Subodh Agarwal
Short vita
Subodh Kumar Agarwal has worked with the South Asia office of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for almost 20 years, handling their economic projects both at the national level and the regional level. Working together with national business associations in all South Asian economies, he worked for the promotion of the private sector participation in the economy. He is keen to contribute towards a prosperous and poverty-free South Asia.
Prior to joining the Foundation in Delhi, he spent long years in Germany, where he studied and then worked in the software development industry.
His last assignment was being a Director/CEO of a German subsidiary (100% export unit) in Delhi engaged in exporting Indian Natural Stones to Germany. This gave him an insight into the commercial aspects and compliance issues governing Indian businesses.
Contributions
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Politics to drive power in South Asia
Regional trade and cooperation in the energy sector would strengthen bi-lateral and multi-lateral ties within the region and complementarities in energy sources need to be explored. Encouraging and strengthening private sector cooperation would strengthen people-to-people ties and complement the current Govt-to-Govt monopoly in the energy sector in South Asia.
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Restart Asian Economies: Ideas and Actions
The adverse economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is being seriously felt across the globe. Economies are on a free fall with a precipitous decline in employment, income, and consumer demand. Regional as well as global trade (import and export) has dropped sharply. In these difficult situations, entrepreneurs will have to find ingenious ways to survive as well as to open windows of opportunities to sustain and grow.
