New Challenges in Microfinance: Seventh Annual Conference in Leadership & Ethics, March 5
The seventh annual conference organized by the Citi Leadership & Ethics Program and NYU Stern’s Business and Society Program Area – with generous support from the Citi Foundation – will bring together academics, practitioners, and selected students to explore market-based solutions to some of the world’s most intractable social problems. This year’s Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, will keynote the 2010 conference, sharing her insights on microfinance and the role of women entrepreneurs in improving emerging economies.
The conference will take place on Friday, March 5, 2010 at NYU Stern School of Business from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speakers include:
* Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO, Women’s World Banking
* Nejira Nalic, Executive Director, Mi Bospo in Bosnia
* Bob Annibale, Global Director of Microfinance, Citi
* Jonathan Morduch, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NYU
NOTE: Registration to this conference will automatically include registration to a talk by Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, sponsored by the NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship and Financial Access Initiative
Please register at: http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/administrative/rsvpMEL/
Space is limited!
The conference is free and includes breakfast and lunch.
To make your luncheon reservation and reserve your conference ticket, kindly RSVP before February 27, 2010. Click here for the agenda.
If you have any questions you may contact our conference administrator, Autherine Allison at aallison@stern.nyu.edu
View the Agenda: 7th_Annual_Conference_Agenda
