1. Schedule
Time Topic
3:00 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Mr. Sridhar Pabbisetty, COO, Centre for Public
Policy, IIM Bangalore
3:05 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Reflecting on Biotech and Bangalore:
Dr. Ian Scoones, STEPS Co-director & IDS
Professorial Fellow
3:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m. Evolution of Indian Biotech Industry:
Dr. Vijay Chandru, President ABLE and CEO,
Strand Life Sciences
3:55 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Q & A
4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tea Break
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Panel Discussion on Biotechnology
Regulatory Bill
Moderator:Dr. Satya Dash, COO, ABLE
Panelists:
1. Mr. Leo Saldanha, Coordinator, Environment
Support Group
2. Dr. Jagadish Mittur, Biotechnology
Consultant
3. Dr. K. K. Narayanan, Vice President,
Metahelix
4. Dr. Dhananjay Patankar, Vice President,
Syngene International
5. Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar, Chairman and
Managing Director Xcyton
6:00 p.m. - 6:25 p.m. Possible Future for India’s Biotech Industry:
Dr. Chirantan Chatterjee, Professor, IIM
Bangalore

2. Introduction
The Center for Public Policy (CPP), Indian Institute of
Management Bangalore (IIMB) and theSocial, Technological
and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS)
Centre, University of Sussex, UK, are coming together with
the Association of Biotechnology-Led Enterprises (ABLE) to
hold a half a day seminar on “Biotech in Bangalore : Past
Experiences Future Trajectories.” This event is sponsored by
the UK - India Education Research Initiative through a grant
to the STEPS Centre and CPP.
The seminar will be held on Thursday, the 16th of February,
2012, at 3 pm, at the Indian Institute of Management,
Bangalore.
The event will provide an opportunity to reflect on the
changing biotech sector in Bangalore over the past decade
and to analyze important policy changes. This seminar will
provide an excellent forum for interaction with leaders of the
biotech industry.
The distinguished speakers include Dr. Vijay Chandru, CEO,
Strand Life Sciences and President, ABLE, Dr. Ian Scoones,
Co-director, STEPS Centre, Mr. Leo Saldanha, Co-ordinator,
Environmental Support Group, Dr. K. K. Narayanan, MD,
Metahelix, Dr. Jagadish Mittur, Dr. Dhananjay Patankar,
Syngene, Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar, XCyton, Dr. Satya Dash,
COO-ABLE, and Prof. Chirantan Chatterjee, IIMB.

3. M V Rajeev Gowda, PhD
Rajeev Gowda is Chairperson, Centre for Public Policy and
Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at the Indian
Institute of Management Bangalore. Professor Gowda´s
research focuses on how people and societies manage risk.
At the theoretical level, he draws on behavioral decision
theory, and at the applied level, his research is in the
domain of risk analysis and management. His edited books
include “Judgments, Decisions, and Public Policy,”
published by Cambridge University Press and “India at
Risk,” forthcoming.
In 2011, Dr. Gowda was appointed by the Government of
India as a Director on the Central Board of the Reserve
Bank of India.

4. Ian Scoones, PhD
Ian Scoones is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at
Sussex and joint convenor of the IDS-hosted Future
Agricultures Consortium. He is an agricultural ecologist by
training whose interdisciplinary research links the natural and
social sciences and focuses on the relationships between
science and technology, local knowledge and livelihoods and
the politics of policy processes in the context of international
agricultural, environment and development issues. A social
and institutional perspective is at the centre of his work,
which explores the linkages between local knowledge’s and
practices and the processes of scientific enquiry,
development policy-making and field-level implementation.
Most recently he has been working on the governance of
agricultural biotechnology in India and animal health science
and policy in Africa, including projects on livestock
marketing and foot-and-mouth disease in southern Africa and
the international responses to avian influenza.

5. Vijay Chandru, PhD
Vijay Chandru is an academic (professor of engineering
and computer science) turned entrepreneur. The vision that
drives him is to create successful, world class, technology
innovation companies out of India. Strand Life Sciences the
company he leads, is an exciting life science informatics
company based in Bangalore, India.
In 2001, he also co-founded PicoPeta Simputers which
commercialized the Simputer. PicoPeta was acquired by
Geodesic in 2006. Chandru is the recipient of several
awards and honours:
Chandru is the elected President (2009-2012) of Association
of Biotech led Enterprises (ABLE), Member,High Panel on
Science & Technology for Development at UNESCO, Adjunct
Professor at International Centre for Theoretical Studies
(TIFR) and Consulting Professor at Stanford University.

