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Day One - Monday, May 16, 2011

12:00 Registration and Pre-Conference Speed Networking Session

Take advantage of the opportunity to review the attendee list, reconnect with industry colleagues, and start to build your network of contacts during this informal networking session prior to the start of the conference program.

1:00 Congress Chairman’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

Overcoming Investment Risk

1:10 Addressing Future Microfinance Investment Risks and Opportunities

  • Building a successful risk portfolio – Identifying strategies for making safe and profitable microfinance investments within the current financial market and global economy
  • Understanding and overcoming the increasing complex challenges of portfolio growth, product diversification and institutional transformation
  • Achieving effective change management to help MFIs adapt governance structures
    • Evaluating the role of banks, MIVs and institutional investors within MFI governance
  • Assessing future investment strategies for managing potential high-risk ventures
  • How can MFI structure help counteract financial disasters similar to those witnessed in the banking sector?

Panelists:

Asad Mahmood, Managing Director, Global Social Investment Funds & Community Development Finance Group, Deutsche Bank

Monica Beck, European Fund for Southeast Europe (Invited)

Emmanuelle Javoy, CEO, PlaNet Rating

Zachary Pessin, Chief Executive Officer, Distributed Capital

2:10 Examining the Emergence of Political Risk within Microfinance

  • Assessing future opportunities of microfinance in a new era where it must co-exist with politics  
  • Evaluating the growth of microfinance within the political arena through regulators, as well as local and national governments
  • Identifying and evaluating risk for investors and practitioners who are operating in a politically-charged environment
  • Discussing sharing responsibility of risk among MFIs, investors and donors
  • Identifying future frameworks for measuring political risk as a central tool for measuring performance
  • Examining political risk case studies within regions including India, Pakistan and Nicaragua

Noor Aftab, Director Finance & Co-founder, Shahina Aftab Foundation

Mathew Albrecht, Underwriter, Credit and Political Risk, Zurich Surety, Credit & Political Risk

Byard Bridge, Vice President, INTL Global Currencies

Moderator:

Brad Swanson, Partner, Developing World Markets

3:10 Networking and Refreshment Break

Investment Growth and Expansion

3:40 Pinpointing Potential Institutional and Private Investors: Fundamental Sourcing Strategies for Microfinance

  • Sourcing future generations of institutional and private investors
    • Assessing both foreign and domestic-based investors and forecasting who will dominate the future microfinance markets
    • Evaluating investor perspectives on microfinance as an emerging market investment strategy
    • Examining the impact of negative publicity surrounding microfinance in regions including Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India
  • Identifying private investor stumbling blocks and discussing strategies to attract future investors
  • Evaluating the appetite for equity investments in MFIs
  • Examining impact investment allocation strategies in order to formulate your plan of action
  • Addressing the role of public investors, foundations, consultants and fund-of-funds

Patrick T. Fisher, Chief Executive Officer, Creation Investments

Scott J. Budde, Managing Director, Asset Management, TIAA-CREF (Invited)

Sara Vermeir ,Head of Business and Fund Development, Incofin IM

Moderator:

Michael Hokenson, Managing Director, Minlam Asset Management LLC

4:40 Examining Foreign Capital Investments in MFIs: Evaluating Social and Financial Returns

  • Exploring the influx of private sector investments and its potential influence on the social focus of microfinance development
  • Discussing the new landscape of cross-border investments
  • Examining statistics on the performances of microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs)
  • Analyzing issues confronting the microfinance equity and debt markets
  • Exploring the influx of private sector investments and how they might influence the social focus of microfinance development

Mitchell Lench, Chief Executive Officer, Treetops Capital

Richard Greenberg / Loren Rodwin, Senior Manager, Micro and SME Finance, OPIC

5:40 Chairman’s Closing Remarks. Congress adjourns until day two.