21st Annual Global Private Equity Conference 2020 | EMPEA | 11 May 2019 | The Ritz-Carlton, 1150 22nd Street, N.W, Washington, DC 20037, United States

The Global Private Equity Conference (GPEC) is the world’s leading event dedicated to exploring private investment opportunities across emerging and frontier markets, convening over 900 industry professionals from more than 70 countries annually. The conference brings together practitioners from a broad array of institutions—from family offices, endowments, pensions, sovereign wealth funds, experienced fund managers and new investment teams to private equity consultants and advisors, academia, multilateral organizations and governments—for thought-provoking discussions, debates and networking opportunities organized around topics and themes that are top-of-mind for today’s finance and industry leaders.

2019 Past Speakers

Patrick Abouchalache
Managing Director, The PEGA Group

Jorge Ahumada
Partner, Aqua Capital

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde
Founder and Managing Partner, Riverwood Capital Partners

Luiz Felipe Andrade
Senior Partner, Pragma Patrimonio

Göksel Aşan
Director, Finance Office of the Turkish Presidency

Hany Assaad
Co-Founder, Chief Portfolio and Risk Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, Avanz Capital

Akhil Awasthi
Founding Managing Partner, Tata Capital Growth Funds

Nicolas Bañados Lyon
Managing Director of Private Equity, Megeve Investments

Teresa Barger
EMPEA Board of Directors Vice Chair; Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cartica Management, LLC

Thomas Barry
President and Chief Executive Officer, Zephyr Management, L.P

Afsaneh M. Beschloss
Founder & CEO, Rock Creek

Erik Bethel
Alternate Executive Director, The World Bank

Heinz Blennemann
Principal, Blennamann Family Investments

David Bohigian
Executive Vice President, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

Paul Boynton
CEO, Old Mutual Alternative Investments (OMAI)

Gregory Bowes
Co-Founder and Managing Principal, Albright Capital Management

Hazel Bradford
Senior Reporter, Washington Bureau of Pensions & Investments

Lawrence Brainard
Chief Economist, Emerging Markets, TS Lombard

Roberta Brzezinski
Managing Principal, Growth Markets, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)

William J. Burns
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

Tim Burroughs
Managing Editor, Asian Venture Capital Journal

João Busin
Partner, TozziniFreire Advogados

Mike Casey
Founder and Managing Director, Portico Advisers, LLC

Jaime Cardoso
Co-CEO, Crescera Investimentos

Catherine Cax
Director of Investments, Soros Economic Development Fund, Open Society Foundations

Jeff Chi
Managing Director, Vickers Venture Partners, Vice Chairman of Vickers Capital Group

Jennifer Choi
Managing Director, Industry Affairs, Institutional Limited Partners Association

Lauren Cochran
Managing Director, Blue Haven Initiative

Sir Paul Collier
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Rahul Chowdhri
Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners

Gonzalo Costa
Managing Partner, NXTP Labs

Colin Clark
Managing Director, TRG

Nishith Desai
Founder, Nishith Desai Associates

Clarisa De Franco
Managing Director, Funds and Capital Partnerships, CDC Group plc

Janet Devinney
Investment Director, Kamehameha Schools

Hernando de Soto
Chairman, Institute for Liberty and Democracy

Patricia Dinneen
Impact Investing Council Chair and Senior Advisor, EMPEA

Frank Dunlevy
Counselor to the President and CEO Vice President, Investment Funds Department Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Greg Durst
Managing Director of Corporate Development for ILPA

Monica Brand Engel
Co-Founding Partner, Quona Capital

Tilman Ehrbeck
Managing Partner, Flourish

Brian Finerty
Chief Investment Officer, Equity International

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

William E. Ford
CEO, General Atlantic

Paul Frankish
Investment Director and Head of Strategic Initiatives, African Infrastructure Investment Managers

Chris Freund
Partner, Mekong Capital

Pamela Fung
Executive Director, Portfolio Manager for Asia Pacific, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners

