Voices That Shaped
the Week
Every trading relationship and every partnership stands on its own legs. The UK Free Trade Agreement is going to be the most comprehensive agreement that India has entered into so far, and it will come into force in July.
Piyush Goyal
Minister of Commerce & Industry, India
The UK–India FTA was part of a comprehensive resetting of the relationship between Britain and India. When two leaders are so committed to something, and their rapport and relationship are so strong, it puts a rocket under us when it comes to breaking down barriers.
Peter Kyle
Secretary of State for Business and Trade, UK
For me, the greatest achievement is that the UK and India now instinctively see one another as primary partners across investment, business, academia, government and people-to-people relationships. The psychological ease of doing business together will now scale.
Kanishka Narayan MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Come to Gujarat without fear. Your investments are secure because Gujarat has robust policies, stable governance and a proven track record of delivery over the last two decades.
Kanubhai Desai
Finance Minister, Government of Gujarat
History will not judge us by the conversations we have had. It will judge us by what we build next: the businesses we create, the capital we deploy, the technologies we commercialise, the regions we connect and the partnerships we sustain through disciplined execution.
Manoj Ladwa
Founder & Chairman, IGF
Biotech is a huge opportunity because computational biology has never been at this scale before. AI has made a huge transformational difference to the way we look at life sciences. The fact that we have got a lot of capabilities in life sciences, both in terms of talent and academic innovation, gives us that opportunity to leverage it.
