Frankfurt Forum on Development Finance 2008

Responsible Finance
a Joint Initiative by KfW and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
21 – 22 February 2008
 

 

Agenda

20-22 February 2008
Premises of Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Wednesday, 20 February, 2008
19:30   Pre-Conference Dinner for Key Speakers and Sponsors
     
Thursday, 21 February, 2008
08:30   Registration and Coffee
09:30   Welcome and Introduction
   

Ingrid Matthäus-Maier
Spokeswoman of the Board of Managing Directors, KfW Bankengruppe

Prof. Dr. h.c. Klaus-Peter Müller
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Commerzbank
Chairman of Supervisory Board, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

10:00   Introduction
   

Haja Nirina Razafinjatovo
Minister of Finance & Budget, Madagascar

10:05   Break
10:15   Opening Speech “Why Do We Care about Responsible Finance?”
   

Michael Chu
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

10:45   Coffee
11:15   Opening Panel
    Searching for an Equilibrium: Development Impact vs. Profit Orientation, Client Interest vs. Investor Interests
Moderator: Stephen Timewell
  Editor-in-Chief, The Banker
Wolfgang Kroh, Member of the Board of Managing Directors, KfW
Prof. Dr. Udo Steffens, President and Chairman of the Board, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Prof. Dr. Norbert Walter, Chef Economist and Head of Deutsche Bank Research, Deutsche Bank Gruppe
Ganhuyag Ch. Hutagt, CEO, XacBank (Mongolia)
Pilar Ramirez, General Manager of LOCFUND, the Local Currency Microfinance Fund for Latin America and The Caribbean

12:45   Lunch
14:15 - 16:15   Parallel Workshops Round I
Pillar I   Delivering Products Responsibly
    Financial Services: From Responsible Lending to Hard-Sell
(Session 1)
Moderator: Doris Köhn
  Senior Vice President, KfW
Dr. Claus Peter Zeitinger, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ProCredit Holding
Gert van Maanen, Chair, Microfinance Centre for Central & Eastern Europe and the New Independent States
Faisel Rahman, Managing Director, Fair Finance (UK)
Prof. Dr. Dieter Steinbauer, Chairman of the Board, SCHUFA (Society for the protection of general credit security, Germany)
Elvin Guri, Chairman of the Management Board, JetFinance International (Bulgaria)

Pillar II   Mobilising Capital Responsibly
    Social Ratings and Social Reporting: Added Value or Extra Burden?
(Session 2)
Moderator: Hanns-Martin Hagen
  Principal Financial Sector Economist, KfW
David E. Harris, Manager Responsible Investment, FTSE Group (UK)
Fabio Malanchini, Executive Co-Director, MicroFinanza Rating (Italy)
Hermann-Josef Tenhagen, Chief Editor, Finanztest (Germany)
Edda Schröder, CEO, Invest in Visions (Germany)
Holger Rothenbusch, Senior Vice President, Head of Structured Finance II, DEG

Pillar III   Creating Responsible Financial Systems
    Responsible Client Relationship Management: How to treat Clients Responsibly?
(Session 3)
Moderator: Peer Stein
  Head Financial Infrastructure & Institution Building, IFC
BL Parthasarathy, Managing Director, BASIX Holding (India)
Gabriel Pieter Davel, CEO, National Credit Regulator South Africa
Paul Waithaka Gitahi, Senior Business Relation Manager, Equity Bank (Kenya)
Frank-Christian Pauli, Programme Officer, Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (Federation of German Consumer Organisations)
Dr. Andrew Pospielovsky, General Manager, Micro Finance Bank of Azerbaijan
Michal Matul, Financial Education Program Manager, Microfinance Centre for Central & Eastern Europe and the New Independent States

16:15 - 16:45   Coffee and Refreshments
17:00   Guided Walking Tours of Frankfurt
20:00   Dinner
     
