Friday 9th March 2018 – Day 1

8:00 – Registration & Refreshments
8:45 – Opening Remarks
Dr. Susan Liautaud – Founder & Managing Director, Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited (SLAL)

Dr. Susan Liautaud is Founder of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, an international ethics advisory firm. She is also Founder of The Ethics Incubator, a non-profit platform for debate on global ethics issues. She currently serves as Interim Chair of Council and Vice Chair of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Chair of the LSE’s Ethics Policy Committee. She is a Lecturer in Public Policy and Law at Stanford University on cutting-edge ethics. She serves on several nonprofit boards and advisory boards, including Care International, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres, Pasteur Institute, the UK government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, the UK government’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, and SAP’s AI Advisory Panel. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a JD from Columbia Law School, two BAs and a MA from Stanford University and a MA from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.

9:00 – Keynote Session: Outlook for Latin America
Renato Lulia Jacob – CEO, Itau BBA International plc
Renato Lulia is CEO of Itaú BBA International, based in London. Before taking on that role in January 2016, he was managing director in charge of corporate and investment banking for Itaú BBA in Northern Europe, Portugal and Asia. Prior to that, he led the expansion of the bank in Latin America and launched its operations in Argentina, where he then served as head of corporate banking and as a member of the executive committee. Before joining Itaú BBA in Brazil as a senior banker, Renato held various roles with financial institutions in the U.S. and Brazil. He studied civil engineering at the University of São Paulo and recently completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

9:45 – Panel Discussion: One Belt One Road Initiative
Dr. Yu Jie – Head of China Foresight, LSE Ideas
Dr Yu Jie is Head of China Foresight at LSE IDEAS and teaches at LSE. Her research focuses on the decision-making process of Chinese foreign policy as well as China's economic diplomacy. She appears regularly at major media outlets such as the BBC, the Financial Times, the Independent and the Washington Post, briefs both public institutions such as the European External Action Services(EEAs), Silk Road Fund in Beijing and the UK Cabinet Office on China’s foreign affairs as well as corporates such as Bloomberg and UBS. She served as an expert witness at House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Prior to LSE, she was a management consultant, specialised at Chinese investments in Europe and Chinese market entry strategies for European conglomerates at the London Office of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants,managing projects with EADS, Shanghai Automotive (SAIC),China General Nuclear Group(CGN).

Leon Zhang - Senior Director, Envision Energy
Leon Zhang has assumed executive roles in telecommunications sector and now chairs Envision Energy’s One Belt One Road(‘OBOR’) business globally. With a MSc degree in Posts and Telecommunications of Nanjing University and MBA from Fudan University, he has 15 years front line experience as the country head, regional director in emerging markets e.g. Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines and Bosnia etc. Leon has been helping bridge gaps for these emerging markets in digitalization, communications and clean energy supply by leveraging OBOR policy and government-to-government soft loan.

Vince Xie QianYi – Partner, Knights Genesis Group
Mr. Vincent Xie is Funding Partner and CEO of Knights Genesis. Mr. Xie has rich experience in alternative investment in domestic China and overseas. He has led and participated as core team member in many large-scale overseas investments for Chinese enterprises in North America, Middle East, Africa and Europe in real estate, infrastructure, energy and forestry. He is also a seasoned investor in big data and large consumption. He has been working with many Chinese enterprises such as China Development Bank, ICBC, Sinosure, China Railway Construction Corporation, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China National Building Material Company, Ping An, Shanghai Municpal Investment (Group) Corporation, etc. Mr. Xie is also a council member of CCG and a committee member of LSEEMF.

Robert Fenner - Partner, Taylor Wessing
Robert is a corporate lawyer specialising in M&A. He advises companies and private equity houses and will represent companies at all stages of their development whether they be large multinationals or younger growing businesses. He frequently acts for sellers of businesses on their exits as well as corporates and private equity houses implementing buy and build strategies. He acts for both domestic and international companies making acquisitions and is the partner who leads the China Group in the UK, helping many Chinese State Owned Enterprises and other large Chinese and South East Asian companies expand internationally. Robert regularly helps Asian buyers on the corporate aspects of real estate acquisitions. He also has many years of experience advising on IPOs and other listed company transactions on both the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and AiM.

Chair : James Kynge – Emerging Markets Editor, Financial Times; Bestselling Author
James Kynge is emerging markets editor. He writes about emerging markets and, in particular, China’s growing global footprint in business, finance and politics. He won the 2016 Wincott Foundation award for Financial Journalist of the Year. His prize-winning 2006 book, “China Shakes the World”, was a bestseller translated into 19 languages. Before returning to London in 2008, he spent 25 years reporting from Asia with postings in China, Japan, former Soviet Central Asia and Southeast Asia. He is chairman of FT Confidential Research, having founded “China Confidential”, a research company, in 2009.

