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What makes a modern Free Trade Agreement truly strategic? The latest Hindustan Times piece by John Clarke, former Director for International Relations at the European Commission and former Head of the EU Delegation to the WTO and UN, and Suryaprabha Sadasivan, Managing Principal at Chase Advisors, explores why the India–EU Free Trade Agreement should be viewed as far more than a negotiation over tariff concessions. As global supply chains evolve and economic security assumes greater importance, the real value of trade agreements increasingly lies in building regulatory trust, aligning standards, strengthening investment confidence and deepening long-term institutional partnerships. For businesses, this means the opportunities extend well beyond market access. Understanding the evolving policy and regulatory landscape, anticipating standards and building trusted stakeholder relationships will be critical to creating long-term value. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/g-4u52xq #IndiaEU #FTA #PublicPolicy #ChaseAdvisors John Alistair Clarke | Manash K Neog | Suryaprabha Sadasivan | Kaushal Mahan | Avian We. FIPRA Public Affairs

As India accelerates its AI ambitions, the conversation is rightly focused on compute, infrastructure and innovation. But there is another question that deserves equal attention: how can AI help governments make better public decisions? Our latest opinion piece argues that one of AI's most transformative applications could lie in environmental governance. From water security and disaster preparedness to pollution monitoring and ecosystem management, India already generates vast volumes of environmental data. The opportunity now is to connect these datasets, apply AI meaningfully and build stronger decision-support systems that enable governments to anticipate risks rather than simply respond to them. The piece makes the case that AI's public value will ultimately be measured not only by the sophistication of its models, but by how effectively it strengthens governance and improves development outcomes. A timely perspective by Leena Nandan, Former Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Distinguished Fellow at TERI, and Suryaprabha Sadasivan, Managing Principal, Chase Advisors. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gJtHs8Zf . TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute | Avian We. | Manash K Neog | Suryaprabha Sadasivan | Kaushal Mahan . #ArtificialIntelligence #PublicPolicy #ChaseAdvisors

India has shown the world that wildlife can recover. The next challenge is ensuring people and wildlife thrive together. As India strengthens its global leadership in wildlife conservation through the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA), the conversation must evolve beyond protecting species to enabling coexistence. Conservation success has led to growing interactions between people and wildlife, making human-wildlife conflict one of the defining policy challenges of the next decade. In the latest opinion piece in Hindustan Times, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Member of Parliament & Suryaprabha Sadasivan, Managing Principal at Chase Advisors argues that conservation and development need not be competing priorities. The future lies in combining technology, community participation, innovative financing, timely compensation, and responsive governance to build a model where protecting biodiversity also strengthens livelihoods and rural resilience. As countries across the world grapple with balancing ecological protection and economic growth, India’s experience offers an opportunity to shape a globally relevant model—one that demonstrates conservation is not simply about protecting wildlife, but about creating a future where both people and nature flourish. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gQ5zKr54 Nitin Mantri | Manash K Neog l Kaushal Mahan | Avian We. #ChaseAdvisors #PublicPolicy

India’s textile sector stands at a critical juncture, where advancing sustainability requires moving beyond commitments towards scalable circular solutions across the value chain. The transition is no longer about meeting compliance requirements. It's about building global competitiveness, from improving resource efficiency and enabling textile-to-textile recycling to strengthening traceability, building secondary material markets, and creating collaborative pathways for industry-wide adoption. As part of Bharat Tex 2026, International Council for Circular Economy and Chase Advisors convened a Roundtable Discussion on 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. The session brought together policymakers, industry leaders, MSMEs, and academia to deliberate on the key enablers required to accelerate India’s circular textile transition. Key areas of discussion included: 🧵Building enabling frameworks for circularity across the textile value chain 🏗️Strengthening collection, sorting, recycling infrastructure, and markets for secondary materials 🏭Leveraging innovation, technology, and traceability solutions like Digital Product Passports (DPPs) 🌱Enhancing transparency and accountability ♻️Bridging policy ambition with industry implementation to scale circular business models The discussion highlighted the need for a collaborative approach to transform circular textile ambitions into measurable action. As India positions itself as a global textile manufacturing hub, embedding circularity across the sector will be critical for enhancing resource resilience, strengthening competitiveness, and creating sustainable value chains. We thank all stakeholders who contributed their insights and perspectives towards advancing the dialogue on circular textiles and supporting India’s journey towards a circular economy. Congratulations to our team Ishanvi Makhaik, Spriha Pandey, Anirban Deb and Kaushal Mahan for curating the timely and meaningful session, and thank you International Council for Circular Economy and Shalini Goyal Bhalla for the partnership. Ministry of Textiles, Government of India | MoEF&CC | Manash K Neog | Kaushal Mahan | Suryaprabha Sadasivan #ICEF2026 #WCEF2026 #BharatTex2026 #CircularTextiles #CircularEconomy #ResourceEfficiency #TextileInnovation #CircularFashion #DigitalProductPassport #ESG #GreenManufacturing #ResourceEfficiency #ClimateAction #NetZero #GreenGrowth #MakeInIndia #AtmanirbharBharat

