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Event Date | Sat May 11 EDT - Thu May 14 EDT (over 5 years ago) |
Location |
The Ritz-Carlton
1150 22nd Street, N.W, Washington, DC 20037, United States |
Region | Americas |
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)