IU President Michael A. McRobbie (center), and IU Executive Vice President and Bloomington Provost Lauren Robel (right) speak with Flame University Vice Chancellor Devi Singh before the sixth annual Patrick O'Meara International Lecture begins. Provost Robel met with Vice Chancellor Singh in October during a trip to India. IU President Michael A. McRobbie shakes hands with Narendra Jadhav's grandson, Agastya, as the boy's father Tanmoy Jadhav (right) watches. The Jadhav family traveled to IU Bloomington to hear Narendra Jadhav, an IU alumnus, economist, writer and educator and a member of India's parliament, speak. Jadhav was selected to give the sixth annual Patrick O'Meara International Lecture in Presidents Hall.IU President Michael A. McRobbie welcomes the audience to the annual Patrick O'Meara lecture series and introduces Professor and Vice President Emeritus Patrick O'Meara.IU President Michael A. McRobbie welcomes Professor and Vice President Emeritus Patrick O'Meara (left) to the stage.IU Professor and Vice President Emeritus Patrick O'Meara introduced Narendra Jadhav, the speaker of the 2016 Patrick O'Meara International Lecture. Jadhav, who earned a doctorate in economics from IU in 1986, served the Reserve Bank of India for 31 years, retiring in 2008 from the position of principal advisor and chief economist. He also worked for four years at the International Monetary Fund.Professor and Vice President Emeritus Patrick O'Meara welcomes Narendra Jadhav to the stage. From 2006 to 2009, Jadhav was vice chancellor of the University of Pune, the largest traditional university in the world with 650,000 students.Narendra Jadhav delivers his lecture, "India and the United States: Caste, Race and Economic Growth," to a packed room.
IU President Michael A. McRobbie (center) listens as Narendra Jadhav delivers his lecture.Narendra Jadhav delivers his lecture during the sixth annual Patrick O'Meara International Lecture. In addition to presenting the O'Meara Lecture, Jadhav participated in a series of activities with faculty and students at the IU School of Global and International Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Kelley School of Business and the Hutton Honors College over a three-day visit to campus.IU President Michael A. McRobbie congratulates Narendra Jadhav on the speech he gave on the topic of "India and the United States: Caste, Race and Economic Growth."Following his lecture, Narendra Jadhav (right) poses for a photo with his son Agastya Jadhav (left), his grandson Tanmoy Jadhav (front row) and IU President Michael A. McRobbie.Narendra Jadhav answers questions posed by students following his lecture in Presidents Hall.
