Summit: Can India Become a Global Manufacturing Hub?

The Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University will present its fifth annual India Summit, Can India Become a Global Manufacturing Hub?, on October 5, 2026, as part of the Vivek and Vandana Sharma India Initiative. Building on past summits that explored innovation, the startup economy, sustainability, and family business, this year's summit turns to India's emerging role as a manufacturing mecca.

The day-long program will bring together policymakers, corporate executives, and academics to examine how multinational firms are shifting manufacturing operations to India and what that shift means for global supply chains. Speakers will include Shri Amitabh Kant, former CEO of NITI Aayog and India's G20 Sherpa; Josh Foulger, a senior figure in Indian electronics manufacturing; along with Shri S. Raghuram, India's Consul General in Boston, among many others. The summit will dig into how India can compete internationally, both in labor-intensive manufacturing that creates jobs and in high-end, branded production.

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About the Vivek and Vandana Sharma India Initiative

CEM's 2025 India Summit is part of the Vivek and Vandana Sharma India Initiative, an endowed initiative at the Center for Emerging Markets with an aim to expand and deepen engagement with economic and business issues in India. It supports CEM's India Lecture series; enables scholars, students, and practitioners from India to complete visiting terms at the CEM; encourages D'Amore-McKim and CEM faculty to conduct use-inspired research in India; and creates a community of business leaders in the U.S. and India with a special interest in American-Indian economic ties.

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