Barış Gen
Principal Investment Officer Regional Lead, Private Equity Funds Europe and Central Asia, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Gregory V. Gooding
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Drew Guff
Managing Director And Founding Partner, Siguler Guff & Company

Mukul Gulati
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Zephyr Peacock India

Maryanne Hancock
CEO, Y Analytics

Walter van Helvoirt
Environmental & Social Officer, FMO

Daniel Hoh
Partner, Proventeus

Philippe Le Houérou
CEO, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Kevin Horvath
Manager, EMPEA

Aubrey Hruby
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Center, The Atlantic Council

Jane Jenkinson
Real Estate Specialist, International Finance Corportation (IFC)

Dhanpal Jhaveri
Managing Partner, Everstone Capital and CEO, EverSource Capital

Eric Jones
Eric Jones, Chief of Staff at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Mary Ellen Iskenderian
President and CEO, Women’s World Banking

Johnny F. Jones
Partner, Vantage Capital

Rashad Kaldany
Partner, CIO, and Founder, Blue like an Orange (BlaO) Sustainable Capital

Erman Kalkandelen
Chief Executive Officer Turkey, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity ,Templeton Asset Management Ltd.

Rishi Kapoor
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Investcorp

Gil Karsten
Partner, at Patria

Andrea Kaufman
Vice President of Impact Investments, Prudential

Ralph Keitel
Principal Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Mark D. Kenderdine-Davies
Chair, General Counsel, CDC Group plc

Homi Khara
Interim Vice President and Director, - Global Economy and Development, Brookings

Cameron Khosrowshahi
Investment Officer Private Capital, and Microenterprise Office United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Maria Kozloski
Global Head & Chief Investment Officer, Private Equity Funds, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Yup S. Kim
Senior Portfolio Manager, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC)

Krzysztof Kulig
Senior Partner, Innova

Shilpa Kulkarni
Co-founder and Managing Director, Zodius Funds

Eric Kump
Managing Director and Head, Carlyle Sub-Saharan Africa Fund

Andrew Kuper
Founder and CEO, LeapFrog Investments

Maggie Lake
Veteran Journalist and Former Business Anchor and Correspondent, CNN International

Roger Leeds
Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Director, School’s Center for International Business and Public Policy

Peter Lesburg
Managing Director, Capital Markets & Investor Relations, Realterm/IndoSpace

Jeffrey Liebert
CEO, Gazelle Finance

Frederick J. Long
Managing Director, Olympus Capital

Diego López
Managing Director, Global SWF

Stuart MacKenzie
Chief Executive Officer, Ethos Private Equity

David R. Malpass
13th President, of the World Bank Group

Joanne Manrique
President, Center for Global Health and Diplomacy

Bailey McCann
Senior Editor, Opalesque

Kelly McCarthy
Director, The Global Impact Investing Network

George McPherson
Managing Director, Criterion Africa Partners

Atul Mehta
IFC Global Head, Telecom Media Technology, Venture Capital and Funds Department

Prakash H. Mehta
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Eduardo Michelsen Delgado
Co-founder, Current Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Kandeo

Sari Miller
CEO, Sarjay, Inc.

Piero Minardi
Managing Director, Head of Brazil, Warburg Pincus

Steve Moseley
Head of Alternative Assets, Alaska Permanent Fund

Xiaomin Mou, Ph.D.
Senior Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation Venture Capital

Wassim Moukahhal
Managing Director - Private Equity, Samena Capital

Gail Mwamba
Managing Editor, Private Equity Africa

Vali Nasr
Dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Steve Nelson
Chief Executive Officer, Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA)

Andrew Newington
Partner, Chief Investment Officer/Chief Operating Officer, Actis

Lexi Novitske
Chartered Financial Analyst, and Kauffman Fellow

Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
Lead founder and Chairman, Strategic Investment Group and Co-Founder, Emerging Markets Management

Steve Okun
ASEAN Representative, EMPEA

Stephen O’Neill
Managing Director, 57 Stars, LLC

Barış Öney
Founder and Managing Partner, Globalturk Capital and EMPEA Country Representative – Turkey

Kerem Onursal
Partner and Investment Committee member, Turkven Private Equity

A. Murat Özgen
CEO, İş Private Equity

Ziad Oueslati
Co-Founder, AfricInvest

Siddhant Raj Pandey
Chairman and CEO, Business Oxygen Pvt. Ltd.

