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Sumeet ANAND

Founder & CEO, IndSight Growth Partners President, Indo-French Chamber of Commerce & Industry/ CCI France-Inde

Sumeet Anand is the Founder of IndSight Growth Partners, a leading strategy-consulting firm advising global & select Indian clients on corporate strategy and strategic partnerships since 2012.

Sumeet has 28 years of top management consulting and general management experience. Sumeet assists Fortune 500 & CAC 40 – SBF 240 corporations, family owned Indian groups, private equity funds, fast growing ETIs & startups and global institutions in building successful businesses in India. He advises top leadership at global headquarters level as well as country level in India. Previously, he had 15 years of CXO experience with Pernod Ricard & Savencia, twice as CEO & Country Manager for India & South Asia.

Sumeet is a leading expert on consumer goods, services and industrial sectors. He is recognised for his expertise on Indo-European business relations, especially Indo-French relations. Sumeet is engaged in select professional and pro bono initiatives focused on developing linkages between India and France.

Sumeet is the President of the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce & Industry/ CCI France- Inde and a member of the Board of Directors of CCI France International. He is a Co-founder of the France India Foundation. He is a member of the Advisory Board of HEC Paris’s Society & Organisation Institute. He is the first Indian to be elected to the global Governing Committee of HEC Paris Alumni association. Sumeet is a BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Global Responsible Leaders Fellow.

He is an Operating Partner at the top-tier European VC tech fund, C4 Ventures, founded by Pascal Cagni, former EMIEA GM of Apple and Ambassador of France for International Investments.

Sumeet has a Master’s in Management/ Grande ecole program from HEC Paris. He got his Bachelor’s in Commerce from H.R College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai and studied at Campion School, Mumbai.

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Speakers

Program
Friday, August 26th
Welcome Coffee 9h30 - 10h00
Welcome speakers
  • Alain PICHON, President of the Vienne Departmental Council
  • Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN Former Prime Minister, Honorary Member of the French Parliament, Chairman of the Foundation Prospective and Innovation
10h00 - 10h15
Keynote Speaker : Rachel KHAN, Lawyer, essayist and columnist 10h15 - 10h30
Video Interview between Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN and Tertius ZONGO, Former Prime minister of Burkina Faso, Senior Fellow and Director of the Sahel Chair at the FERDI 10h30 - 10h45
1 – Political ruptures : the end of the free-market cycle ? 10h45-12h15
Lunch 12h15 - 13h45
2 - Economic changes: is this the Asian century ?
Opening video of Jean-Paul BETBEZE, University Professor of Economic Sciences (em.)
  • Denis RANQUE, President of the Academy of Technologies, former President of Thales
  • Patrick BRANDMAIER, General Director of the franco-german chamber of commerce and industry
  • Catherine LUBOCHINSKY, Professor of economic sciences, member of the cercle of economists, member of the scientific committee of the APCR
  • Sumeet ANAND, President of the French-Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Founder of Insight Growth Partner
13h45 - 15h00
3 - Geopolitical changes: Where are we heading ?
Opening video of Vera SONGWE, Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Africa
15h00 - 16h20
Keynote Speaker : Rachel KHAN, Lawyer, essayist and columnist 16h20 - 16h30
Closing Remarks by
  • André CHIENG, Chairman and CEO of the Asian European Commerce (AEC) and Vice Chairman of the France-China Committee
  • Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN Former Prime Minister, Honorary Member of the French Parliament, Chairman of the Foundation Prospective and Innovation
16h30 - 17h00
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