Evaluating the Past, Creating the Future of Microfinance
Agenda
Updated as of: 04/18/2013
| 8:30 – 9:00am | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:15am | Opening Remarks Russell Walker, Associate Director of the Zell Center for Risk Research; Clinical Associate Professor Of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management |
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| 9:15 – 10:15am | Morning Keynote Alex Counts, President and CEO, Grameen Foundation |
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| 10:15 – 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:45am | Breakout Session I | |
| Public Policy and Regulations Covering MFIs Globally and CDFIs in the United States | ||
| Measuring the Impact of Microfinace: Are We Progressing Towards the Millennium Development Goals? | ||
| 11:45 – 1:15pm | Lunch and Learn: How Students Across Campuses Are Engaging in Microfinance | |
| University of Chicago Microfinance Initiative (11:55pm to 12:15pm) | ||
| UCLA Anderson School of Management (12:20pm to 12:40pm) | ||
| Northwestern LEND (12:45pm to 1:05pm) | ||
| 1:15 – 2:30pm | Breakout Session II | |
| New Markets and New Products: The Expanding Landscape of Microfinance | ||
| Funding Microfinance: Financing the Financiers | ||
| 2:30 – 2:45pm | Break | |
| 2:45 – 4:00pm | Afternoon Session | |
| The Next Goal of Microfinance: Promoting Entrepreneurship | ||
| 4:00 – 4:15pm | Break | |
| 4:15 – 5:15pm | Afternoon Keynote: Ethics of Microfinance Asad Mahmood, Manging Director of Global Social Investment Funds, Deutsche Bank |
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| 5:15 – 5:30pm | Closing Remarks Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh, Dean and Professor, Harris School of Public Policy |
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| 5:30 – 6:30pm | Cocktails Networking Event |