Friday, 22 February, 2008
09:00   Coffee
10:00 -12:00   Parallel Workshops Round II
Pillar I   Delivering Products Responsibly
    Responsible Housing Lending: Bricks for the Bucks
(Session 4)
Moderator: Dr. Friedemann Roy
  Program Manager, Housing Finance, IFC
Douglas G. Duncan, Senior Vice President/Chief Economist, Mortgage Bankers Associations (USA)
Sven-Torsten Kain, Member of the Board, BRE Mortgage Bank (Poland)
Renu S. Karnad, Joint Managing Director, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC, India)
Kecia Rust, Theme Champion Housing Finance, FinMark Trust (South Africa)

Pillar II   Mobilising Capital Responsibly
    Commercial Investors and Public Investors: Complementing or Crowding Out?
(Session 5)
Moderator: Elizabeth Littlefield
  CEO, CGAP
Scott J. Budde, Managing Director, Global Social & Community Investing, TIAA-CREF (USA)
Ganhuyag Ch. Hutagt, CEO, XACBank (Mongolia)
Beatriz Morant Zacares, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarollo (AECID, Spain)
Klaus Maurer, Chief Investment Officer, European Fund for Southeast Europe
Robert Annibale, Global Director for Microfinance, Citigroup

Pillar III   Creating Responsible Financial Systems
    Responsible Leadership: How to Manage Financial Institutions Responsibly?
(Session 6)
Moderator: Martin Holtmann
  Head, Microfinance Global Financial Markets Department, IFC
Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip, Managing Director, Card Bank (Philippines)
Kate McKee, Senior Advisor, CGAP
Peter Woicke, Chairman, Save the Children International Alliance
Anton G. van Elteren, Senior Environmental Specialist, FMO
Elizabeth Rhyne, Senior Vice President, ACCION international

12:00   Lunch
13:30 -15:30   Parallel Workshops Round III
Pillar I   Delivering Products Responsibly
    Responsible Finance and the Environment: Greening the Financial Sector
(Session 7)
Moderator: Sylvia Wisniwski
  Head of International Advisory Services, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Clifford Aron, Principal, GreenMax Capital Advisors (Poland/Netherlands)
Ladislav Dvorak, Director, Ceska Sporitelna AS (Czech Republic)
Gerrit-Jan Brunink, Senior Investment Officer, Triodos Investment Management B.V.
Uwe Ohls, Senior Vice President, KfW
Kirsty Hamilton, Assoc Fellow, RE Finance-Policy Project, Chatham House (UK)

Pillar II   Mobilising Capital Responsibly
    Developing Local Financial Markets: Fiction or Reality?
(Session 8)
Moderator: Roland Siller
  First Vice President for Europe and Caucasus, KfW
Javier Fernández Cueto, Strategy Director, Compartamos (Mexico)
Jim Turnbull, CEO of Triarii Advisors (Hong Kong)
Konrad Ellsässer, Director, FIDES
Fernando Lucano Urioste, Managing Director, Cyrano Management (Peru)

Pillar III   Creating Responsible Financial Systems
    Responsible Policy-makers: Ensuring Financial Sector Stability and Building Inclusive Financial Systems
(Session 9)
Moderator: Jyrki Koskelo
  Vice President, Africa, Global Financial Markets, and Funds, IFC
Radovan Jelasic, Governor, National Bank of Serbia
Jörg Asmussen, Director General - Financial Market Policy, German Federal Ministry of Finance
Christina Barrineau, Managing Director, Financial Access Initiative (USA)
Peter Hayward, Former Secretary General, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

15:30 - 16:00   Lunch
16:00 - 17:30   Plenum Panel and Concluding Remarks
   

"Finding the Equilibrium: Solutions to Satisfy Stakeholders"
Moderator: Stephen Timewell
  Editor-in-Chief, The Banker
Radovan Jelasic, Governor, National Bank of Serbia
Doris Köhn, Senior Vice President, KfW
Jyrki Koskelo, Vice President, Africa, Global Financial Markets, and Funds, IFC
Elizabeth Littlefield, CEO, CGAP
Edda Schröder, CEO, Invest in Visions (Germany)
Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

17:30   Cocktail Reception

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