Columbia University New York, N.Y. 10027 Office of Public Information (212) 854-5573
Manmohan Singh, India's Minister of Finance, will deliver the 1995 Gabriel Silver Lecture at Columbia University Monday, October 9.
He will speak on "Development Challenges in the Post Cold War Era" at 5 P.M. in Altschul Auditorium in the International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street at Amsterdam Avenue.
Taking office in Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao's government in 1991 in the midst of a monetary crisis, Dr. Singh won political support for a series of crucial reforms that have led to a dramatic improvement in the Indian economy and earned him the respect of economic leaders worldwide. Through his initiatives, which include loosening controls on business and monetary policy, foreign investment has risen in India and inflation and the country's deficit have been reduced.
Educated at Punjab University and at Oxford and Cambridge, Dr. Singh had served as a top-level economic adviser in the Indian government for two decades. He has also been a professor at the Delhi School of Economics of Delhi University and Punjab University, a governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a deputy chairman of the Indian Planning Commission.
The Gabriel Silver Lectures were established in 1949 by the late Leo Silver, a New Jersey industrialist, in memory of his father to stimulate public interest "to lead the way over the present barriers of suspicion and distrust between men and nations." Previous lecturers have included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Helmut Schmidt, Teddy Kollek, Bronislaw Geremek, Rajiv Gandhi, Abba Eban and Willy Brandt.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and may be made by calling JoAnn Crawford at the School of International and Public Affairs, (212) 854-8598.
Dr. Singh will also speak that evening at a reception and dinner in his honor hosted by Columbia and the Indian-American community in New York at the Plaza Hotel. Ticket information may be obtained by telephoning the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia, (212) 854-3616. Press are invited to cover his talk at about 8 P.M. at the dinner.
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