10:55 – Refreshments
11:15 – Panel Discussion: Global Risk and Security
General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds “Nick” Houghton GCB CBE ADC Gen – Constable of the Tower of London; Former Chief of Defense Staff, British Armed Forces
General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds "Nick" Houghton GCB CBE ADC Gen and Constable of the Tower of London is the Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces. He served as Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, the Green Howards in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. After Regimental duty General Houghton commanded 39 Infantry Brigade in Belfast during the period which led to the Good Friday Agreement. He was the Director of Military Operations in the Ministry of Defence at the time of 9/11; at the outset of operations in Afghanistan; and during the foot and mouth crisis. Subsequently he was Chief of Staff of the ACE Rapid Reaction Corps from July 2002 to April 2004 and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) from May 2004 to October 2005. More recently General Houghton was the Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Force-Iraq from October 2005 until March 2006. He became Chief of Joint Operations (CJO) in April 2006 at the time of the commitment of UK Forces to southern Afghanistan and, subsequently, during the extraction of UK forces from southern Iraq. He was appointed both OBE and CBE for his time in command in Northern Ireland and awarded the US Legion of Merit for his service in Iraq. He was appointed KCB for his time as CJO. General Houghton became Vice Chief of the Defence Staff in May 2009. In June 2015, General Houghton also received an honorary Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT) award from the Deputy Minister for Defence of Malaysia. General Houghton graduated from St Peter's College, Oxford, having taken an in-Service Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History.

Dr Karin von Hippel – Director General, Royal United Services Institute: RUSI
Dr Karin von Hippel is the first woman and non-Briton to hold the position of the Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to joining RUSI, she served for nearly six years in the Bureau of Counterterrorism, and eventually as Chief of Staff to General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL. Further to this, she has served as a director for the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project in Washington DC and is a research fellow at King’s College London. She has also worked for the UN, the EU and has several publications to her name, on top of degrees from the LSE, University of Oxford and Yale.

Dr Pippa Malmgren – Special Assistant to the President of the United States ; Foreign policy analyst ; Founder, DRPM Group ; Co-Founder, H Robotics
Philippa "Pippa" Malmgren is an American policy analyst. She served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States, George W Bush, for Economic Policy on the National Economic Council and is a former member of the U.S. President's Working Group on Financial Markets. She is the founder of the DRPM Group and co-founder of H Robotics. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1991 where she was invited to speak at the Summer Commencement in 2013.

Chair : Raymond McKeeve – Founder, S4Si ; Senior Partner, Jones Day
Raymond McKeeve has extensive experience advising major private equity houses, sovereign wealth funds, and their investee companies as well as some of the leading alternative credit providers and lenders across all areas of corporate practice, including acquisitions, disposals, financings, and restructurings. Raymond's experience covers both the domestic U.K. and international markets including MENA and sub-Saharan Africa. Raymond is one of the earliest and youngest winners of The Lawyer "Hot 100 Award" and sat in a personal capacity on the MOD Defence Reform Unit chaired by Lord Levene. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Strategic and Security Institute at the University of Exeter.

12:15 – Panel Discussion: Central Banking and FX – Looking for a route in turbulent waters; Emerging markets challenges in the rate normalisation era
Stephen Jen - CEO and Co-CIO, Eurizon SLJ Capital
Stephen Jen is the CEO and Co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ Capital Ltd, formerly SLJ Macro Partners LLP. Previously, he worked as the Managing Director of Macroeconomics and Currencies at BlueGold Capital Management LLP from May 2009 to March 2011, in charge of managing the firm’s currency risks as well as its macro strategies. Mr. Jen was also the Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, and from October 1996 to April 2009, held various roles, including the Global Head of Currency Research. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Jen had spent four years as an economist with the IMF, covering economies in Eastern Europe and Asia. Mr. Jen earned a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine (Summa Cum Laude).

Steve Jacobs – Managing Partner, BTG Pactual
  Mr. Steve M. Jacobs is Managing Partner & Head of International Asset Management at BTG Pactual Europe LLP. He joined BTG Pactual in 2009 as a Partner. Prior to BTG Pactual, Mr. Jacobs spent ten years at UBS, latterly as Global Head of Infrastructure & Private Equity and board member of UBS Global Asset Management. Before that, he was Head of Strategy for UBS Group based in Zurich. Prior to UBS, he worked at Ernst & Young in London and Sydney, focusing on corporate finance & advisory for financial services companies across the world. Mr. Jacobs holds a BA Honours degree in Finance, Law & Accounting. He is also a qualified accountant, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Denise Simon – Managing Director, Lazard
Denise Simon is a Portfolio Manager/Analyst on Lazard’s Emerging Markets Debt team. She began working in the investment field in 1986 and has been investing in Emerging Market Debt for over twenty years. Prior to joining Lazard in 2010, Denise was with HSBC Asset Management (formerly Halbis) where she was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for three global emerging markets strategies. Prior to HSBC, she was a Partner and senior portfolio manager at The Atlantic Advisors (acquired by HSBC in 2005). Prior to this, Denise worked abroad from 1987-1998 in London and Germany, where she worked for major financial institutions trading global bonds and EM Debt. Denise has a BA in International Economics from George Washington University. Denise’s outside activities are focused on Mexico and music. She currently serves as chair of the board of the Mexican Cultural Institute and sits on the management board of the US-Mexican Chamber of Commerce. She is on the board of the Richard B. Fisher Center of the Performing Arts and is the chair of the board of the Bard Music Festival.

