Foreign Policy for Canada’s Tomorrow
No. 10
Doing Business in India: Success, Failure and the Prospects for Canada
Douglas Goold
November 2010
Canadian International Council www.onlinecic.org
Conseil international du Canada www.cicenligne.org
Doing Business in India: Success, Failure and the Prospects for Canada
Author Biography
Douglas Goold is Director, National Conversation on Asia and Senior Editor at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He wrote this study as a Senior Fellow of the Canadian International Council. Prior to that, he was the President of the Canadian International Council and its predecessor organization the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Dr. Goold is a well-known journalist and commentator and the former editor of The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business and Report on Business Magazine, as well as a national columnist. Dr. Goold received his PhD from Cambridge in modern history and has taught at three Canadian universities. He is the author of numerous publications on a wide variety of subjects. He has written books on the peace settlement after the First World War, the Canadian banks and The Bre-X Fraud (with Andrew Willis), a national number one bestseller. This spring, Dr. Goold testified before the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs on the rise of Russia, India and China.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Jim Balsillie, chair of the Canadian International Council, and co-CEO of Research in Motion Ltd. for his generous support of the Fellowship program. Without Jim, the CIC would not exist. I would also like to thank Jennifer Jeffs, the President and CEO of the CIC, for her support, and the wonderful staff at the Toronto office. Canada has been very well represented in India. I was very fortunate to have been assisted by Canada’s High Commissioner to India Joseph Caron (who has since retired). M. Caron was extremely helpful with advice and contacts when I visited India in November 2009...