International Symposium Geneva, October 1-2, 2008
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(as of 7 November 2008)
Muhammad Yunus, Founder and President, Grameen Bank – Winner, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
Fouad Abdelmoumni, Chief Executive Officer, Al Amana
Julie Abrams, Principal, Microfinance Analytics
Matthias Adler, Principal Financial Sector Economist, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
Robert Annibale, Global Director of Microfinance, Citigroup
Michael Anthony, Project Manager Microinsurance, Allianz SE
Art Avedisian, Executive Director, Cygma
Bernd Balkenhol, Director, Social Finance Unit, International Labour Organization, and Chairman, Swiss Microfinance Platform
Jeanne Barras Zwahlen, Vice Chairwoman, Symbiotics; Member of the Advisory Board, responsAbility; former Senior Economist, Credit Suisse
Eduardo Bazoberry, Chief Executive Officer, INNOVA Empresarial
Monica Brand, Vice President and Program Manager, Global Investments, ACCION
Dirk Brouwer, Executive Director CMI, Managing Director Sequoia, Chairman ASA International
Ernst Brugger, Vice-Chairman, World Microfinance Forum Geneva; CEO, The Sustainability Forum Zürich; and Chairman, BlueOrchard
Deborah Burand, Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, International Transactions Clinic, University of Michigan
Lauren Burnhill, Chief Investment Officer, Global Investments, ACCION International
Luis Castillo, Executive President, Apoyo Integral
In Channy, President and CEO, Acleda Bank
Arup Chatterjee, Principal Administrator, International Association of Insurance Supervisors and manager of the secretariat of the IAIS Subgroup on Microinsurance
Jill Chen, Senior Program Advisor, Grameen Foundation
Enjiang Cheng, Vice President, ACCION International
Zhang Chenghui, Deputy Director General, Finance Research Institute, China State Council
Bai Chengyu, Secretary General, Chinese Association of Microfinance, and Director, Division III, China International Centre for Economic and Technical Exchanges
Michael Chu, Co-founder IGNIA Fund: Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; former President and CEO of ACCION
Karl Cordewener, Deputy Secretary General, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Jean-Philippe de Schrevel, Founder and CEO, BlueOrchard Private Equity Fund
Marc de Sousa-Shields, Managing Partner, Enterprising Solutions
David Dewez, Senior Investment Manager, Incofin
Raimar Dieckmann, Senior Economist, Deutsche Bank Research
Wagane Diouf, Managing Partner, Africap
Nathalie Dogniez, Partner, KPMG Luxembourg
Roland Dominicé, Director Investment Services, Symbiotics
Deborah Drake, Coordinator, Council of Microfinance Equity Funds and ACCION
Kate Druschel, Regional Coordinator East and South-East Asia, Grameen Foundation
Tilman Ehrbeck, Principal, McKinsey & Company
Sarah Forster, Director, Geoeconomics
Michael Grossman, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Stefan Harpe, Head of Equity Investments, Oikocredit
Brit Horschke, Principal Project Manager, Financial and Private Sector Asia, KfW Development Bank
Rolf Hüppi, Founder and Executive Chairman, ParaLife
Ganhuyag Chuluun Hutagt, Chief Executive Officer, XacBank
Jennifer Isern, Lead Microfinance Specialist and expert on China, CGAP
Mary-Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO, Women’s World Banking
Emmanuelle Javoy, Managing Director, Planet Rating
Tian Jianhua, Deputy Director General, Cooperative Finance Supervision Department, China Banking Regulatory Commission
Gao Jianhui, Deputy Division Chief of Micro and Small Enterprises, China Development Bank
Wang Jun, Lead Financial Sector Specialist in the East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank; Coordinator for the World Bank financial sector program in China
Jean-Pierre Klumpp, Chief Executive Officer, BlueOrchard Finance
Cécile Koller, Head Research, responsAbility Social Investments
Anne-Françoise Lefèvre, Head of WSBI Institutional Relations, World Savings Bank Institute
Dominic Liber, Director, Quindiem Consulting
Yu Li, Director, Research Bureau, People’s Bank of China
Jack Lowe, President, BlueOrchard Inc.; former CEO BlueOrchard Finance
Brandon Matthews, Head of Microinsurance, Zurich Financial Services
Leonor Melo de Velasco, Executive President, Fundacion Mundo Mujer - Popayan
Axel Miller, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, Dexia
Aldo Moauro, Executive Director, Microfinanza Rating
Danilo Mojica, Head, Wireless Consumer Division, Smart Communications Inc.