Janet Henry – Global Chief Economist, HSBC
Janet Henry was appointed as HSBC’s Global Chief Economist in August 2015. She was previously HSBC’s Chief European Economist and is a member of Handelsblatt’s Shadow ECB Council. Janet joined HSBC in 1996 in Hong Kong where she worked as an Asian economist in the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Asian crisis. From 1999 to 2007 she was a Global Economist during which time her original work on globalisation – including the global determinants of local inflation – was widely recognised. Janet’s career began at the Economist Intelligence Unit where she worked as an Asian economist in London and Hong Kong.

Edward Misrahi – CIO, Founding Partner of Ronit Capital
Spanish born and following a BA in Economics from Princeton University, Edward started his career in 1991 at Goldman Sachs as a financial analysis within the Investment Banking group. He was recruited to the Risk Arbitrage Group in 1994 as an Associate focusing on identifying opportunities in Latin America. Edward successfully built up the active proprietary trading activity in Latin America across the capital structure and later became Co-Head of the Firm-wide Latin American business, Chief of Staff of the Equities Division and a Member of Equities Risk Committee. Edward was made up to Partner in 2000. Edward left Goldman Sachs to Join Eton Park Capital as one of the founding partners in 2004. There he was responsible for public and private emerging market investments across a wide variety of securities, asset classes and geographies. Edward was a member of the firm Operating Committee (main body to assist Managing Partner Eric Mindich in management of the firm). He also Co-managed the investment staff in the European office and was a member of the Best Execution Committee and Operation Risk Committee.  Edward left Eton Park in 2013 to found Ronit Capital, an emerging markets oriented hedge fund. He is particularly active across various Jewish and Israeli charitable organisations and is a Chair of Bicom, Governors at Naima JPS and co- chair of Governors at Immanuel College.

Chair: Lyubov Pronina – EMEA Credit Reporter, Bloomberg News, Brussels
Lyubov Pronina, EMEA Credit reporter at Bloomberg News in Brussels. A graduate of Moscow State Linguistic University, Lyubov has had a 20-year career in journalism covering business, politics and markets. Before joining Bloomberg News in 2006, she worked as a business reporter at The Moscow Times in Russia. With Bloomberg she covered technology and aerospace in Moscow as well as worked as a Kremlin pool reporter, helped launch the Bloomberg Billionaires Index in London and wrote about emerging markets.

13:30 – Networking Lunch
14:30 – Keynote Session
Ricardo Tadeu – Africa CEO, AB-Inbev
Ricardo Tadeu is our Zone President Africa since October 2016. Ricardo is a Brazilian citizen. Ricardo received a Law Degree from the Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil and a Master of Law from Harvard Law School. He is also Six Sigma Black Belt certified. He joined Ambev in 1995 and has held various roles across the commercial area. He was appointed Business Unit President for our operations in Hispanic Latin America in 2005, and from 2008 to 2012, served as Business Unit President Brazil. He was appointed Zone President Mexico in 2013.

15:15 – Refreshments
15:45 – Workshop Session
Strand A : Blockchain in EM: This Revolution Will Be Tokenised

Chik Soon Nean – Advisor, QCP Capital
Chik is an Advisor at QCP Capital where he works with a team of talented software engineers and strategists to develop systematic trading strategies within the realm of digital assets. He is also involved in a series of blockchain initiatives, ranging from ICOs to established enterprise solutions, such as Sparrow Exchange and Ambrosus. He is active within the blockchain community, and is passionate about technologies within the currency, decentralised exchange and data privacy space. Previously he was at Ubisoft Mobile and Veni Technology Ltd, and is currently at Deloitte LLP where he focuses on building data-driven solutions that help companies make sustainable performance improvements. He is an LSE alumni and was part of the founding team of the Emerging Markets Forum.

Strand B : Oil and Gas
Alexandre Oliveira – Partner-Global Industry, Ernst and Young

16:35 – Workshop Session
Strand C : Water Security

Cate Lamb – Director of Water Security, CDP
Cate’s role involves working with key stakeholders to deliver significant changes in the corporate management of water. Cate has ten years of experience in the environmental and sustainable development fields and has a strong technical, scientific and project management background. Cate holds a BSc in Environmental Science from Lancaster University.

