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Gold Sponsors
Zell Center for Risk Research

Silver Sponsors
CIBER: Center for International Business Education and Research
Committee on International Affairs for Public Policy
University of Chicago Student Government

Bronze Sponsors
Emerging Markets Group

Promotional consideration courtesy of:
Micro Capital

Distinguished Speakers and Panelists:

Keynote Speakers: Vikram Akula Chairperson and Founder of SKS Microfinance
  Michael Chu Senior Lecturer in the Initiative on Social Enterprise of the General Management Group at the Harvard Business School
  Raghuram Rajan Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
     
Panelists & Moderators: Susan Alnaqib Co-President, Chicago Community Ventures
  Jane Bieneman Director of Financial Advisory Services, BlueOrchard Finance USA
  Paul Blyth Chief Financial Officer, MicroPlace Inc
  Jonathan Brereton Chief Executive and Lending Officer, ACCION Chicago
  Jason Cons Director of Research and Project Design, The Goldin Institute
  Ron Dadina Managing Director and Senior Credit Officer, Minlam Asset Management
  Linda Darragh Director of Entrepreneurship Programs, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business & Board Member, ACCION Chicago
  Ulysses de la Torre Director of Research, Distributed Capital Group
  Thomas Derdak, PhD Founder and Executive Director, Global Alliance for Africa
  Roland Dominicé Executive Director, Symbiotics
  Jesse Fripp Vice President, ShoreBank International
  Mike Gabriel Associate, Grameen Foundation
  Gwyneth Galbraith Director of Development and Evaluation, Opportunity Fund
  Jacob Haar Managing Director and Co-Founder, Minlam Asset Management
  Christian Novak Emerging Markets Consultant
  Christoph Kneiding Consultive Group to Assist the Poor
  Erin Koch Designer, IDEO
  Kathleen Robbins Co-Founder, Jatropha Pepinye
  Christian Ruehmer Co-Founder, Perfect Point Partners
  Urmi Sengupta Vice President for Knowledge Exchange, ShoreBank Int'l
  Edward Snyder Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  Dr. Robert S. Spich Faculty, Global Economics and Management, Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA
  Tamra Thetford Program Manager, Aspen Institute, FIELD Program
  Lisa Thomas Vice President of Capacity Building and Operations, ShoreCap Exchange
  Charles Wheelan, PhD Sr. Lecturer in Public Policy, The Harris School for Public Policy at the University of Chicago
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