Biswajit Chakrabarty Email & Phone Number

India

Guwahati Area, India

• Policy Advocacy: Policy research, drafting policy recommendations, white papers making policy presentations etc• Public Representation: Representing FICCI in various Government committees, public events, meetings with senior Government officials, Industry Leaders etc. • Industry Connect: Industry partnership and relationship management, Managing regional and sectoral advisory committees. Supporting Industry Members in issues related to public affairs.• Government Relations: Engaging with Central and State Governments, Think Tanks and multilateral agencies in policy dialogue. Organizing and anchoring high level meetings between Industry and Government.• Thought Leadership: Drafting Strategy papers, research on industry issues and development strategy, position papers, knowledge reports etc• Leading major initiatives : Anchoring and leading major outreach initiatives for FICCI and the Government• Internal Communication: Preparing and editing briefing notes for FICCI members, Policy papers, SOPs, handbooks etc.• External Communication: Press releases, media briefings, Social Media Campaigns, promotional films, Media relations, working with PR Agencies.• Domestic and international Trade and Investment promotion exercises.• Managing a cross functional, team looking after eight states.

Guwahati, Assam, India

• Policy Advocacy: Policy research, drafting policy recommendations, white papers making policy presentations etc• Public Representation: Representing FICCI in various Government committees, public events, meetings with senior Government officials, Industry Leaders etc. • Industry Connect: Industry partnership and relationship management, Managing regional and sectoral advisory committees. Supporting Industry Members in issues related to public affairs.• Government Relations: Engaging with Central and State Governments, Think Tanks and multilateral agencies in policy dialogue. Organizing and anchoring high level meetings between Industry and Government.• Thought Leadership: Drafting Strategy papers, research on industry issues and development strategy, position papers, knowledge reports etc• Leading major initiatives : Anchoring and leading major outreach initiatives for FICCI and the Government• Internal Communication: Preparing and editing briefing notes for FICCI members, Policy papers, SOPs, handbooks etc.• External Communication: Press releases, media briefings, Social Media Campaigns, promotional films, Media relations, working with PR Agencies.• Domestic and international Trade and Investment promotion exercises.• Managing a cross functional, team looking after eight states.

Guwahati Area, India

• Government and Industry Relations• Public Affairs : Led public affairs function in eight states, managed statutory affairs for a number of SPVs, collaborated with leading industry associations for policy advocacy with a focus on public private partnership. • Mapping PPP opportunities and drafting strategy papers.• Communication: Drafting executive briefs, pitch presentations, brochures, detailed information packs etc Creating internal communication documentation including situation papers, projections, feasibility reports etc.

Kolkata, Guwahati

Established ICC's North East Initiative from scratch. Worked closely with the state governments of north eastern region and the Ministry of DONER to promote the NE region as a investment destination. Supervised economic research, Project Facilitation, International cooperation initiatives. Key Responsibilities included:• Policy Advocacy: Policy research, policy recommendations, white papers etc • Public Representation: Representing ICC in various Government committees, public events, meetings with senior Government officials, Industry Leaders.• Industry Connect: Industry partnership and relationship management, Managing regional and sectoral advisory committees. Supporting Industry Members in issues related to public affairs.• Government Relations: Engaged with Central and State Governments, Think Tanks and multilateral agencies.• Thought Leadership: Drafted a number of strategy papers, knowledge papers etc.• Leading major initiatives : Anchoring and leading major outreach initiatives for ICC and the Government• Communication: Preparing and editing briefing notes for FICCI members, Policy papers, Press releases, media briefings, managing Social Media Campaigns, media relations handling PR Agencies.• Managing a regional team.

Guwahati Area, India

Job Responsibilities• Government Affairs: Liaison with government agencies, statutory authorities, and Industry Bodies • Communications – Developing promotional and PR strategy, leading brand building campaign in India.Key Highlights• Led government affairs and statutory compliances for implementation of countries first long distance River Cruise Project.• Led a major brand building and communications campaign in the runup to the launch of the river cruise project.

Guwahati Area, India

• Policy Advocacy –Developing policy briefing notes, policy recommendations, representations etc. • Communication – Media Relations, liaison with Government and Industry, content development for publications, organizing events, coordination with other Industry bodies.• Research – Conducting economic research with a view to providing feed back to Industry, drafting white papers etc.

Mumbai Area, India

• Administration – I was overall in charge of the companies Panvel branch office.• Sales and Marketing –I was responsible for generating sales of financial products through a sales team of over 100 agents attached to its Panvel branch. I was able to achieve considerable success in increasing the companies market presence in the entire Konkan Region of Maharastra.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, 1St Class

Activities and Societies: Debating, Quiz. Won a number of prizes at the University and Inter University level

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Activities and Societies: I was elected president of the Science Club. Was a regular participant in college debates, won a number.

Pre University Science, Science