11:15 - 13:00

Nicole Boyer (France)
Managing Director - Adaptive Edge

Geoff Davis (United States of America)
President & CEO - Unitus

With an estimated shortfall in capital running into the tens of billions of dollars what is the opportunity for social responsible investment in microfinance?
Why it is important that commercial capital be mobilized to fill the supply-demand gap, How to create a blended value return from investments in microfinance both in debt and equity.

Niveen Abboushi-Sharaf (Jordan)
Managing Director - Microserv

Double Bottom Line: Poverty Alleviation or Realized Profits?

Rosalind Copisarow (United States of America)
Senior Vice President Of International Operations - Accion International

Investment Opportunities in Microfinance

What are the microfinance investment opportunities available at the moment? What is the expected return and what are the risks associated with each? Where do we see this mix moving? How many of these current opportunities provide strictly social return, and which are likely to - or already do - provide financial return as well? What is the right mix of funding instruments that can attract potential investors to microfinance? And does that mix make sense for the microfinance institutions themselves?

Gil Crawford (United States of America)
General Manager - MicroVest Capital Management, LLC