Women's health policy has often been discussed in silos. Maternal health. Family planning. Menopause. Healthy ageing. The challenge is that women don't experience health in chapters. A health system designed around isolated stages of life risks overlooking the connections between them. The decisions made early, the treatment pathways chosen today, and the financing models that support them all shape health outcomes years, and often decades, later. This was the central premise of the dialogue "Beyond Family Planning: A Lifecycle Approach to Women's Health", convened by Chase Advisors. The discussion brought together policymakers, clinicians, public health experts, patient advocates and industry to examine how India can move towards a health system that values prevention alongside treatment, expands informed clinical choice, and aligns financing with better long term outcomes for women. Progress in women's health will not come from viewing individual conditions in isolation. It will come from rethinking how policy, clinical practice and financing work together across a woman's lifetime. Our sincere thanks to all the speakers for sharing their time, expertise and perspectives. We look forward to building on this discussion through a forthcoming report that seeks to advance the conversation on strengthening women's health across the lifecycle. · Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India - FOGSI- Dr Bhaskar Pal | Dr. K. Madan Gopal | Beena Joshi | Shweta Rai | Bindu Bajaj |Dr Reena Yadav | Dr Ashok Kumar| Poonam Muttreja | Narendra Gupta | Sharad Iyengar | Bimla Upadhyay | Aditi Roy | Anubha Mukherjee | Madhu Sinha | Deepti Shrivas | Vaishnavi Sivasankar . Avian We. | We. Communications . Nitin Mantri | Manash K Neog | Suryaprabha Sadasivan | Kaushal Mahan | abantika ghosh | Akshay Singh | Priyanshi Shrivastava #WomensHealth #HealthPolicy #LifecycleApproach #SavetheUterus

Chase Advisors partnered with the Alliance for Pathogen Surveillance Innovations (APSI)–India to convene a closed-door, high-level roundtable on"Viksit Bharat 2047: Advancing India's One Health Roadmap through Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance." Chaired by Dr. M Srinivas, Member, NITI Aayog, and co-chaired by Dr. Rajiv Bahl, Director General, ICMR & Secretary, Department of Health Research, the Roundtable brought together senior voices from the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India , NCDC, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), ICAR- Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Agrinnovate India Limited - A Government of India Enterprise, NIOH (National Institute Of Occupational Health), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India, and private-sector innovators including Huwel Lifesciences and GenePath — for a candid, outcome-oriented dialogue on embedding wastewater and environmental surveillance more fully within the National One Health Mission. Moderated by Abantika Ghosh, Group Business Director, Chase Advisors, the discussion was anchored around four questions that will shape India's next phase of pandemic preparedness: ➡️ Operationalising wastewater surveillance within the National One Health Mission ➡️ Governance & interoperability across human, animal and environmental health systems ➡️ Early warning for pandemic preparedness, AMR and zoonotic risk ➡️ Public–private and academia–government models for scale The conversation reinforced a shared conviction — that surveillance is no longer a research activity alone, but a continuous, decision-ready system that must sit at the heart of India's public health architecture. #ChaseAdvisors #ViksitBharat2047 #PublicPolicy APSI-India | Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)| Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India | abantika ghosh | Manash K Neog | Kaushal Mahan | Suryaprabha Sadasivan | Rakesh Mishra | Vinay Nandicoori | LS SHASHIDHARA | Aruna Panda | Anuj Pattanayak | Praveen Malik | Nikhil Phadke

