Emerging Markets Private Equity Week in Washington, D.C. | IFC and EMPEA | 14 May 2018 | The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C., 1150 22nd Street N.W, Washington, DC 20037, USA

•The Global Private Equity Conference serves as an anchor for two additional complimentary events during emerging markets private equity week in DC: The 8th Institutional Investors-Only Summit on the Monday (14 May) prior to the Conference and the EMPEA Private Equity Masterclass on the Thursday (17 May) following.
•To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Conference, please join IFC and EMPEA for a special celebratory reception at the iconic Organization of American States headquarters in Washington, D.C. on the evening of Tuesday 15 May following the first day of the conference. All conference delegates, EMPEA members and IFC guests are welcome to attend if pre-registered by 9 May 2018. Due to security considerations, the OAS will not allow on-site registrations and access will not be granted to unregistered reception guests. We regret IFC and EMPEA are unable to make any exceptions to this policy.

2018 Speakers

James Ahn
Managing Director, CD&R

Runa Alam
Co-Founder & CEO, Development Partners International (DPI)

Akintoye Akindele
Partner, Synergy Capital Managers

Albert Alsina
Founder & CEO, Mediterrania Capital Partners

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

Akhil Awasthi
Managing Partner, Tata Capital Growth Fund

Patrice Backer
Chief Investment Officer, AFIG Funds

Deepali Bahl
Principal - Global Infrastructure Fund, IFC Asset Management Company

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

Elizabeth Bell
Principal, Jaguar Growth Partners

Phil Bennett
First Vice-President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Afsaneh M. Beschloss
Founder & CEO, Rock Creek

Asheesh Birla
Senior Vice President of Product, Ripple

Matthew Bishop
Managing Director, The Rockefeller Foundation

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

Monica de Bolle
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Fernando Borges
President, ABVCAP and EMPEA Board Member

Paul Boynton
Chief Executive Officer, Old Mutual Alternative Investments (OMAI)

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

Patrick Brean
Managing Director, Cristalus

Natasha Buckley
Investment Practices Senior Manager of Private Equity, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

João Busin
Partner, TozziniFreire Advogados

Michael Calvey
Senior Partner and Director, Baring Private Equity International, Baring Vostok Capital Partners

Alberto Camões
Founding Partner, Stratus Group

Torbjorn Caesar
Senior Partner, Actis

Jaime Cardoso
Senior Partner, Bozano Investimentos

Mike Casey
Founder and Managing Director, Portico Advisers, LLC

Liliana Reyes Castrejón
CEO, AMEXCAP

Panaikorn Chartikavanij
Partner, Lakeshore Capital

Ambassador Chas Freeman
Chairman, Projects International and Senior Fellow, the Watson Institute, Brown University

Walid Cherif
Senior Managing Director, Gulf Credit Partners

Maya Chorengel
Senior Partner, Impact, The Rise Fund

Sara Cortes
Assistant Director, Division of Management, Securities & Exchange Commission

Paul Cunningham
Chief Financial Officer, Helios Investment Partners LLP and Chairman, IPEV

Ahmet Burak Dağlıoğlu
Head of Department, Investment Support and Promotion Agency (ISPAT)

Gilles de Clerck
EuroMena Funds

Nishith Desai
Founder, Nishith Desai Associates

Jorge Dickens
Managing Partner, ACON Investments

Patricia Dinneen
Impact Investing Council Chair and Senior Advisor, EMPEA

Isabelle Diop
Senior Research Analyst, EMPEA

Mark Eckstein
Director, Environmental and Social Responsibility, CDC

Okechukwu Enelamah
Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment for Nigeria

David Fann
President & CEO, TorreyCove Capital Partners

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

Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Deepak Gark
Founder and CEO, Rivigo

Kavita Gupta
Founding Managing Partner, ConsenSys Ventures

Pavan A. Gupte
Managing Director and Investment Committee Member, Samena Capital

Karim Harji
Program Director, Oxford Impact Measurement Programme, Said Business School

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

Jason Tan
Chief Investment Officer, Jeneration Capital

Søren Thinggaard Hansen
Head of Private Equity, Industriens Pension Denmark

Raza Hasnani
Head of Infrastructure Investments, Africa50 Project Finance

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

Dr. Mo Ibrahim
Founder & Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Vijay Iyer
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)

Fred Jacobs
Chief Revenue Officer, Apex Fund Services

Anadi Jauhari
Senior Managing Director, Emerging Energy and Environment Investment Group (EEEIG)

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

Brooke Jones
Director of Investments, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Dan Keeler
Frontier Markets Editor, The Wall Street Journal

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

Jay Koh
Co-founder & Managing Director, The Lightsmith Group

Lenna Koszarny
Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer, Horizon Capital

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

Andrew Kuper
Founder and CEO, LeapFrog Investments

Christiane Laibach
Member of the Management Board, DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH

