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Ms. Sadaffe AbidChief Operating Officer Kashf Foundation
Ms. Abid has been with Kashf since 1997. She has a proven management track record and over 9 years of experience taking forward the organization. Ms. Abid helped grow Kashf from a start-up phase to a globally reputable microfinance institution. She has successfully managed the inclining growth combined with a focus on business innovation and product development. She has a bachelors in economics and international relations from Mount Holyoke College, U.S.A.
Dr. Fakhruddin AhmedManaging Director Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF)
Dr. Ahmed served as Governor of Bangladesh Bank (Central bank of Bangladesh) for three and a half years before he took over as Managing Director, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF). PKSF is the largest apex fund for microcredit in the world, currently providing financial and institution building assistance to more than 200 microfinance institutions. While he was Governor of Bangladesh Bank, he chaired a Government appointed committee to recommend a regulatory framework and a draft law to set up an independent regulatory agency for microcredit. As Governor, Dr. Ahmed is also credited with introducing wide-ranging reform measured for the financial sector of Bangladesh. Dr. Ahmed worked for over 20 years with the World Bank, finally retiring as a Country Director. His work in the World Bank included both macroeconomic work and work on microfinance programs. Dr Ahmed has a Ph.D in Economics from the Princeton University.
Dr. Salehuddin AhmedGovernor Bangladesh Bank (Central Bank)
Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed was appointed Governor of Bangladesh Bank (Central Bank) in May 2005. Prior to his appointment Dr. Ahmed was Managing Director of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), the apex funding agency of microcredit operations in Bangladesh. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from McMaster University, Canada in 1978. He started his career as a teacher in Economics at Dhaka University and then joined the civil service of the government in the erstwhile Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) cadre. He served in various capacities in field of administration in the Government of Bangladesh. He worked at the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), a regional inter-governmental organizations with headquarters in Dhaka. He was the Director General of Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD), Comilla and also Director General of the NGO Affairs Bureau of the Office of the Prime Minister. He has authored more than 60 books, reports and journal articles which have been published at home and abroad. He is on advisory bodies of several government and non-government agencies in Bangladesh. He has extensively traveled in many countries of the world.
Dr. Rajeev AhujaHealth Finance Specialist World Bank
Rajeev Ahuja recently joined the World Bank office in Delhi as Health Finance Specialist. Prior to this, he was a senior research fellow at a Delhi-based research institute called Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), Delhi. Dr. Ahuja is a Ph.D. in development economics from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. Prior to it, he did his Masters, also in economics, from Delhi School of Economics. He has been working on selected social security issues. His recent work has been on micro insurance or insurance for the low-income people. He has published in national and international journals, and has also participated in several international conferences. He was a recipient of a scholarship offered jointly by the Global Development Network and the IMF in 2004.
Mr. Chatchaval JiaravanonPresident & CEO Telecom Holding Co.
Chatchaval Jiaravanon is President & CEO of Telecom Holding Co., Ltd. an investment company operating both locally and internationally in the telecommunication industry. He is a member of Board of Directors of True Corporation Public Company Limited, one of the largest companies listed on Stock Exchange of Thailand. Mr. Jiaravanon also serves for the government sector as a director of the Government Savings Bank.
Ms. Christina BarrineauTechnical Consultant UN Year of Microcredit
Christina Barrineau is the Chief Technical Advisor for the UN International Year of Microcredit 2005. Her efforts focus on bringing attention to the importance of financial systems in achieving the millennium development goals. Christina is responsible for coordinating the activities of country teams of central bankers, universities, government officials, and private and public sector bankers; as well as organizing an international awareness campaign. Prior to the UN, Christina spent five years with Women’s World Banking where she established and managed a global network for banking innovation in MF that spanned 22 financial institutions that collectively served more than 14 million poor and low-income clients. While with WWB, she worked with institutions such as Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and Banco Santander, as well as with national and microfinance banks. Christina has established microfinance programs for financial institutions around the world. Before joining WWB, she spent ten years as an independent international advisor in the field of financial systems development. Christina holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
Mr. Robert BinyonChairman Aureos Capital
Robert Binyon was born in 1951 and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1972. He joined Morgan Grenfell in 1972 and was responsible for the Group’s operations in Switzerland in 1977-8 and 1981- 4 and from 1986-91 for regional operations in Asia based in Tokyo. He was joint Chief Executive and Managing Director of Tokai Bank Europe from 1991 to 1994. He joined CDC, then the Commonwealth Development Corporation, as Managing Director responsible for the regional and private equity funds that CDC established operates. He relocated to South East Asia, with responsibility for the Asia Pacific Region in October 2000. He is now a consultant to CDC and a Chairman of Aureos Advisers Limited responsible for South East Asia.
Ms. Magdella ChotoosinghInternal Audit Division of the Office of Internal Oversight Services United Nations
Magdella Chotoosingh’s responsibilities at the Internal Audit Division of the Office of Internal Oversight Service include: preparation of risk audit programs for field and headquarters clients, including The Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Department of Public Information, and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund; Using the risk-based approach to audits by identifying critical risk exposures and measuring the likelihood and impact of their materialization; and evaluating systems of internal controls to ensure compliance with policies and procedures, accomplishment of program objectives, economic use of resources and safeguarding of UN assets.
Mr. Tom EastonSenior Correspondent The Economist magazine
Tom Easton joined the Economist in 2000 in New York as a senior correspondent, became New York Bureau Chief is 2003 and is now the chief financial correspondent in America and the primary writer on microfinance. Previously he has been New York and Tokyo Bureau Chief and Associate Editor for the Baltimore Sun, followed by Senior Editor of Forbes Magazine. He also was an associate professor at Columbia Journalism School. This month in the Economist, Tom published a major global survey of microfinance.
Mr. Gul KhatabManaging Director Infinity Microfinance
Gul has been working in the financial service and banking industry within information technology for over 10 years. As a chief network architect at HSBC, Gul successfully completed the network integration for the Company’s recent acquisitions: Republic Bank, Bital Mexico, Household International and the Bank of Bermuda. Prior to HSBC, Gul worked as lead architect at TD Waterhouse. He also played a key role as network architect while working for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. As a consultant to Merrill Lynch Assets Management he rebuilt the Company’s data center, tested, recommended, designed and implemented cutting edge network technology. Gul has had exposure to a wide range of technical innovations such as local and global load balancing for the content delivery, voice-over-IP, VPN and other technological advances. Gul’s technical expertise is in E-commerce, data center management, network design and security. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Herbert H. Lehman College and a B.E. in Electronics (first division) from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi
Mr. Haruhiko KurodaPresident Asian Development Bank
Haruhiko Kuroda is the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Chairperson of ADB’s Board of Directors. Before joining ADB, Mr. Kuroda was Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and a professor at the graduate school of economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. During his terms at Japan’s Ministry of Finance as Director-General of the International Bureau and as Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs between 1997 and 2003, Mr. Kuroda helped design and implement the US$30 billion Miyazawa Initiative – Japan’s response to Asian economies hit by the 1997-1998 financial crisis. Mr. Kuroda holds a BA in Law from the University of Tokyo and a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Mr. J. Peter MorrowCEO Khan Bank of Mongolia
J. Peter Morrow is a banker and financial consultant with 35 years experience in the U. S. and developing countries. He has served as Chief Executive Officer of Khan Bank since 2000. Initially he led a World Bank/USAID project team to turn around this troubled state-owned bank. After privatization in 2003 his contract was extended by the private shareholders to 2007. He has served as CEO of two banks and an executive officer of two others, and also has substantial experience both in the U.S. and in ex-socialist countries in insolvency and reorganization. He is a graduate of Harvard College. In addition to his duties at the Bank, Mr. Morrow serves as Vice Chair, North America-Mongolia Business Council; Vice Chair, Arts Council of Mongolia; Board Member, Mongolian Bankers Association; and Policy Board Member, Ministry of Industry and Trade. In 2005 the President of Mongolia presented him the Friendship Medal, the highest award given to foreign citizens, for contribution to Mongolia’s development.