6. Leo F.Saldanha
Leo Saldanha is full-time Coordinator of Environment
Support Group. He has gained wide-ranging experience in the
areas of Environmental Law and Policy, Decentralization,
Urban Planning and a variety of Human Rights and
Development related issues, working across many sectors
for over a decade. He is a keen campaigner on critical
environmental and social justice issues and has guided
several campaigns demanding evolution of progressive laws
and effective action. He has creatively supported various
distressed communities to secure justice through public
interest litigations and advocacy efforts. He has spearheaded
several public interest litigations, many of which have
resulted in remarkable judgments. In 2007, he co-authored
the book “Green Tapism” critiquing the Environment Impact
Notification 2006 along with team members at ESG.
He was the Country Coordinator and Faculty of the "Cities in
the 21st Century" and "Health and Community" courses of the
International Honors Programme, USA from 2002-2009. He
has a background in Environmental Science from St.
Joseph's College, Bangalore University and has been invited
as a speaker by organizations and universities across the
world. In August 2010, he was invited as a speaker at the
International Forum on China's Rural Reform in the 12th Five-
Year Plan Period organized by the Chinese Institute for
Reform and Development, a Chinese Government think-tank
for reform in policy decision-making. In recognition of his
contribution to environmental and social justice efforts,
Association for India's Development, USA, has made him a
Saathi.

7. Jagadish Mittur, PhD
Jagadish Mittur has more than 30 years of experience in
academia and industry relevant to life sciences, spreading
across several areas of biotechnology. His experience
encompasses both research and development and over the
last 12 years he has focused on agricultural biotechnology.
After working most recently with Monsanto and Avesthagen,
he is at present a consultant on Biotechnology with
Academia and Industry.

8. Satya Dash, PhD
Satya Dash joined ABLE in July 2010. As the COO, he
leads ABLE’s advocacy efforts to represent the interests of
the Indian biotechnology industry to the Indian government,
investors and academia. He is responsible for overall long-
term road mapping and strategy formulation for ABLE.
Previously he was at University of Cambridge (at Institute
for Manufacturing and Judge Business School).

9. Chirantan Chatterjee, PhD
Chirantan Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in
Corporate Strategy and Policy at the Indian Institute of
Management, Bangalore. He works on issues of intellectual
property, innovation and entrepreneurship in global
healthcare markets. His research is funded by a variety of
international institutions such as the National Bureau of
Economic Research, The Sloan Foundation, the National
Science Foundation in the United States and the World
Bank. He has published in various international outlets and
also contributed a book chapter around Asian
Pharmaceuticals from the Brookings Press. Before his
doctoral education, he worked as a business journalist with
the Economic Times.

10. B.V. Ravi Kumar, MBBS, PhD
Ravi Kumar is the founder of XCyton and serves as its
Chairman and Managing Director. He has been instrumental
in developing and successfully launching all of XCyton’s
products. He was earlier with Astra Research Centre and at
Christian Medical College, Vellore.

11. Dhananjay Patankar, PhD
Dhananjay Patankar is Vice President – Biologics,
Syngene International Limited, where he heads a premier
contract services organization involved in discovery,
development and manufacturing for the global bio/
pharmaceutical industry in the area of recombinant proteins
and monoclonal antibodies.
He specializes in the field of Biosimilars – development,
regulation, market scenario and has technical expertise in
biopharmaceutical CMC development and GMP-compliant
and cost-efficient manufacturing operations to global
standards. He has previously been a senior Scientist at the
Wockhardt Research Centre.

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23. CPP
The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) is a leading policy think tank engaged in research,
teaching, training and capacity building. The Centre was established in 2000 through
a partnership between the Department of Personnel Training (DoPT), Government of
India, Government of Karnataka, the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) and IIM Bangalore. Since its inception the CPP has worked on improving
governance and influencing public policy in India.
The Centre functions with autonomy and independence, and aspires to lead policy
thinking and praxis in India, promoting equitable, inclusive and sustainable solutions
to emergent problems.
The CPP’s work in public policy is continuously being strengthened through strong
collaborative networks and partnerships with other policy think tanks, policy
professionals and practitioners around the world. It has been designated as a Centre
of Excellence by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India.
ABLE
Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises - ABLE is a not-for-profit, pan-India
forum that represents the Indian Biotechnology Sector. It was launched in April 2003,
after industry leaders felt a need to form an exclusive forum to represent the Indian
Biotechnology Sector.
ABLE has members from all across India representing all verticals of the sector like
agribiotech, bio-pharma, industrial biotech, bioinformatics, investment banks and
venture capital firms, leading research and academic institutes and law firms and
equipment suppliers. ABLE thus catalyses a symbiotic interface between the
industry, the government, academic and research institutes and domestic and
international investors.
The UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI)
Started in April 2006 with the aim of enhancing educational links between India and
the UK, over the last five years, UKIERI has played a pivotal role in establishing
stronger educational relationships between the two countries. In recognition of the
substantial achievements and building on the success of this initiative, the
programme has been extended for 5 years from 2011 to 2016. The extension was
announced by the UK Prime Minister Mr. David Cameron and Indian Prime Minister Dr.
Manmohan Singh in July 2010.
STEPS Centre
The STEPS Centre was established to focus on the relationship between
environmental change and society and to bring social science expertise to bear on
global environmental research. It is a joint venture between researchers from the
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Science and Technology Policy
Research (SPRU) programme at the University of Sussex. The STEPS Centre
originally concentrated on major global environmental issues such as climate
change and biodiversity and now increasingly focuses its attention to sustainable
development.