Shloka Nath is a former Senior Researcher at Gateway House. Previously, Shloka was the Principal Correspondent with Forbes India, specialising in Strategic Affairs, Financial Inclusion and Business and Law. A graduate from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a BSc in Government, she has worked as a broadcast journalist with the BBC in London and as an Anchor and News Correspondent with New Delhi Television (NDTV) in Mumbai. She was a speechwriter at the House of Lords and during her tenure, successfully established an All Party Parliamentary Group for Entrepreneurs. Shloka has also worked on promoting press freedom worldwide for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York.
She is currently studying Public Policy at Harvard‘s Kennedy School of Government.
Education
BSc in Government, London School of Economics and Political Science
Expertise
Financial Inclusion and Business, Law, Strategic Affairs
Pankaj Saran, India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh, talks to Gateway House about the current relationship between the two countries and the prominent issues that need to be addressed for a durable partnership.
While the fractious Indo-Bangladesh relationship has made progress over the past few months, both sides must engage in environmental diplomacy in the vulnerable Sundarbans region to ensure bilateral prosperity.
Gateway House’s Shloka Nath examines the causes of disagreements between India and Bangladesh, and makes recommendations to resolve them – which can lead to an intelligent management and protection of the Sunderbans.
The mass uprising consuming Egypt shows a country on the sidelines of the economic development that has been sweeping the world from Brazil to China to Vietnam.
As London gears up to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, tells Gateway House's Shloka Nath what Mumbai can take away from London’s plans for renewal and expansion. Johnson likens Mumbai’s vibrancy and potential to London’s appeal.
C. Raja Mohan spoke to Gateway House’s Shloka Nath about the new threats in the Indian Ocean where geopolitical players like China have already arrived, India’s lack of assertion over its natural waters and the necessity for corporate India to develop a strategic view of India’s global interests.
The Sundarbans, one of world’s most endangered eco-systems, sits on the sensitive border between India and Bangladesh, and the issues that surround it have the potential to either advance or regress the relationship between the two neighbours
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