Strand D : Indonesia Market Insights
Nurul Ichwan – Director, Indonesia Investment Promotion Centre (IIPC), London
Nurul Ichwan joined with BKPM in 1998. He is responsible for promoting Indonesia as an investment destination to investors in European countries as well as facilitating them to invest in Indonesia. Before his current position, Nurul Ichwan was the Deputy Director for Investment Promotion Strategy Development and Deputy Director for Manufacture Industry Promotion. He was also the Director of the Indonesia Investment Promotion Centre in Singapore (2006-2010). He has about 17 years of experience in the field of investment, including Investment promotion, consultation, monitoring and evaluation and licensing.

17:30 – Refreshments
17:45 – Keynote Session: The Strategy of a Leading Technology Company in Emerging Markets
Dr. Horst J. Kayser – Corporate Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, Siemens AG
Horst J. Kayser is Chief Strategy Officer at Siemens since November 2013. In his capacity as head of Corporate Strategy, he is responsible for the development of strategy at Siemens and reports directly to the Member of the Managing Board Dr. Roland Busch. Horst J. Kayser began his career in 1989, at McKinsey & Company in Germany, Canada and the U.S.. In 1995, he moved to Siemens Inhouse Consulting. In 1998 he became Managing Partner at Siemens Managing Consulting. Afterwards he held management positions in various areas and countries, e.g. as CEO of Siemens Ltd. Seoul, South Korea. In 2008 Kayser became President and CEO of KUKA AG, in 2010 CEO of 3W Power S.A./AEG Power Solutions. He was a member of the supervisory board of Kendrion N.V., NL from 2009 - 2015. Dr. Kayser holds a degree as Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur (Electrical engineering / Business administration) from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany and a Master of Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He received his doctorate in business administration at the University of Mannheim.

18:45 – Networking Cocktail Reception

Saturday 10th March 2018 – Day 2

8:00 – Refreshments
8:45 – Opening Remarks: Myths and Dangers in Emerging Markets
Piroska Nagy Mohacsi – Programme Director in the Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) of LSE

Piroska is a macroeconomist and Programme Director of the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she is responsible for various global policy initiatives on financial resilience, growth and migration. She was Policy Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), overseeing strategic directions in Emerging Europe, Central Asia and North Africa as well as major policy initiatives. She was also responsible for the EBRD’s economic forecast and co-created and co-led the Vienna Initiative in 2008-15, a public-private crisis management and coordination platform in emerging Europe, and headed its Secretariat. Piroska worked in senior positions as economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) between 1986 and 2008 with surveillance, policy advice and program responsibilities in Europe, Africa and Asia. While on leave from the IMF, she was guest lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996/97 and Senior Adviser at Fitch Ratings in 2003/4. She has published extensively in the areas of financial stability, fiscal policy reform and structural transformation, and the rise of economic populism. She is the author of the book The Meltdown of the Russian State (Edgar Elgar, 2000).

9:00 – Keynote Session
Jorge Born – Former Deputy Chairman, BUNGE

Jorge Born is currently the President and CEO of Bomagra S.A. a privately held company focused in farming, grain production and cattle management. Until 2010, Mr Born served as Deputy Chairman of Bunge Limited, a NYSE quoted agribusiness company operating world-wide. He began his career in Bunge back in 1983 and he has over 30 years of experience in the Agricultural sector. Mr. Born has a BSc in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is a member of Wharton’s Latin American Board and a member of the Board of Governors of Wharton’s Lauder Institute. Mr. Born is also the President of the Fundación Bunge y Born, Argentina’s leading charitable institution.

9:45 – Panel Discussion: Healthcare – Anti Microbial Resistance: Its Future Challenges and Implications for Emerging Markets
Jennifer Cain – Head of Market Access, Roche

Jennifer Cain is Head of Market Access, Pricing, and Policy at Roche Europe from 2016. Jennifer was Market Access Manager at Novartis for Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) in 2013-2016 and Program Manager for European on Health Care System at World Health Organization in 1999-2005.

Richard Stabler – Associate Professor in Molecular Bacteriology, LSHTM
Richard is an Associate Professor in Molecular Bacteriology in the Pathogen and Molecular Biology Department. His has a background of using whole organism high throughput technologies to investigate the genetics behind virulence and molecular epidemiology. He has researched several important human pathogens where drug resistance is a vital component including Clostridium difficile and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. In addition, he has designed a self-learning pan-pathogen diagnostic microarray which could identify AMR genes and investigated alternatives to antibiotics. Richard’s current research projects are investigating antimicrobial resistance in two bacteria which are rapidly becoming untreatable due to the lack of effective antibiotics: Acinetobacter baumannii and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. He is currently using next-generation sequencing to investigate the population structure of A. baumannii and the genetics behind bacterial survival mechanisms during infection. For N. gonorrhoeae, he is investigating the role that other organisms play in the acquisition and development of resistance. As a Director of the Antimicrobial Resistance Centre, Richard wants to bring together all aspects of the Centre to form a coordinated approach to tackling AMR. The global links within the centre offer an excellent opportunity to develop tools to help those most at risk to AMR related burden.

