Finland President Alexander Stubb Chief Guest at Raisina Dialogue 2026

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb is the Chief Guest and keynote speaker at Raisina Dialogue 2026. The eleventh Raisina Dialogue is going to be held in New Delhi from 5 March to 7 March, 2026.

• India hosted the 10th edition of Raisina Dialogue 2025 in New Delhi, in which New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon was the Chief Guest.
• Finnish President Alexander Stubb started a four-day visit to India on 4 March, 2026 to strengthen mutual cooperation in many areas including trade, investment and critical technologies.
• Upon arriving in New Delhi, Mr. Stubb said in a social media post that his visit will further strengthen relations between Finland and India including in the field of trade.
• It is a three-day event in which leaders, policymakers, academics and industry experts from around the world gather.
• Raisina Dialogue is India’s largest conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, which has been held annually in New Delhi since 2016.

About the theme of Raisina Dialogue 2026

• The theme of the year 2026 is “Sanskar – Claim, Concede, Grow” which reflects a world going through sovereignty, changing alliances and technological transformation.

Organizers of the Raisina Dialogue

• This Raisina Dialogue is organized by the Observer Research Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs. The Raisina Dialogue is named after Raisina Hill in New Delhi.
• It is India’s premier conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, comparable to the Munich Security Conference (Germany) and the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.
• ORF is a Delhi-based non-profit organization that provides policy insights to the Indian government, political and business communities and guides India’s foreign policy for better governance and quality of life.
• It is an independent think tank based in New Delhi with three centers in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.

Thematic pillars

• Contested Frontiers: Power, Polarity and Periphery
• Repairing the Commons: New Groups, New Stewards, New Pathways
• White Whales: In Search of Agenda 2030
• The Eleventh Hour: Climate, Conflict and the Cost of Delay
• Tomorrowland: Towards Tech-topia
• Trade in the Time of Tariffs: Recovery, Resilience, Reinvention

About major editions and their themes

• 2016 (First): "Asia: Regional and Global Connectivity".
• 2022 (Seventh): "Terranova: Impassioned, Impatient, and Imperiled".
• 2025 (Tenth): "Kalachakra – People, Peace and Planet".