Mark Muller, Minister, State of Geneva, Switzerland
Venky Natarajan, Investments Director, Lok Advisory Services
Patrick Odier, Senior Managing Partner, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie, and Vice Chairman, Geneva Financial Center
Oliver Oehri, Managing Director, Microfinance Initiative Liechtenstein
Maria Otero, President, ACCION International
Cyrille Parant, Managing Director, MicroFIX
Ivan Pictet, Senior Managing Partner, Pictet & Cie; President, Geneva Financial Center
Thakker Prashant, Global Business Head Microfinance, Standard Chartered
David Quien, Program Manager, ADA Luxembourg
Xavier Reille, Lead Microfinance Specialist, CGAP
Robson Rocha, Director Low-Income Segment, Banco do Brasil
Richard Rosenberg, Senior Advisor, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor
Jim Roth, Partner, Microinsurance Centre; Chief Technical Officer, LeapFrog Investments
Eric Savage, Managing Director, Unitus Capital
Mirjam Schöning, Director, Schwab Foundation
Juan Somavia, Director-General, International Labour Organization
Paul Spijkers, Director, Alternative Investments, APG Investments
Vidya Sravanthi, Managing Director, Asmitha Microfin Ltd
Joan Trant, Chief Executive Officer, International Association of Microfinance Investors
Ken VanderWeele, President, Opportunity International Investment Services
Damian von Stauffenberg, Chief Executive Officer, MicroRate
Ian Watson, Director of Marketing, IBM Global Business Services
Du Xiaoshan, Deputy Director, Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Wang Xingzui, Executive Director, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation
Guo Zhiwen, President, Harbin Bank
Jean Zwahlen, Chairman, World Microfinance Forum Geneva; former Ambassador and Director General of the Swiss National Bank
Fouad Abdelmoumni, Chief Executive Officer, Al Amana
Julie Abrams, Principal, Microfinance Analytics
Matthias Adler, Principal Financial Sector Economist, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
Robert Annibale, Global Director of Microfinance, Citigroup
Michael Anthony, Project Manager Microinsurance, Allianz SE
Art Avedisian, Executive Director, Cygma
Bernd Balkenhol, Director, Social Finance Unit, International Labour Organization, and Chairman, Swiss Microfinance Platform
Jeanne Barras Zwahlen, Vice Chairwoman, Symbiotics; Member of the Advisory Board, responsAbility; former Senior Economist, Credit Suisse
Eduardo Bazoberry, Chief Executive Officer, INNOVA Empresarial
Monica Brand, Vice President and Program Manager, Global Investments, ACCION
Dirk Brouwer, Executive Director CMI, Managing Director Sequoia, Chairman ASA International
Ernst Brugger, Vice-Chairman, World Microfinance Forum Geneva; CEO, The Sustainability Forum Zürich; and Chairman, BlueOrchard
Deborah Burand, Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, International Transactions Clinic, University of Michigan
Lauren Burnhill, Chief Investment Officer, Global Investments, ACCION International
Luis Castillo, Executive President, Apoyo Integral
In Channy, President and CEO, Acleda Bank
Arup Chatterjee, Principal Administrator, International Association of Insurance Supervisors and manager of the secretariat of the IAIS Subgroup on Microinsurance
Jill Chen, Senior Program Advisor, Grameen Foundation
Enjiang Cheng, Vice President, ACCION International
Zhang Chenghui, Deputy Director General, Finance Research Institute, China State Council
Bai Chengyu, Secretary General, Chinese Association of Microfinance, and Director, Division III, China International Centre for Economic and Technical Exchanges
Michael Chu, Co-founder IGNIA Fund: Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; former President and CEO of ACCION
Karl Cordewener, Deputy Secretary General, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Jean-Philippe de Schrevel, Founder and CEO, BlueOrchard Private Equity Fund
Marc de Sousa-Shields, Managing Partner, Enterprising Solutions