Nicola Blackwood - Former Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health & Innovation
Nicola Claire Blackwood is a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon who was also Chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee during the Second Cameron ministry and as a junior health minister during the First May ministry. She was elected at the 2010 election with a majority of 176 defeating the Liberal Democrats who held the seat since 1997. She lost her seat in the 2017 election to the Liberal Democrats who won it back with a majority of 816.

Chair: Dr Stephen L. Roberts – LSE Fellow, Global Health Policy, Department of Health Policy, LSE
Dr Stephen L. Roberts is LSE Fellow in Global Health Policy. He is a module convenor on the MSc programme in Global Health and a member of the LSE Global Health Initiative. Dr Roberts is also an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Global Health Policy (CGHP) at the University of Sussex. Dr Roberts joined the Department of Health Policy in 2016. Prior to this appointment, he has held academic and research positions in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London (KCL), as well as the Department of International Relations and the Centre for Global Health Policy at the University of Sussex.

10:45 – Refreshments

11:00 – Panel Discussion: China’s Urbanization: Emerging Middle Class and Consumption Upgrade
Laura DeSwart, CRX, CLS, CSM - President, Greater China at Triple Five World Group Enterprises

Laura serves as President of Triple Five China. Triple Five Group owns the largest malls in North America namely West Edmonton Mall and Mall of America and is developing a second largest Mall in the US - American Dream in greater New York. Their first project in China - Mall of China is located in Chongqing and will open by 2020. A Chinese-American, Laura possesses a unique background and extensive experience in the retail real estate industry. For the past 20 years she has held various leadership roles with iconic real estate corporations including The Rouse Company, Steiner + Associates, CP Group, Simon Property Group, Ivanhoe Cambridge and mostly recently with Walmart Realty, a division of the world's largest retailer Walmart Stores Inc. Laura holds an MBA degree from Florida International University and Executive Development Program certificate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds the ICSC Certified Retail Property Executive (CRX), Certified Shopping Center Manager (CSM) and Certified Leasing Specialist (CLS) designations. She is a faculty member of ICSC’s John T. Riordan School for Retail Real Estate Professionals, and authored the book - Retailing in China (ISBN 1582680906, 9781582680903) - published by ICSC in 2009.

Vince Xie QianYi - Partner, Knights Genesis Group
Mr. Vincent Xie is Funding Partner and CEO of Knights Genesis. Mr. Xie has rich experience in alternative investment in domestic China and overseas. He has led and participated as core team member in many large-scale overseas investments for Chinese enterprises in North America, Middle East, Africa and Europe in real estate, infrastructure, energy and forestry. He is also a seasoned investor in big data and large consumption. He has been working with many Chinese enterprises such as China Development Bank, ICBC, Sinosure, China Railway Construction Corporation, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China National Building Material Company, Ping An, Shanghai Municpal Investment (Group) Corporation, etc. Mr. Xie is also a council member of CCG and a committee member of LSEEMF.

Kenneth Dingledine – President, Harmonia Holdings Ltd.
Kenneth Dingledine is the President of Harmonia, dedicated to promoting cross-cultural collaborations in live theatrical, artist management, arts education and philanthropic innovation between the East and the West. As one of the most respected executives in the Broadway industry, he has worked in the theatrical production and licensing world for over 20 years. Before joining Harmonia, Ken led major content supply and author representative companies including musical theatre specialist, Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW) as Senior Vice President, responsible for heading all of TRW's domestic and international operations. Prior to TRW, Ken was Vice President and Director of Operations for Samuel French Inc., the oldest and largest performing arts agent and licensing company in the world. Ken has developed shows for Broadway and regional theatres across the United States and redeveloped existing content for localized market distribution. He has worked in the UK marketplace with both West End and touring production companies distributing their productions to theatre organizations and presenters across the world. In his career, he has brought over 800 new works into the worldwide theatrical market place and exposed the work of over 500 artists and creators including such high-grossing musical titles as CHICAGO, GREASE, and the recent Broadway smash, ROCK OF AGES.  He also has published and promoted the work of legendary authors including Pulitzer Prize winners, Neil Simon, August Wilson and Thornton Wilder.

