Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Dr G. Venkat Raman is Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Indore. A Sinologist by training, he received his PhD from Peking University, Beijing, and is fluent in Mandarin. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, during 2023–24, where he taught The China Challenge and researched US–China strategic rivalry.
His current research focuses on China, global governance, multilateralism, geopolitics and international political economy, with particular interest in India and China’s engagement with the evolving global order. He teaches courses on geopolitics and international business, global governance, China, and business ethics. He has held research and teaching affiliations with Fudan University, Shanghai, and ICN Business School, France, and is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of China Studies, New Delhi.
Venkat has published academic research and case studies on China and related themes and is co-editor of Locating BRICS in the Global Order: Perspectives from the Global South (Routledge). He also contributes regularly to leading English-language newspapers and international policy platforms, including East Asia Forum, The Interpreter and Asia Times, writing on China, geopolitics, global governance and the changing international political economy.
Indian companies are more alert to geopolitics. The task now is to turn that awareness into capability: map dependencies, protect what matters, adapt the enterprise, and find competitive advantage in fragmentation.
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Why India’s corporate leaders can no longer separate digital risk from strategic resilience
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Neither of them wants an economic MAD (mutually assured destruction), and this is a tactical pause. This is the third column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Despite the slowdown in its economy, Xi Jinping has not intervened with a stimulus package. The reason is a big shift in his policy, which is focused on building self-reliance. And this China Dream calls for patience and collective sacrifice by the Chinese nation
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
The crucial Chinese Communist Party congress next month will likely usher in a new breed of technocrats in its highest decision making bodies. In that there are clues to shifts in the country’s domestic and foreign policy
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
While China, Europe and the US have their own reasons for regulation, the global trend is also defined by tech nationalism, a desire to protect homegrown tech companies, and competition between the three regions. Part 4 of this 4-part series explores this ‘technomic war’ and what the implications are for India
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Under the Biden administration, there’s an urgency building up for regulation. There’s bipartisan support, though there are dissenting voices too. And ironically, Big Tech itself is lobbying for federal rules. Part 3 of this 4-part series decodes the US ecosystem
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
The EU's two-pronged approach to tech regulation is focused on protecting individual privacy and checking cartelization by Big Tech. Europe's GDPR is considered the gold standard in extensive tech regulation. However, there are unintended consequences and new challenges
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
China has taken a U-turn from boosting its tech firms as ‘national champions’. In part 1 of this 4-part series on the global moves to rein in Big Tech, we explore the political, economic and social motivations of the Chinese state in clipping the wings of its consumer-tech giants
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
The regulatory pushback was long in the making. And it has as much to do with Alibaba's dominance, a wariness of big businesses, and deeper socio-cultural issues
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
China's growing tech prowess, access to Big Data, and its expanding digital footprint gives it a strategic advantage—in espionage and surveillance, in global finance, and global trade. All of which will play a decisive role in determining China’s role in international politics and business. Read part 2 of this two-part article
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
It’s important for India to understand the Sino-US ‘techonomic’ rivalry in emerging technologies like AI, 5G, and IoT, and China’s efforts to carve out a sphere of influence. So that it can tweak its own relationship with China. Read part one of this two-part essay
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Today, the country’s focus is on exploiting the benefits of economic modernisation to redefine the goals of society in three critical areas: environmental regulation, technological innovation, and corporate social responsibility. Insights from a week-long immersion
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
