Microfinance Conference

Thursday , November 18th at 7:00 pm

"Meet the Speakers" Dinner in the Wells Fargo Room, Cheit Hall, Haas School of Business

Friday, November 19th from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Conference in the Lipman Room of Barrows Hall (tentative agenda follows)

8:00 Registration, continental breakfast

8:30 Tom Campbell, Dean, Haas School of Business - opening remarks

8:45 A. W. "Tom" Clausen, former BankAmerica CEO and former president of the World Bank - Introductions

9:00 Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh VIDEO

10:30 Break

10:45 John Hatch, Founder of the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA) VIDEO

12:00 Lunch

13:00 The Financing of Microfinance VIDEO

Moderator: James, A. Wilcox, Kruttschnitt Family Professor of Financial Institutions, Haas School of Business, U. C. Berkeley

• Janet McKinley, former senior vice president and portfolio manager at Capital Research & Management Company, current member of Grameen Foundation USA's program committee, Co-Chair, Oxfam America


• Jonathan C . Lewis, chair and CEO of MicroCredit Enterprises, Inc.


• Kylie Charlton, Vice President, Capital Markets,Unitus, Global Microfinance Accelerator.

14:30 Break

14:45 The Efficacy, Sustainability and Scalability of Microfinance VIDEO

Moderator: Sebastian Teunissen, Executive Director, Clausen Center for International Business and Policy and Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business, U. C. Berkeley

• Sean Kline, Senior Technical Advisor, Freedom From Hunger



• Leslie Barcus is the President of the Microfinance Management Institute


• Barbara Weber, Grameen Foundation, USA


• Foster Gonsalves, Projects Coordinator for the Berkeley Chapter of ASHA for Education


• Kate Cochran, Vice President, Resource Development, Unitus, Global Microfinance Accelerator.

16:15 Final Remarks, Sebastian Teunissen

16:30 Adjourn