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Japan Microfinance Symposium
Agenda

As of 04 July 2007

Thursday, 10 May 2007

Morning session
08:00 Registration
09:00 Welcome Remarks
Douglas Brooks, Acting Director, Research, Asian Development Bank Institute
09:05 Opening Remarks
Wakako Hironaka, Member of the House of Councillors, Japanese Diet
09:15 - 09:30 Keynote Speech: Modern Microfinance – Achievements and Challenges
Speaker: Haruhiko Kuroda, President, Asian Development Bank
09:30 - 9:45 Corporate, Government and NGO Cooperation: The Shape of Microfinance
Speaker: Jacques Attali, President, PlaNet Finance
09:45 - 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:45 The Microfinance Industry: Continuities and Changes
5 Speakers (15-20 minutes each)

Microfinance Industry: Some Changes and Continuities: Nimal Fernando, Principal Finance Specialist (Microfinance), ADB Microfinance by an MFI: Jeff Ferry, Operations Manager, MicroCred Holdings Microfinance by a Commercial Bank: Barry Maddams, Deputy CEO, Khan Bank, Mongolia Microfinance Innovation in Credit Unions: Ranjith Hettiarachchi, CEO, Association of Asian Confederation of Credit Unions Microfinance and Poverty: The Japanese Experiences: Professor Yoichi Izumida, Tokyo University
11:45 - 12:30 Q&A or panel discussion
Moderator: Sununtar Setboonsarng, Senior Research Fellow, ADB Institute
12:30 - 01:30 Lunch
Afternoon session
01:30 - 03:15 Commercial Microfinance: Achieving Sustainability and the “Double Bottom Line”
6 Speakers (15-20 minutes each)

Shakti: Changing Lives in Rural India: Vijay Sharma, Business Head , Project Shakti, Hindustan Lever, India Wireless Reach: Shawn Covell, Senior Director, International Government Affairs, Qualcomm, US Grameen Danone Foods Limited : A Unique Model of Social Business Enterprise: Md. Imamus Sultan, Managing Director, Grameen Danone Foods Limited, Bangladesh Microfranchising : The next step: Naoko Felder-Kuzu, Microfinace Investment & Microfinachising Consultant, NFK Consulting, Zurich Acumen Fund: David Lehr, Acumen Fund Fellow, Drishtee, India AIG: Brian Murray, Managing Director, Research, AIG, China
03:15 - 03:45 Q & A
Moderator: Makoto Sunagawa, Former Director of Private Sector Department, Inter-American Development Bank
03:45 - 04:00 Coffee Break
04:00 - 05:15 Panel Discussion: Microfinance and the Role of the Public Sector
Opening Remarks (2 speakers, 10 minutes each)

Microfinance at IFC : Hiroshi Arichi, Director, Tokyo Office, International Finance Corporation Nobuaki Usui, Governor, National Life Finance Corporation

Moderator: Kimio Fujita, former president, JICA, and Chairman, Foundation for Advanced Studies in International Development
Participants:
Donor’s Role in Assisting Microfinance: JBIC’s Experience in South Asia: Kazushi Hashimoto, Director General, Sector Strategy Development Dept, JBIC Aiichiro Yamamoto, Senior Advisor to Director-General, Africa Department, JICA
Professor Mitsuhiro Maeda, Director for Trade Finance, METI
Shigeki Kimura, Director, Development Institutions Division, International Bureau, MOF, Japan
Taro Morita, Director, Int’l Cooperation Office, National Life Finance Corp.
Nimal Fernando, Principal Finance Specialist (Microfinance), Asian Development Bank
05:15 - 05:45 Q & A
Moderator: Kimio Fujita, former president, JICA, and Chairman, Foundation for Advanced Studies in International Development
05:45 - 06:00 Closing Remarks- Government, Corporate and NGO partnerships in ODA
Jacques Attali, President, PlaNet Finance
06:00 Program ends
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