The Columbia Business School's Jerome A. Chazen Institute and Columbia Global Center Mumbai’s India forum titled, Can AI Go From Risky Gamble to Winning Game-Changer? explored the promise and pitfalls of digital twins —AI-generated doubles that simulate individuals’ behavior—are quickly reshaping how businesses engage with their customers. A participatory debate weighed rapid AI adoption's net benefits for India, highlighting gains in agriculture and healthcare against risks like errors at scale and language inequities, with consensus on paced implementation.
The Center has hosted five major dialogues on AI, bringing together Columbia faculty and leading voices from India to explore how AI is being used in health, finance, business, and digital ecosystems. These conversations have moved beyond hype to focus on what works, what doesn’t, and what responsible AI adoption should look like in the Indian context.
The Columbia HICCC Cancer Series fosters a direct exchange of life-saving insights between doctors from India and the U.S., ensuring that a breakthrough in New York or a clinical innovation in Mumbai can benefit patients thousands of miles away.
Columbia Global announces two unique opportunities for Columbia faculty and displaced scholars to conduct research at one of our Global Centers.
Columbia Global Center Mumbai, in partnership with Columbia University’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC), Tata Memorial Centre, and the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre, hosted the fourth webinar in the Columbia HICCC Cancer Series on December 12, 2025, focusing on Advances in Colorectal Cancer: Precision Treatment and Surgical Innovations
An expert roundtable conevened by Columbia Global Center Mumbai recently explored how evidence, creativity, and collaboration can help reshape nutrition education in the country. The discussion, titled “Addressing Nutritional Challenges Faced by Adolescents in India,” brought together experts from Columbia University and India to rethink how healthy eating can become not just a necessity but an aspiration for India’s young generation.
Drawing on mapping exercises in cities like Mumbai, Dr Jacqueline Klopp, Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development and Co-Director of PRISM's (People, Resources, Information and Systems for Mobility) work emphasizes the sheer scale of daily auto rickshaw trips and the essential role these vehicles play in neighborhoods underserved by buses or metros, particularly in marginalised informal settlements
The fourth episode of the "NIUA Expert Talk Series" featured Dr. Alex de Sherbinin, Columbia Climate School as he explored how climate change is influencing rural to urban migration and whether cities are prepared to handle the resulting population shifts. In collaboration with Columbia Global Center Mumbai, three sessions of this ongoing talk series for India's senior government officials will feature experts from Columbia University
The second webinar in the Columbia HICCC Cancer Series, “Head and Neck Cancer: From Diagnosis to Therapy” brought together leading oncologists from India and the U.S. to explore comprehensive care strategies across every stage of the cancer journey. The series aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and promote research collaborations on different types of cancer between the two countries.
As part of the Climate Collective Foundation’s flagship event, Climate Startup Week 2025, Columbia Global Center Mumbai, in collaboration with Columbia Business School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute, hosted an exclusive strategy workshop designed for early-stage climate startups. The session was led by Professor Nataliya Wright, Assistant Professor of Business Management Division of Columbia Business School, known for her expertise in guiding startups through growth challenges.
On April 30, Columbia Global Center Mumbai connected Indian scholars with Columbia University faculty in a Virtual Workshop for Fulbright Aspirants. Designed to address a common hurdle in the Fulbright-Nehru application process—finding the right faculty mentor—the workshop provided an opportunity for one-on-one academic engagement and exploration of collaborative research pathways.
Early-career scholars who hold refugee status or have been forcibly displaced are invited to apply until March 19, 2025.