Pawan Luthra - Indian Link Media Group - Making connections: leveraging the Indian diaspora for business success

Presented by Pawan Luthra,CEO Indian Link Media Group

Making Connections: leveraging the Indian diaspora for business success

A social phenomenon, grown out of the heightenedinterconnectivity between people and the recedingeconomic and social significance of boundaries amongnation states.

Transnationalism:

American Born Desi

ABCD:

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30 million NRIs and PIOs GloballyNon-Resident Indians

The Indian Community in the US

Asian American Hotel Owner Association:

11,000 members Ownership of over 50% economy lodging 2 million combined rooms 20,000 hotels Property market value of $130 billion

American Success Stories

Satya Nadella – ComputingSalman Rushdie – Literacy

Russel Peters – ComedyPan Nalin – Documentary film making

Indra Nooyi – Woman in businessMira Nair – Film making

Amartya Sen – Economic TheoryVinod Khosla – Entrepreneurship

Hargobind Khurana – BiochemistryVenkataraman Ramakrishnan – Structural Biology

Amar Bose – Electrical and Sound EngineeringKalpana Chawla – Space exploration

Lakshmi Mittal – IndustryZubin Mehta – Classical Music

Anish Kapoor – Contemporary ArtS Chandrashekhar – AstrophysicsCK Prahlad – Corporate Strategy

Ajit Jain – Insurance

Big name inspirations from the Indian diaspora

The Indian Community in Australia:

1860 - 998 people

2016 - 433,000 + people

The early days in Australia

Special skill set of diasporans

Risk Takers Educated Innovative Flexible

The other major diasporas:

Jewish & Chinese

What the diaspora can do to leverage business:

Influencing governments Crisis response Importing best practices Bringing in new business

Why leverage the diaspora?

They know where the customers are Dealing with the local culture On their terms

Specific Industries:

Health Care STEM Education Remittances Tourism

Thank you for listening today

Presented by Pawan Luthra,CEO Indian Link Media Group