PM Modi to hit ground running in NYC, to meet Elon Musk and other top thought leaders

The prime minister is visiting the US from June 21-24 at the invitation of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden.

Published on: Jun 20, 2023, 11:11:11 IST

By Shishir Gupta

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet billionaire investor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in New York during his State visit to the United States. In an attempt to enhance people-to-people connect, the prime minister will also meet over two dozen thought leaders from various walks of life today in New York, including Nobel laureates, economists, artists, scientists, scholars, entrepreneurs, academicians, and health sector experts.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

The meetings will be aimed at achieving better synergy, understanding the developments in the US, and inviting people to collaborate with India, according to people aware of the matter.

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Modi will be meeting Elon Musk for the first time since the tech billionaire took over Twitter Inc. last year and introduced sweeping changes in the platform as well as the company's content policies.

The top thought leaders who will be holding discussions with the prime minister include renowned American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, senior World Bank official Paul Romer, Lebanese-American essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, investor Ray Dalio, and American singer Falu Shah.

The other eminent personalities are Jeff Smith, an author and research fellow in Heritage's Asian Studies Center, focusing on South Asia; Michael Froman, former US trade representative, former US diplomat Daniel Russel; Bureaucrat Elbridge A. Colby; celebrated American physician Peter Agre, a Nobel laureate; and musical artist Chandrika Tandon. In 2003, Agre received Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporin water channels.

Prime Minister Modi is visiting the US at the invitation of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden. They will host Modi at a state dinner on June 22. The visit also includes an address to the joint session of the US Congress on June 22. During the historic State visit, Prime Minister Modi will address a joint session of the US Congress for the second time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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