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ISB Hyderabad Hosts a Unique Microfinance Conference Hyderabad, August 5, 2005: The Indian School of Business (ISB) is hosting a unique conference - "Microfinance: The Way Ahead" - on August 6, 2005, at the ISB campus in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. The conference is organised by the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the ISB, and focuses on the future directions of microfinance in India and the rest of the world. The conference is of special importance for academicians, microfinance institutions, other financial institutions, and policy-makers interested in microfinance issues, particularly in light of the United Nations declaring 2005 as the "International Year of Microcredit". "The calibre of a top-class B-school is judged by its academic excellence and the quality of intellectuals it attracts," says M. Rammohan Rao, Dean, ISB. "The Microfinance Conference is in keeping with this perspective as it establishes the ISB as a thought leader in management education and research." A unique feature of the Conference is that it has the potential to impact millions of poor people the world over, by addressing very important issues in designing microfinance contracts. The Conference is of special importance for it has panelists who are leaders in policy making (Rajya Sabha, RBI, NABARD, SBI), practitioners (NGOs, NBFCs) multilateral institutions (World Bank), commercial banks (domestic and foreign) and academicians (from leading universities in USA and India - MIT, UCLA, Harvard and the ISB) to discuss future directions of microfinance in India and abroad. It brings together on a single platform the leaders in all the microfinance constituencies. Prof. Sankar De, Executive Director, CAF, ISB, says, "The Microfinance Conference is of special relevance to a wide cross-section of the Indian population and institutions. Microfinance is an all-encompassing business as it involves the biggest of the commercial banks, highly acclaimed academicians at renowned universities, and the poorest people in remote villages." The Conference features many important speakers. Among these are the Governor of RBI, Y. V. Reddy, speaking on "The regulation of microfinance institutions", and A. K. Purwar, Chairman SBI, delivering the keynote address on "Microfinance: Co-creating Wealth". The three sessions of the Conference focus on crucial microfinance issues and have panelists comprising eminent academicians, policy makers and researchers from India and abroad. Contributed by - |
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