Pascal Lamy
Former Director-General, World Trade Organization (2005-2013)

Nancy Lee
Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development

Stephen Lee
Principal, Impact Investing, TIAA

Roger Leeds
Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) & Director, Center for International Business Policy

Philippe Le Houérou
CEO, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Jeffrey Leonard
Chairman Emeritus & Member of Board of Directors, EMPEA; President & CEO, Global Environment Fund

Josh Lerner
Head of Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School

Serge LeVert-Chiasson
Partner and Managing Director, Sarona Asset Management

Michael Madden
Managing Partner, Ronoc & Chairman, Teneo Capital

Carlos Eduardo Martins
Partner, Vinci Partners

Leith M. Masri
Founding Partner, Foursan Group

Scott McDonough
Managing Director & Founding Partner, Alta Growth Capital

Scott Mackin
Managing Partner and Co-President, Denham Capital

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

Piero Minardi
Managing Director, Head of Brazil, Warburg Pincus

Wassim Moukahhal
Managing Director - Private Equity, Samena Capital

Prashanth Murali
Counsel, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Moisés Naím
Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Former Minister of Trade and Industry for Venezuela

Harish Natarajan
Senior Payment Systems Specialist, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation, World Bank Group

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

Shami Nissan
Head, Responsible Investment, Actis

Peter O’Driscoll
Partner and Head of Emerging Markets Group, Orrick

Stephen O’Neill
Managing Director, 57 Stars, LLC

Michael Octoman
Senior Partner and COO, Navis

Steve Okun
ASEAN Representative, EMPEA

Baris Oney
Founder and Managing Partner, Globalturk Capital and Country Representative – Turkey, EMPEA

Brian Oravec
Managing Partner, IndoSpace Capital Asia

A. Murat Özgen
CEO, İş Private Equity

Jay Park
Managing Director, BlackRock Private Equity Partners

Eliot Pence
Senior Managing Director and Africa Practice Leader, McLarty Associates and Founding Executive Director, US-Nigeria Council

David Pierce
Managing Director, Head of Asia, HQ Capital

Karthik Prabhakar
Director of Investments, IDG Ventures India Advisors

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

Michael Pisa
Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development

Honorio Poblador IV
Managing Partner, Navegar

Santiago de La Porta
International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Renuka Ramnath
Founder, MD & CEO, Multiples Alternate Asset Management

Selma Ribica
Director, Africinvest

Richard Rincón
Emerging Markets Investment Officer, UTIMCO

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

Derrick Roper
Novare Equity Partners, Africa

Alex R. Rossi
Managing Partner, LIV Capital

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

Paul Sanford
Chief Investment Officer, TriLinc Global

Genevieve Sangudi
Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

Cem Sertoglu
Partner, Earlybird Venture Capital

Ranjit Shah
Managing Partner, Gaja Capital

Jeff Schlapinski
Director, Research, EMPEA

Gregorio Schneider
Partner, TCP Capital

Stuart Schonberger
Founding Partner, CDH China Management Company Limited

Henny Sender
Chief Correspondent, International Finance, Financial Times

Jean-Michel Severino
CEO, Investisseurs & Partenaires

Bernard Sheahan
Founder & Head, Infrastructure Ideas

Marcus Simpson
Head of Global Private Capital, QIC

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
24th President of Liberia, first female head of state in Africa and Nobel Laureate

Rajat Tandon
President, IVCA

Seymur Tari
Co-Founder & CEO, Turkven

Ravi Thakran
Chairman and Managing Partner, L Catterton Asia

Elizabeth Tirone
Associate General Counsel, CDC Group plc

Mara Topping
Partner, White & Case

Sever Totia
Partner, 3TS Capital Partners

Peter Tropper
Senior Advisor, EMPEA

Bert van der Vaart
Co-Founder & CEO, SEAF

Felipe Vilá González
Chief Executive Officer, Corporación Mexicana de Inversiones de Capital, S.A. de C.V. (Fondo de Fondos)

Ranu Vohra
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Avendus Capital

Sam Walker
Award-winning sports writer and editor, author of The Captain Class

Ray W. Washburne
President and CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation

David Wilton
Managing Director & CEO, Zheng Parners LLC

Rae Winborn
Senior Research Analyst, EMPEA

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

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

2018 Sponsors2018 Sponsors, Media Partners & Supporting Organizations

• abvcap
• ApexBrasil
• actics
• APEX
• Avendus
• Africinvest
• Akin Gump
• ALTA
• beazly
• BOZANO
• The Carlyle Group
• CARTICA
• CLEARWATER
• DPI
• EVERSTRONG Capital
• EY
• FieraCapital
• Fondo de Fondos
• GAJA CAPITAL
• Globalturk capital
• HELIOS Investment Partners
• IDG Ventures India
•Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Investment Support and promotion Agency
• KKR
• Lakeshore Capital
• LEAPFROG Investment
• MULTIPLES
• