--- description: Modi will travel to Silicon Valley to visit Facebook and Google over the weekend title: Indian PM Modi Meets Fortune 500 CEOs in New York City image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # India's Prime Minister Modi Meets Fortune 500 CEOs, Invites Them to 'Make in India' by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 25, 2015 8:51 AM CUT by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 25, 2015 8:51 AM CUT India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to present his country as an increasingly attractive investment destination for overseas firms in a [meeting](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34355815 "undefined") with several top industry leaders in New York City on Thursday. Modi said during a dinner with 47 heads of various Fortune 500 companies — including Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn, Boeing International president Marc Allen and media magnate Rupert Murdoch — that he intends to implement “reform in governance” that will make foreign investment easier, the BBC reported. > [](https://twitter.com/MEAIndia/status/647190550190399488) He also invited them to join his Make in India initiative, which aims to increase the South Asian nation’s manufacturing capabilities. Murdoch later tweeted his admiration of Modi and appreciation for their meeting, while acknowledging that the Indian leader has a difficult road ahead. > [](https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/647240375917256704) “Everyone was happy with the changes in India,” Vikas Swarup, spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, said after the meeting. “Their only demand was that the changes be faster.” Modi is following a somewhat similar itinerary to that of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is [also currently in the U.S](http://time.com/4042299/china-white-house-foreign-relations-foreign-affairs-xi-jinping/ "undefined"). He will next travel to California’s Silicon Valley to [visit](http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/09/24/usa-india-tech-idINKCN0RN26820150924 "undefined") tech giants Google and Facebook, including participating in a town hall with the latter’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg — whom Xi [met](https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102387539239021?fref=nf "undefined") along with other business leaders in Seattle on Wednesday. The Indian Prime Minister will also meet U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the U.N. summit in New York City on Friday. \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34355815 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4049701/narendra-modi-india-fortune-500-ceo-facebook-google/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4049701/narendra-modi-india-fortune-500-ceo-facebook-google/"},"headline":"India's Prime Minister Modi Meets Fortune 500 CEOs, Invites Them to 'Make in India'","datePublished":"2015-09-25T08:51:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:15:53.389Z","description":"Modi will travel to Silicon Valley to visit Facebook and Google over the weekend","url":"https://time.com/4049701/narendra-modi-india-fortune-500-ceo-facebook-google/","keywords":["Barack Obama","Google","India","New York","facebook","Xi Jinping","Narendra Modi","Mark Zuckerberg","Prime Minister","CEOs","Fortune 500"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4049701/narendra-modi-india-fortune-500-ceo-facebook-google/","name":"India's Prime Minister Modi Meets Fortune 500 CEOs, Invites Them to 'Make in India'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Obama India Trip - Natural Partners","description":"President Obama and Narenda Modi make progress on a nuclear deal.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/wDGZ9W20/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-26T06:28:09.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wDGZ9W20.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4049701/narendra-modi-india-fortune-500-ceo-facebook-google/","duration":"PT12S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4049701/narendra-modi-india-fortune-500-ceo-facebook-google/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```