Welcome Speeches | JLF Valladolid Spain 2024

Welcome Speeches | JLF Valladolid Spain 2024 | Antonio Largo, Dinesh K. Patnaik, Blanca Jiménez, Mar Sancho, Namita Gokhale, William Dalrymple, Sanjoy K. Roy and Guillermo Rodríguez
Dinesh K. Patnaik is a career diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service with an experience of over 30 years in a variety assignments. He has served in Indian Missions in Geneva, Dhaka, Beijing and Vienna. He was India’s Ambassador to Cambodia from 2012 to 2015, to the Kingdom of Morocco from 2015 to 2016. He was also Deputy High Commissioner of India to London from 2016 to 2018. He was Director-General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Ambassador Patnaik assumed charge as Ambassador of India to Spain and Andorra in January 2022.
Sanjoy K. Roy, an entrepreneur of the arts, is Managing Director of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 festivals in 42 cities and 17 countries, including the world’s largest literary gathering - the Jaipur Literature Festival and international editions of JLF. He is a founder-trustee of Salaam Baalak Trust, working to provide support services for street and working children in the inner city of Delhi where over 1,30,000 children have benefited from education, training and residential services. Roy is the Co-chair of the Art and Culture Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and former President of Event and Entertainment Management Association. He lectures at and works in collaboration with leading universities across the world and has been conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of the University honoris causa by University of York, UK, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the arts and society.
Guillermo Rodríguez is the founding director of Casa de la India, a pioneering cultural centre in Spain, which has become the model for India’s cultural diplomacy abroad. A passionate traveller, he lived in South India throughout the 1990s. He is the author of When Mirrors Are Windows: A View of AK Ramanujan’s Poetics and co-editor of Journeys. A Poet’s Diary.
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