The annual meeting

The CEO Forum

The annual meeting of the CEO Forum coincides with meetings of the Indian and Australian Prime Ministers and Trade Ministers.

2024 CEO Forum

The Australia-India CEO Forum presented its final recommendations to the Indian and Australian Governments in October 2024 in a virtual meeting chaired by Australia Co-chair Shemara Wikramanayake, Managing Director and CEO Macquarie Group and Indian Co-chair Anish Shah, Group CEO, Mahindra.

Australian Trade and Tourism Minister The Hon. Don Farrell and Indian Minister for Commerce and Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal have now received recommendations across 20 policy areas from the CEO Forum’s five joint working groups. You can read the communique form the Chairs here.

We thank the following companies for chairing the joint working groups for Australia:

Agritech – GrainCorp and Mahindra Agri Solutions
Energy, Resources, Critical Minerals and Net Zero – Fortescue and Torrent Power
Education – University of Melbourne and SP Jain School of Global Management
Digital Economy – Telstra and TCS
Infrastructure, Finance and Investment – Macquarie Group and Bank of Baroda

The Business Council of Australia and the Confederation of Indian Industry are now developing the 2025 CEO Forum Workplan.