Keynote Speakers

Vaidya Joban Kishor Modha, Deputy Director
Institute of Teaching & Research in Ayurveda, Jamnagar (An Institute of National Importance),
Ministry of Ayush, Government of India, New Delhi

Himanshu Vyas, the Managing Director of Ayurnet Healthcare Private Limited, is a visionary entrepreneur with a deep-rooted passion for Ayurveda and natural healthcare solutions. With over 17 years of experience in the industry, Himanshu Vyas has played a pivotal role in the company's growth and success. His expertise lies in leveraging traditional Ayurvedic wisdom and combining it with modern scientific advancements to create products that meet the evolving health needs of individuals worldwide. Under his dynamic leadership, Ayurnet Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. has witnessed remarkable achievements. Himanshu Vyas's commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction has propelled the company to new heights and positioned it as a trusted name in the Ayurvedic healthcare industry.

Himanshu Vyas
Managing Director of Ayurnet Healthcare Private Limited

Himanshu Vyas, the Managing Director of Ayurnet Healthcare Private Limited, is a visionary entrepreneur with a deep-rooted passion for Ayurveda and natural healthcare solutions. With over 17 years of experience in the industry, Himanshu Vyas has played a pivotal role in the company's growth and success. His expertise lies in leveraging traditional Ayurvedic wisdom and combining it with modern scientific advancements to create products that meet the evolving health needs of individuals worldwide. Under his dynamic leadership, Ayurnet Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. has witnessed remarkable achievements. Himanshu Vyas's commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction has propelled the company to new heights and positioned it as a trusted name in the Ayurvedic healthcare industry.

Darshit Joshi
CEO, PharmaDocs

Prof. Moinak Maiti
FirstRand Chair | School of Economics and Finance
Editor Investment Analysts Journal, Taylor and Francis
Associate Editor Future Business Journal, Springer Nature

Dr. Rajan Sudesh Ratna is presently working as Deputy Head of South and South-West Office of UN ESCAP, New Delhi since August 2018 and leading research, policy advisory and capacity building on helping countries accelerate progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. He has led the capacity building programme of training more than 3000 women entrepreneurs from Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) of South and South-West Asia for using digital marketing and e-commerce platforms for promoting their business and becoming part of national, regional and global supply chains. For his work on empowering women in South Asia he has been awarded by: Womennovator Year Award 2021 (June 2021); Atal Samman 2023 by Manav Kalyan Society, India (January 2023); and Male Champion of the Year Award 2023 for Empowering Women’ (June 2023) by Women in Management and International Finance Cooperation in the Global Economic Forum, 2023.

Dr. Ratna is an Indian civil servant and had worked for 25 years in the Government of India, mostly in the Ministry of Commerce handling the formulations of India’s foreign trade policy and trade negotiations in WTO and FTAs. He had negotiated the Uruguay and Doha Round negotiations in WTO and India’s Free Trade Agreements. Dr. Ratna is a Ph. D. in Economics from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India; M. Phil. in Environmental Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and done an Executive Programme on Trade Policy and Negotiations from Harvard University, Boston, USA. He is a visiting Professor to various Universities - Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi; Lovely Professional University, Punjab; East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China; Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. Regional Resource Person (from Asia Pacific) for the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO’s) Regional Trade Policy Course for Asia – Pacific region from 2009 – 2018; APEC Secretariat’s capacity building programmes; Mekong Institute, Thailand; International Institute for Trade and Development (ITD), Thailand. He has organised more than 200 trainings for the policy makers as well as researchers and private sector on various topics including e-commerce, digital marketing, WTO, RTAs, negotiations, SPS, TBT, etc. He has written many books covering topics of WTO, Regional Trade Agreements; Trade Facilitation and Poverty Reduction; Rules of Origin; Mainstreaming Gender through Trade Policy; and has contributed chapters to several edited books and published several papers in peer reviewed journals. His latest publication is an edited book titled “Indian Agriculture Under the Shadows of WTO and FTAs” (Springer publications, 2021)

Vd. Jayeshkumar M. Parmar
Director, Office of Director, AYUSH Government of Gujarat

Dr. Vijaya Katti, M.A., Ph.D,, Post Doctoral Research is Professor (On Re-employment) in Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. She has superannuated from the post of Professor & Dean Administration (Academics) in Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. She is the senior-most faculty in the Institute. She has also handled the charge of Chairperson for MDP, Research and Graduate Studies Division (GSD) since 2000 in the Institute. She also acted as Director of IIFT from January to March 2007 and also from time to time in the absence of Director. She has done extensive work on Indo-Nepal Economic Relations, Indo-German Economic Relations, Indo-Canada Economic Relations, WTO Related Issues, Services, Textiles, Trade Potential of AYUSH Products, Regional Trading Arrangements and India’s FTAs with various countries. She has acted as a Consultant to Ministry of Textiles, ICRIER, Reliance Industries Ltd., Grasim Industries Ltd. Etc. She has acted as Resource Person on WTO in various countries including Dubai, Nepal, Tanzania, Indonesia, Bangkok, Colombo Plan/UNESCAP/NORAD Fund and Egypt. She was invited by UNECE to Malaysia, and also WTO Secretariat, Geneva as a Resource Person in the “Regional Trade Policy Course”, at Hong Kong University and at WTO Secretariat Geneva. She was invited by German Development Institute, Bonn, Germany as a Visiting Professor, as a Guest Scholar and also to be a discussant in various international conferences several times. She has also visited Mexico, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Nepal, Egypt & London in connection with various Research Projects. She presented papers in international conferences including University of Calgary, Canada, La Gran University, Colombia, Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu, Nepal and various national conferences.