Chair: Will Zhao – Director Strategic Consulting, JLL Shanghai
Will is a Director with Jones Lang LaSalle's Shanghai Strategic Consulting Group. Strategic Consulting provides creative solutions in the areas of Development and Asset Strategy, Organizational Strategy, and Occupier and Investor Portfolio Strategy. Our clients include corporations, developers, investors, governments, and institutions such as port and airport authorities, development authorities and higher education establishments. Will has over 15 years of strategy and management consulting experience covering broad range of sectors including Real estate, Retail & FMCG, Healthcare and Financial sector. He has spent over 9 years in continent Europe prior to relocate back to Shanghai and has worked in U.S, UK, Continent Europe and Asia Pacific with various projects. A few representative UK based client projects lead by Will includes: Jaguar Land Rover's 14.7bln RMB investment and JV setup in China with Cherry Automotive Group in China, GSK market expansion and sourcing strategy in China, Mark Spencer operating model transformation in China, and Regetta on-line digital strategy in China. Prior to JLL, Will was a Director at Allergan Inc, focusing on China Medical Aesthetic Sector. He has also spent years at Starbucks on consumer insights/innovation and KPMG, Accenture on strategy and management consulting sector.

12:00 – Panel Discussion: Renewable Energy and Technologies
Tim Naylor – Senior Director, Envision Digital, EMEA

Tim Naylor is a veteran in advanced Information Management and Analytics sectors and heads Envision Energy’s Digital business in EMEA. He has an Honours degree in Information Science from Otago University, an MBA from London Business School and 20 years leadership experience with Oracle EMEA.  For the past 3 years Tim has been helping global energy companies create advantage from digitalisation, where advances in Energy IoT, cloud computing, big data and machine learning are dramatically reshaping the energy value chain and enabling significantly more effective asset and operations management.

Tim Whyte – Commodities Trader & Former Portfolio Manager, Brevan Howard
Tim Whyte is a Managing Director and Head of the Resource Investment Division of SAPINDA Group. Mr. Whyte started his career trading commodities in 1995 at Goldman Sachs in London before joining Enron in 1999 to trade energy. In 2003 he joined Sofaer Capital Global Research as a Senior Research Analyst and trader for the Sofaer Global Equity Hedge Fund. In 2005 Tim Whyte founded and ran the Sofaer Capital Natural Resources Fund with over 1bn US$ assets under management. In 2008 Tim joined Brevan Howard Asset Management, the largest Hedge fund firm in Europe. Mr. Whyte holds BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Mattia Romani – Managing Director, Economics, Policy and Governance at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Dr Mattia Romani is Managing Director for Economics, Policy and Governance at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is also Senior Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. Before joining the EBRD in 2014, he was the Deputy Director General and Chief Economist of the Global Green Growth Institute, an international organization based in South Korea created to support developing and emerging countries on their green growth plans. He was previously with McKinsey and Company, where he worked as a senior expert since 2009. He served as Lord Nicholas Stern’s deputy on the UN Secretary General High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance in 2010. Between 2007 and 2009, he worked as the lead economist on the Stern Review team in the UK Government. He was previously at Shell International working on long-term scenarios. Between 1999 and 2003 he worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, Abidjan and Antananarivo. He holds a doctorate (D.Phil.) in economics from the University of Oxford and a M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

Cyrille Arnould – Head of GEEREF Front Office Team
Cyrille joined the GEEREF Front Office in 2008. Previously, he was a Senior Officer at EIB's Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Department, where he oversaw the development of private equity and microfinance portfolios. Prior to joining the EIB in 2003, Cyrille was a Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation’s SME Department, which he joined after four years with IFC’s Financial Markets Group, Sub-Saharan Africa Department. He was previously IFC's Senior Investment Officer based in Russia. Before joining IFC, Cyrille worked in Russia for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, first as Investment Manager for Smolensk Regional Venture Fund and then as Principal Banker in Moscow. Cyrille holds a Diploma from the Political Science Institute and a Master's in Law, both from the University of Strasbourg, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bryan Train – Managing Partner at Chayton Capital LLP & CFO CleanBay Renewables LLC
Bryan A. Train has extensive international experience in sectors including renewable energy, capital markets, real estate development and strategic business transformation projects within industry. Bryan acts as the Chief of International Development for Globomass Limited, an Irish Renewable Energy Project Developer, Chief Financial Officer of CleanBay Renewables LLC, Globomass subsidiary in the United States and a Managing Partner of Chayton Capital LLP, a UK based Investment Advisor. Bryan was a co-founder & director of Asha Zuri Participacoes, which funded the development of 3,500 low income units (total project value US$ 140 million) in Sao Paulo & Minas Gerais within the Brazilian government’s “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” social housing program. Bryan holds an MSc in Logistics, Trade and Finance from the Cass Business School & is a graduate of the European Business School (now Regents University) where he studied International Business & German.