William Pearce
Managing Director, Investment Funds, OPIC

Jennifer McLeod Petrini
Senior Investment Officer, Private Equity Funds, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Laura Kemp-Pedersen
Chief Marketing Officer, LeapFrog

Alona Ponomareva
Principal Portfolio Manager, World Bank Pension Plan

Olivia Prentice
COO, Impact Management Project

Robert Petty
Co-Founder Clearwater Funds / Co-CEO and Co-CIO, Fiera Capital

Jennifer Pryce
President and CEO, Calvert Impact Capital

Raghuram Rajan
Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Vineet Rai
CEO and Managing Director, Aavishkaar

Ron Rawald
Head of International Real Estate and Senior Managing Director, Cerberus Capital Management

Russell Read
Managing Director & Global Head of Client Solutions, MSCI

Leonardo Resende
IPO Director, B3

Richard Rincon
Senior Director at the University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company (UTIMCO)

Nicolas Rohatyn
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, The Rohatyn Group

Derrick Roper
Novare Equity Partners, Africa

David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group

Lila P Rymer
Head of US Political Risks & Credit, Beazley

Abdiel Santiago
CEO and CIO, Fondo de Ahorro de Panamá

Paul Sanford
Chief Investment Officer, TriLinc Global

Ommeed Sathe
Vice President & Head, Impact & Responsible Investing, Prudential Financial

Henny Sender
Chief Correspondent, International Finance, Financial Times

Cem Sertoglu
Partner, Earlybird Venture Capital

Jeff Schlapinski
Director, Research, EMPEA

Stuart Schonberger
Founding Partner, CDH China Management Company Limited

Dr. Helmut M. Schuehsler
CEO and Chairman, TVM Capital Healthcare Partners

Isaiah Schulze
Managing Director, Cerberus Frontier

Kai Schmitz
Founding Partner, Crestone

Nimit Shah
Partner, Helios Investment Partners

Sapna Shah
Managing Director, Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)

Anne Shelton
Chief Investment Officer, Atapco

Karsten Sinner
Head of Infrastructure Funds and Regional Head of SEMED Funds, European Bank For Reconstruction And Development

Zafer Sönmez
Managing Director, Turkey Wealth Fund

Mario Spinola
Partner and Director, Principia Capital Partners

Srini Sriniwasan
Managing Director, Kotak Investment Advisors Limited

Matteo Stefanel
Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Apis Partners

Jorge Steffens
Founding Partner of Oria

Daisy Streatfeild
Investor Practices Programme Director, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change

TC Meenakshi Sundaram (TCM)
Founder & Managing Director, Chiratae Ventures

Jean Phillippe Syed
Principal, DPI

Gillian Tett
US Managing Editor, Financial Times

Ravi Thakran
Chairman and Managing Partner, L Catterton Asia

Brad Thawley
Senior Director Private Equity, UTIMCO

Mara Topping
Partner, White & Case

Sever Totia
Partner, 3TS Capital Partners

John F. Tsui
Managing Principal, Peninsula House, LLC

Rekha Unnithan
Lead Impact Portfolio Manager, Nuveen

Bert van der Vaart
Co-Founder & CEO, SEAF

Coenraad Vrolijk
Regional CEO, Allianz

Michael Warren
Managing Director, Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG)

Gordon Watson
Partner, VPC

Marcin Wysocki
Marcin Wysocki, Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer, Avia Capital

Rebecca Xu
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Asia Alternatives Management LLC

Judy Ye
Founding Partner, YiMei Capital

Joanne Yoo
Managing Director, DPI

Bruno Zaremba
Head, Private Equity, Vinci Partners

Camilo Zea
Managing Partner, PRONUS

Lin-Lin Zhou
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Principle Capital

Rachel Ziemba
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)