva Bharati University), Dr. Usha Chandran (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Dr. Chirashree Dasgupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Ms Shagufta Yasmin (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Ms Saloni Sharma (BITS-Pialani), Dr. Justin Joseph (Hindustan University), Dr. Sriram Natrajan (Institute of Chinese Studies), Dr. Manish Kumar (IIT Gandhinagar), Mr Santosh Pai (Link Legal delhi), Mr. Sanjay Chadha (Ministry of Commerce and Industry Government of India), Amb. Mohan Kumar (O.P. Jindal Global University), Dr. Ajit Ranade (Aditya Birla Group), Prof. Amit Batra (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Prof. Ramu Manivannan (University of Madras), Ms. Prateeksha Tiwari (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Ms. Shruti Jargad (Peking University), Mr. Snehal Ajit Ulman (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Dr. Bhim Subba (University of Hyderabad), Prof. W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar (Madras Christian College), Ms. Jayshree Borah, (Shanghai International Studies University), Ms. Shubhda Gurung (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Mr. Shivi Sanyam, Mr. Rahul Suryavanshi, Mr. Yash Johri (Institute of Chinese Studies), Dr. Saheli Bose (Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, University of Calcutta), Dr. Avinash Godbole (Jindal Global University), Dr. Partha Mukhopadhyay (Centre for Policy Research), Prof. Mark W. Frazier (The New School of Social Research and India China Institute, New York), Dr. Juan Du (Hong Kong University), Dr. Mary Ann O’Donnell (Handshake 302, Shenzhen), Dr. Solomon Benjamin (IIT-Madras), Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi), Amb. Shyam Saran, Prof. Varaprasad S. Dolla (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Dr. Rajiv Ranjan (Shanghai University), Prof. Madhavi Thampi (Institute of Chinese Studies), Mr. Naveen Srivastava (Ministry of External Affairs Government of India), Prof. Tansen Sen (NYU Shanghai), Dr. Sonika Gupta (IIT-Madras China Studies Centre), Dr. Dhriti Roy (Sikkim University), Dr. G. Venkat Raman (IIM-Indore Indore), Prof. Rajat Kathuria (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER Delhi), Ms. Shubhi Bhandari (Independent Researcher), Dr. Khanindra Das (Birla Institute of Management Technology), Dr. Radha Raghuramapatruni (GITAM (Deemed to be University Visakhapatnam), Dr. Malini L. Tantri (ISEC Bengaluru), Dr. Nalin Kumar (Presidency University, Bengaluru), Dr. Varadurga Bhat (Christ University, Bengaluru), : Dr. Arindam Banerjee, (Ambedkar University Delhi),

The 13th All India Conference of China Studies (AICCS) will be organised virtually by Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi & Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) China Studies Centre from 28 to 30 Jan 2021. Dr. S. Jaishankar, Minister for External Affairs, will deliver the Keynote Address during the Inaugural Session on 28 Jan.

The conference will feature young & established China scholars from more than 30 institutions across India & abroad. This year’s Conference will focus on the special theme “China at the Crossroads: New Directions in Politics, Environment and Economy” in 11 sessions spread over 3 days. The best original paper presented at the AICCS by a young scholar is awarded the Mira Sinha-Bhattacharjea Award – instituted in memory of one of India's finest China scholars.

ICS is one of India's oldest multi-disciplinary research institutions on China & E. Asia. Established in 2011, IIT Madras China Studies Centre hosts China scholars in multiple disciplines