13:00 – Networking Lunch

14:00 – Panel Discussion: Private Equity in Africa
Karima Ola - Partner, Leapfrog Investments

Karima is a Partner focused on African investments. A deeply experienced operator and investor, she has significant experience working across the continent. Karima is widely recognised for her work shaping the investment landscape in Africa and was recently named one of “Africa’s women to watch” by Bloomberg. Previously, Karima was Chief Investment Officer and a member of the board at ADC African Development Corporation, where she initiated the company’s entry into Nigeria and ran a number of multimillion-dollar transactions. Prior to this, she was a Managing Partner at Chayton Capital LLP, where she led the creation of the company’s first Africa Agriculture fund. Earlier, Karima was Executive Director, Global Equities, at HSBC in a role that spanned the UK, Hong Kong and South Africa. Karima is a Member of UK Institute of Directors and holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a postgraduate diploma in Economics from the University of London. She sits on the Sustainability Co‎mmittee of Africa Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (AVCA). Karima speaks French and Yoruba and is learning Swahili.

Jean-Philippe Syed - Portfolio Manager, Development Partners International
JP joined DPI in 2016. His prior work experience combines investment banking at BNP Paribas and JPMorgan with management consulting at McKinsey & Company and The Boston Consulting Group. He has extensive experience leading M&A, strategy and transformational projects for government entities, major corporations and financial sponsors across both developed markets (North America, Europe) and emerging markets (Africa, Middle East, South East Asia). JP has worked and lived in 5 continents and visited over 100 countries. JP speaks 5 languages and graduated from Imperial College London with a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering. JP is a citizen of France, Canada and Bangladesh.

Ann Wyman – Director, AfricInvest
Ann is a Senior Officer at AfricInvest, responsible for client relations. An internationally recognized economic and geopolitical researcher and manager with two decades of experience in financial services and consulting, Ann has worked as an economist and head of Emerging Markets Research at both Citi and Nomura. Ann also currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Gatehouse Advisory Partners, a geopolitical consulting firm based in London, and contributes analysis to Oxford Analytica, an internationally renown global analysis and advisory firm. Ann is a member of the board of the Tunisian American Enterprise Fund, established by the United States government to help foster stronger investment ties with Tunisia and launch local SMEs as engines for longer-term growth. Ann is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA), and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (Masters).

Asad Naqvi – Managing Director, Apis Partners
Asad Naqvi is a Managing Director at Apis, a private equity fund specializing in financial services and financial technology investments in growth markets. Asad is actively involved in originating, executing and managing the firm’s investments. Prior to Apis, Asad was a Partner at Wolfensohn Fund Management, the financial services focused private equity fund founded by James Wolfensohn (former World Bank President). Asad headed Wolfensohn’s London office and managed several of the firm’s financial services investments, ranging from consumer finance lenders to stock exchanges. Previously, Asad was the Director of Acquisitions & Investments at The Resource Group (TRG), a global investment holding company, and started his career at Lazard where he worked on over 10 M&A transactions with an aggregate value of over $14 billion. Asad has served on the Board of Directors of several investee companies, and has spoken on issues of financial inclusion and innovation at several industry events. Asad holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Georgetown University.

Alexander Trotter - Founder, Newmarket Asset Management
Alexander Trotter is a partner and founder of Newmarket Asset Management, a specialist investor in frontier African equities. He has been involved in African investment and business management since 2006. Prior to founding Newmarket, he was a portfolio manager of Fulcrum Asset Management and previously headed United Bank for Africa’s Global Asset Management business. He has considerable African investment and corporate finance experience, particularly within the financial services sector and held senior positions at the United Bank for Africa Plc, during the period of the Group’s expansion across Africa. He began his career at Linklaters as a corporate lawyer, working in cross border mergers and acquisitions, followed by banking and asset management positions at UBS, GAM and Firecrest Hambro. Alex holds degrees from Oxford University and Imperial College.

Chair: Eli Talmor – Founder of Institute of Private Equity, London Business School
Founder of Private Equity at LBS, Professor Eli Talmor is co-author of International Private Equity, broadly considered to be the reference book on the private equity industry. He is frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches to business executives worldwide, testified at the UK Parliament on private equity and advised the UK Prime Minister’s Office. He served on the London Business School Board of Governors and the advisory board of the African Venture Capital Association. He also practices venture capital and is a serial cornerstone investor with multiple exits. Before joining the London Business School, he was on the finance faculty at the University of California (UCLA and Irvine), Tel Aviv University and the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania).

15:00 – Keynote Session
Bas B. Bakker - Senior Regional Resident Representative, Central & Eastern Europe, IMF

Bas B. Bakker is the IMF's Senior Regional Resident Representative for Central and Eastern Europe in Warsaw. He joined the IMF in 1993 and has held in four IMF departments, working on a range of countries, and policy and research issues. He has worked extensively on central and Eastern Europe, including as head of the Emerging Europe Regional Division and as mission chief for Bulgaria, and is the co-author of the book "How Emerging Europe Came Through the 2008/09 Crisis: An Account by the Staff of the IMF's European Department." He is a national from the Netherlands and obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Groningen. He is married with three kids.