Mr. Stephen PeacheySenior Policy Consultant World Savings Bank Institute
As a consultant to the World Savings Bank institute, Stephen Peachey has contributed two papers on access to finance. Steve is Senior Economist with and affiliated with Total Concept Consultancy Ltd. He is the author, with Alan Roe, of a new study, “Access to Finance, Measuring the Contribution of Savings Banks.”
Mr. Stuart RutherfordFounder SafeSave
Stuart Rutherford, originally from London where he trained as an art historian and later as an architect, has been a microfinance practitioner, researcher, writer, and teacher for twenty-five years. His main interest is in understanding how poor people manage their money, hence the title of his best-known work, The Poor and Their Money. He has taught at the Boulder Colorado Microfinance Training Course and the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) at the University of Manchester, U.K., where he is a Senior Visiting Fellow. He has lived in Latin America and Africa and, for many years, in Bangladesh, where he was a member of the board of ASA, a microfinance institution that pioneered low-cost mass delivery of microloans, and where he founded SafeSave, an MFI that seeks to provide highly flexible basic financial services to very poor slum dwellers (www.safesave.org). He has carried out many research and consultancy assignments for MFIs and donors, and is currently researching how clients and fieldworkers in Bangladesh are responding to "Grameen Bank II" – Grameen's recent major reworking of its products. He now lives in Japan.
Mr. Nay Sok SamnangMember of the Executive Committee ACLEDA Bank
Mr. Nay Sok Samnang is a Member of the Executive Committee and Manager of the Branch Administration Department for ACLEDA Bank in Cambodia. ACLEDA Bank’s Mission is to provide micro, small and medium entrepreneurs with the wherewithal to manage their financial resources efficiently and by doing so to improve the quality of their lives while ensuring a sustainable and growing benefit to our shareholders, our staff and the community at large.
Mr. Eamon ScullinManaging Director Fern Computer Services Ltd.
Eamon Scullin is Managing Director of Fern Computer Services Ltd., which specializes in micro finance banking software for savings and loans. Currently Fern has over 200 credit union and microfinance customers in over 20 countries including S Africa, Ireland, UK, Hong Kong, Philippines, Caribbean, Belize, PNG, Fiji. Prior to founding Fern in 1979, Eamon worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in auditing and with General Electric in the USA as Financial Controller.
Mr. Mark SpradleyManaging Director Mazao Partners
Mark Spradley serves as Executive Vice President of Mazao Capital LLC, a private equity firm. He is responsible for the firm's strategic growth, including generating capital commitments and meeting investment objectives. Mr. Spradley also serves as Managing Director of Mazao Partners, the firm’s micro-loan securitization project. Prior to joining Mazao Capital, Mr. Spradley was an Account Vice President with UBS, where he helped individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations develop asset allocation strategies and select investments. Spradley is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC
H. E. Mr. Carlos M. VelascoAmbassador Republic of Peru
H.E. Mr. Carlos M. Velasco is the Ambassador of Peru to Thailand. He joined his nation’s diplomatic service in 1974. Among his many previous positions and posts, he was recently Consul General of Peru in Denver, Colorado and New York, Deputy Permanent Delegate to UNESCO in Paris, and Undersecretary for Peruvian Communities Abroad at the Ministry of External Relations of Peru.
Dr. Du XiaoshanDeputy Director China Poverty Research Center, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Professor Du is Research Fellow, Professor & Deputy Director of Rural Development Institute (RDI), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), P. R. China. He is also Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors and original Executive Director of Funding the Poor Cooperative (FPC) a micro-credit pilot project with 11-year history, and about 15,000 members in Henan and Hebei provinces, which has already reached operating self-sufficiency at the county level.
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