David Dewez, Senior Investment Manager, Incofin
Raimar Dieckmann, Senior Economist, Deutsche Bank Research
Wagane Diouf, Managing Partner, Africap
Nathalie Dogniez, Partner, KPMG Luxembourg
Roland Dominicé, Director Investment Services, Symbiotics
Deborah Drake, Coordinator, Council of Microfinance Equity Funds and ACCION
Kate Druschel, Regional Coordinator East and South-East Asia, Grameen Foundation
Tilman Ehrbeck, Principal, McKinsey & Company
Sarah Forster, Director, Geoeconomics
Michael Grossman, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Stefan Harpe, Head of Equity Investments, Oikocredit
Brit Horschke, Principal Project Manager, Financial and Private Sector Asia, KfW Development Bank
Rolf Hüppi, Founder and Executive Chairman, ParaLife
Ganhuyag Chuluun Hutagt, Chief Executive Officer, XacBank
Jennifer Isern, Lead Microfinance Specialist and expert on China, CGAP
Mary-Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO, Women’s World Banking
Emmanuelle Javoy, Managing Director, Planet Rating
Tian Jianhua, Deputy Director General, Cooperative Finance Supervision Department, China Banking Regulatory Commission
Gao Jianhui, Deputy Division Chief of Micro and Small Enterprises, China Development Bank
Wang Jun, Lead Financial Sector Specialist in the East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank; Coordinator for the World Bank financial sector program in China
Jean-Pierre Klumpp, Chief Executive Officer, BlueOrchard Finance
Cécile Koller, Head Research, responsAbility Social Investments
Anne-Françoise Lefèvre, Head of WSBI Institutional Relations, World Savings Bank Institute
Dominic Liber, Director, Quindiem Consulting
Yu Li, Director, Research Bureau, People’s Bank of China
Jack Lowe, President, BlueOrchard Inc.; former CEO BlueOrchard Finance
Brandon Matthews, Head of Microinsurance, Zurich Financial Services
Leonor Melo de Velasco, Executive President, Fundacion Mundo Mujer - Popayan
Axel Miller, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, Dexia
Aldo Moauro, Executive Director, Microfinanza Rating
Danilo Mojica, Head, Wireless Consumer Division, Smart Communications Inc.
Mark Muller, Minister, State of Geneva, Switzerland
Venky Natarajan, Investments Director, Lok Advisory Services
Patrick Odier, Senior Managing Partner, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie, and Vice Chairman, Geneva Financial Center
Oliver Oehri, Managing Director, Microfinance Initiative Liechtenstein
Maria Otero, President, ACCION International
Cyrille Parant, Managing Director, MicroFIX
Ivan Pictet, Senior Managing Partner, Pictet & Cie; President, Geneva Financial Center
Thakker Prashant, Global Business Head Microfinance, Standard Chartered
David Quien, Program Manager, ADA Luxembourg
Xavier Reille, Lead Microfinance Specialist, CGAP
Robson Rocha, Director Low-Income Segment, Banco do Brasil
Richard Rosenberg, Senior Advisor, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor
Jim Roth, Partner, Microinsurance Centre; Chief Technical Officer, LeapFrog Investments
Eric Savage, Managing Director, Unitus Capital
Mirjam Schöning, Director, Schwab Foundation
Juan Somavia, Director-General, International Labour Organization
Paul Spijkers, Director, Alternative Investments, APG Investments
Vidya Sravanthi, Managing Director, Asmitha Microfin Ltd
Joan Trant, Chief Executive Officer, International Association of Microfinance Investors
Ken VanderWeele, President, Opportunity International Investment Services
Damian von Stauffenberg, Chief Executive Officer, MicroRate
Ian Watson, Director of Marketing, IBM Global Business Services
Du Xiaoshan, Deputy Director, Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Wang Xingzui, Executive Director, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation
Guo Zhiwen, President, Harbin Bank
Jean Zwahlen, Chairman, World Microfinance Forum Geneva; former Ambassador and Director General of the Swiss National Bank
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