Chase Advisors was pleased to participate in the roundtable on “𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿 (𝗥𝗧𝗥): 𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁” held in New Delhi, hosted by the 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 (𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗜) - an Indicc Initiative in collaboration with Centre for Energy, Environment & People (CEEP) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). Our team member, Spriha Pandey, contributed to a multi-stakeholder discussion bringing together policymakers, industry leaders, and consumer advocates to deliberate on the evolving Right to Repair framework in India. The discussion highlighted the growing policy momentum around RTR, particularly the proposed Repairability Index and its potential to reshape the electronics ecosystem. Key themes emerging from the discussion included the need to position repair as a core pillar of India’s circular economy strategy, alongside strengthening the repair ecosystem through greater access to spare parts, tools, and repair information for MSMEs and independent repairers. As India advances its Right to Repair agenda, discussions such as these will be critical in shaping a framework that is both practical and equitable, one that supports consumer welfare while catalysing a more resilient and circular electronics ecosystem. #RightToRepair #CircularEconomy #PublicPolicy #Sustainability #ConsumerRights #IndiaPolicy Manash K Neog | Kaushal Mahan | Suryaprabha Sadasivan

Nikhil Rathi, Senior Account Director at Chase Advisors, joined the panel discussion, “Harmonising Regulation Across States: Bridging Policy Gaps and Legal Ambiguities,” held as part of the launch of CUTS International’s new report on bike-taxi and aggregator regulation. The discussion focused on the need for a more coherent and predictable regulatory framework for India’s evolving urban mobility ecosystem. While the Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines 2025 provide a useful template, their non-binding nature has led to fragmented regulatory approaches across states. The panel highlighted the need for a common safety and welfare baseline, stronger Centre-State coordination, time-bound policy harmonisation, regulatory sandboxes, and shared data frameworks. These measures can bring greater consistency to implementation while allowing states the flexibility to respond to local needs. Congratulations to the CUTS International team on the launch of this timely report and for creating an important platform for dialogue on the future of urban mobility in India. #UrbanMobility #PublicPolicy #ChaseAdvisors __ Avian We. | Manash K Neog | Suryaprabha Sadasivan | Kaushal Mahan |Nikhil R.

📅📢 Happening Tomorrow Can India Build a Harmonised Regulatory Framework for Bike Taxi Services? Bike taxi services have emerged as an important mobility option across India. Yet, differing regulatory approaches across states continue to create uncertainty for commuters, drivers, platforms, and policymakers. On 14 July 2026, #CUTSInternational will launch a new report examining pathways towards a more harmonised regulatory framework for bike taxi services in India. Key findings from the report perspectives from policymakers and industry leaders. Discussion on the future of urban mobility regulations. Registrations are now open. To register please scan the QR code or click the link below. https://lnkd.in/giVaiKyb Gopal Krishna Agarwal Dr. Nitin R. Gokarn Pradeep Mehta Amol Kulkarni Varidhi Singh VIJAY S. Ujjwal Kumar Neha Shrivastava Tasmita Sengupta Yamini Kumawat Madhvendra Singh Panwar Ram Saran Bhavika Khatter NITI Aayog , Suman K. Bery Amitabh Kant Manasvi Mann Rohit Rathod Shantanu S. Sudhir Krishna Shakti Sinha The Economic Times Money Control The Hindu ABHAY DAMLE SUMANTA BISWAS Pratyush Banerjee Chhavi Banswal Paroma BHAT Electric One Gaurav Bhatiani Nikhil R. Anil Sasi Pravesh Biyani Shreya Yadav Aditya Prakash Rao Bhartiya janta Party bjp #MobilityPolicy #UrbanMobility #BikeTaxi #TransportPolicy #PublicPolicy #OLA #UBER #RAPIDO