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Past events at the club

Here is a list of the events at the club in 2009-10

08.06.10 
Making Microfinance Banks work in Nigeria
Dr David Wright, DfID special adviser

 

13.05.2010
Creating Pathways for the Poorest: 
Professor Syed Hashemi, Exec Director BRAC Development Instititute
15.04.2010
Fonkoze: Tackling extreme poverty amidst Haiti's challenges
Anton Simonowitz and Karishma Huda Farooq

 

31.03.2010
Lowering Costs and Achieving Scale: the experience of ASA Bangladesh
Shafiqual Choudhury, Founder and Present of ASA Bangladesh

 

17.03.2010
Microinsurance for Health and Agriculture
Aaron Oxley, director of RESULTS, and Richard Leftly, CEO of Microensure
hosted by Morgan Stanley 

 

10.03.2010
Policy Approaches for Mobile Money.  CGAP, AFI and DfID panel
sponsored by CGAP at GSMA.

 

8.02.2010 Microfinance is Dead; Long Live Microfinance

A reflection by Dr Susan Johnson on her paper published under that title
http://www.bath.ac.uk/soc-pol/people/sjohnson.html
In association with Greenwich University.

 

 

18.01.2010 Slum Finance is not Sub-prime 

Speakers: Larry English of Homeless International
In association with Five Talents.

 

30.11.2009
Banana Skins Report 2009. 
Speakers: David Lascelles and Philip Brown.
In association with Citi Microfinance and Clifford Chance.
http://www.citibank.com/citi/microfinance/data/news090703a1.pdf

3.11.09   Microfinance in the UK: it's there if you look. 

Speaker Faisal Rahman 
In collaboration with Barclays Bank 

 

27.10.09           
Savings-led Microfinance: Stories from Southern Sudan
Speakers: Tom Sanderson, Five Talents and Thomas Anei,  Lietnhom Village Savings & Loan Association, S.Sudan
In collaboration with KPMG 

8.10.09            

China: the development of green microfinance projects 
Speaker: Daniel Foa, 51Give
In collaboration with Goodenough College
29.09.09           
Microfinance in High Mountainous and Rural Eastern Tajikistan
Speaker: Sadrudin Akbarali, Aga Khan Agency for MicroFinance
In collaboration with Allen and Overy 
9.09.09            
Mobile Money for Microfinance Institutions: Can MFIs best use this technology to improve their services to unbanked people, and their own profitability? 
Speakers: Nick Hughes,  M-Pesa,  Paul Leishman: GSMA and Lukas Wellen, Musoni.
In collaboration with London Business School and GSMA 
22.07.09            
How the big rating agencies helped to destroy the big banks and
how MF rating agencies can avoid the same errors. 
Speaker: Sanjay Sinha, M-Cril
Hosted by the London School of Economics
9.07.09            
Microfinance for Bankers & Investors 
Speaker: Elisabeth Rhyne
In collaboration with Citibank 
1.06.09            
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
Speakers: Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, and Stuart Rutherford   
In collaboration with Citibank 
15.04.09           
Overview of Microfinance Investment Funds 
Speakers: Paul DiLeo and Prasad Viswanatha, Grassroots Capital Management
In collaboration with Clifford Chance 
12.03.09     
Panel Discussion: Regulating Branchless Banking for the Poor
– A Policy Perspective. 
Speakers Catherine Martin, Timothy R. Lyman, Marina Solin and Pia Bernadette Roman
In collaboration with Clifford Chance
4.02.2009         
Panel on Social Performance in Microfinance
Speakers: Anton Simanowitz Cécile Lapenu
In collaboration with European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP)