Speaker bios are included in the conference program – available for download by clicking here.


Kemal Ahmed, Founder & Portfolio Manager, Old Square Capital Advisors

Sarah Alexander, President & CEO, Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA)

Cate Ambrose, Executive Director, Latin American Venture Capital Association

Hany Assaad, Head of MENA Private Equity and Investment Funds, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Joaquin Avila, Managing Director, EMX Capital

Teresa C. Barger, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer/Chief Investment Office, Cartica Capital

Antonio Bonchristiano, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, GP Investments

Jerry Borrell, Editor in Chief, T&I

Loren Boston, Managing Director, C.P. Eaton

Jennifer Brooy, Vice President & Head of Equity, Export Development Canada

P. Desmond Brunton, Vice-President (Operations), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)

Kofi Bucknor, Managing Partner, Kingdom Zephyr Africa Management

G.Steven Burrill, Chief Executive Officer, Burill & Company

Michael Calvey, Co-Managing Partner, Baring Vostok Capital Partners

Joseph Carvin, Partner, Altima Partners LLP

Haydee Celaya, Private Equity & Investment Funds Director, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Sidney Chameh, Chairman, ABVCAP; Partner, DGF Investimentos

Jennifer Choi, Director of Research, EMPEA

Elizabeth A.E. Clarkson, Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Douglas Clayton, Managing Partner & CEO, Leopard Capital 

Diego Córdoba, CEO & Managing Director, Teka Capital

David Creighton, President & CEO, Cordiant Capital

Neil Crowder, Co-Founding Partner, Chayton Capital

Patricia M. Dinneen, Managing Director, Siguler Guff

Simeon Djankov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Bulgaria, Previous Chief Economist of the Finance and Private Sector Vice-Presidency of the World Bank 

Alisher Djumanov, Founder and CEO, Eurasia Capital Management

David Do, Managing Director, Vietnam Investments Group

Hurley Doddy, Co-CEO, Emerging Capital Partners

Monish Dutt, Chief Credit Officer, Global Financial Institutions & Private Equity Funds, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Okechukwu Enelamah, CEO, African Capital Alliance

Paul Fletcher, Senior Partner, Actis

Anne Fossemalle, Director - Equity Funds, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) 

Scott Foushee, Managing Director, PineBridge Investments

Laura Friedrich, Partner - Asset Management, Shearman & Sterling

Claudio Furtado, Professor, Fundação Getúlio Vargas 

Aaron Gershenberg, Managing Partner, SVB Capital

John Gnodde, CEO, Brait

Álvaro Gonçalves, Founding Partner & CEO, Stratus Group

Philip Groves, Founding Partner, DAC Management LLC

Safia Hachicha, Vice President, Investments, Swicorp

Luis A. Harvey, Senior Managing Director, Nexxus Capital

Janusz Heath, Managing Director, Capital Dynamics

Ahmed Heikal, Chairman & Founder, Citadel Capital S.A.E.

Jon Hilsenrath, Chief Economics Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

Ralph Jaeger, Consultant, Cambridge Associates

Nikunj Jinsi, CIO,  International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Vishal Kapur, Investment Director & Principal, Avigo Capital Partners

Michael Katsnelson, Director and Head of Moscow Representative Office, Quadriga Capital

Mu-Shin Kim, Investment Specialist, Asian Development Bank 

Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Former Chief Scientifc Adviser to the UK Government

William Knight, Special Advisor, Campbell Lutyens

Andrea F. Kramer, Managing Director, Hamilton Lane

Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Business Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Edan Lee, Managing Director, Olympus Capital Holdings Asia

Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman, Portland Private Equity

Roger Leeds, Chairman, Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA)

H. Jeffrey Leonard, President & Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner, Global Environment Fund

Hanjaya Limanto, Managing Partner, Aureos South-East Asia Fund, Aureos Advisers Ltd.

Omar Lodhi, Executive Director, Abraaj Capital

Marie-hélène Loison, Head of Private Equity, Proparco

Doug Lowenstein, President, Private Equity Council

Pinak Maitra, Group Chief Financial Officer, KIPCO Group 
 
Sipho Makhubela, Investment Director, Harith Fund Managers

Edward Mathias, Managing Director & Partner, The Carlyle Group

Christopher Mayo, Principal, Probitas Partners

James E. McGuigan, Private Equity Partner, Capital International Private Equity Funds (CIPEF)

Prakash H. Mehta, Partner, Co-Head Investment Funds and Private Equity Practices , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

Luis Miranda, President & CEO, IDFC Private Equity

Idris Mohammed, Partner, Development Partners International (DPI)

Marcelo Marques Moreira, CEO, TIBA Agro

Victor M. Muñoz, Managing Director, Denham Capital

Gordon Myers, Lead Counsel, International Finance Corporation

Peter O'Driscoll, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Nicholas Parker, Executive Chairman, Cleantech Group

Carlos Perry, COO,  EMPEA

Robert Petty, Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Clearwater Capital Partners

David Pierce, Chief Executive Officer, Squadron Capital

Henry Potter, Partner, Alpha Associates

Parham Pouladdej, Managing Partner, CRG Partners

Robert Pozen, Chairman, MFS Investment Management

Khalid Quadir, CEO, Brummer & Partners

Mark Ramsey, Executive Director and President, Macquarie Capital 

Patricio Gomez Sabaini, Managing Partner & Founder, Sur Capital Partners  

Jean Eric Salata, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Baring Private Equity Asia

Maninder Saluja, Co-Head, of Emerging Markets Private Equity, Quilvest Group

Joachim Schumacher, Head of the Equity and Mezzanine, DEG

Dominic Scriven, CEO, Dragon Capital Group

M.K. Sinha, President & CEO, IDFC Project Equity

Tom Speechley, Executive Director, Board Member, Abraaj Capital

Anthony Stalker, Partner, ADM Capital

Subbu Subramaniam, Managing Director, MCap Advisors

J. Scott Swensen, Chairman, Conduit Capital Partners, LLC

Nassim Taleb, Author of the NYT Bestseller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable; Distinguished Professor, New York University Polytechnic Institute; Principal at Universa Investments

Graham Thomas, Managing Director, Standard Bank Private Equity

Lars Thunnell, Executive Vice President, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Mara Topping, Partner, White & Case LLP

Konstantin Torgov, Operation Leader, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Hubertus van der Vaart, Chairman, Small Enterprise Assistance Funds

Sanju Vaswani, Managing Partner, Verny Capital

Sivendran Vettivetpillai, Chief Executive Officer, Aureos Capital

Pote Videt, Managing Director, Lombard Investments

Ashok Wadhwa, CEO & Managing Director, Ambit Corporate Finance Private Limited

Simon Walker, CEO, The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA)

Eduardo Wallentin, Manager of Strategy & Coordination, Latin America & Caribbean, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Christian Warnholtz, Partner, WAMEX Fondo MIF

Christopher Witkowsky, Editor, PEI

Lucian Wu, Managing Director, Paul Capital Partners

Memet Yazici, Head of Asset Management, RHEA Investments  

Xiaoyang Yu, Founding Partner, China New Enterprise Investment (CNEI)

John H. Zhao, CEO, Hony Capital

Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank Group