15:45 – Refreshments

16:00 – Workshop Session
Strand E : Islamic Finance : Demystification of an Emerging Industry
Mohammad Farrukh Raza - Managing Director, IFAAS (Islamic Finance Advisory & Assurance Services) Member, AAOIFI’s Governance & Ethics Board

Farrukh enjoys 13 years of extensive and diverse experience in Islamic finance industry. His contribution involves policy level advisory to the governments of more than 20 countries, building the infrastructure for Islamic finance, and playing key roles in launching ground-breaking Islamic finance operations across several jurisdictions. He led IFAAS team in various high-profile projects, form the development of Islamic finance Masterplans, strategic blueprints and regulatory frameworks for countries to launching over 100 products for institutional clients. He is actively contributing towards the industry’s thought-leadership and standard-setting, pushing Islamic finance to a higher degree of Shariah compliance, professionalism and inclusiveness.

Strand F : Logistics of E-commerce
Alistair Wood – Senior Director Corporate Affairs, Lenton Group
Alistair Wood received his Masters in Financial Economics before joining the Audit & Assurances Services team at EY in Canada. After spending a-number-of-years in Public Practice and having gained extensive experience in auditing and consulting large multi-national corporations as well as SMEs, he moved to Hong Kong to join Lenton Group as Director - Corporate Affairs. Lenton Group is a market leader in the international logistics arena and has one of the largest independent linehaul networks with gateways in over 39 countries. Along with overseeing Lenton Group's Financial department (including Mergers & Acquisitions), he is also Managing Director - UK and is on the Board of Directors sitting alongside members representing the company's three shareholders - GeoPost (La Poste), Japan Post and Hamington Ventures.

16:45 – Workshop Session
Strand G : Fashion in Emerging Markets
Clare McKeeve - Partner, Eaton Gate Capital Partners; Founder of The Luxcite Portfolio

Clare is using her near 20 years of advising and investing across all consumer sectors, to specialise in luxury brands, recognising a lack of strategic investing in smaller companies. Being one of the few female senior investors in private equity, Clare is using her knowledge and experience as an investor and also a consumer (over 80% of consumer purchases are female led), to create this new investment platform.

Clare is a Founder Partner at Eaton Gate Limited. Prior to this, she was a Managing Director & COO for Macquarie Capital in EMEA. She has over 19 years of advisory experience covering several leading Private Equity firms in Europe as well as family offices. She also represented investors in key Boards tied to principal investments as well as a member of the Board of Macquarie Capital in Europe.

Before Macquarie, Clare was an early Partner at Aletheia Partners LLP, advising on mandates with an enterprise value in excess of €5 billion since 2002, covering retail, media and consumer industries primarily in Germany and the UK. Additionally, she has been particularly active in raising €3.4 billion of debt capital. The Enterprise Value of principal investments sums to €2.1 billion (with an investment return of 3.9x on invested capital).

Prior to Aletheia Partners, Clare worked in the Private Equity Group at KPMG, part of the original team to establish this new unit for the partnership covering 13 private equity houses in Europe.

Clare holds LLB in Law from Glasgow University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Finance from University of Strathclyde. She has also qualified for her Fellowship (FCA) from ICAEW.

Strand H : The Start-up World through the Eyes of The Family
Pietro Invernizzi - Dealflow Associate, The Family
Pietro Invernizzi manages deal-flow and fundraising at The Family, a pan-European infrastructure helping ambitious entrepreneurs build successful businesses. A King’s College London grad, Pietro began his journey at The Family after working at a small-cap Private Equity fund in New York (GF Cap) and an M&A investment banking boutique in London (Greenhill). He now works on selecting the best European startups to join The Family and follows them through their growth and fundraising rounds. This involves working with all main stakeholders in the startup ecosystem, including founders, investors, partners, press and schools.

17:30 – Keynote Session: Emerging Markets in 2018: Riding the Growth Wave
Dr. Murat Ulgen – Global Head of Emerging Markets Research, Managing Director, HSBC

Dr. Murat Ulgen is HSBC’s Global Head of Emerging Markets Research and Managing Director. He joined HSBC in April 2006 as the Chief Economist for Turkey. Before joining HSBC, he held several sell-side economist and strategist positions in London and Istanbul, covering more than 15 emerging market countries in that time zone. In December 2009, Dr. Ulgen was appointed HSBC's Chief Economist for Central & Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Ulgen holds a doctorate degree in finance and has also lectured at several Turkish universities on economics and international finance.

18:15 – Closing Remarks

18:30 – Networking Cocktail Reception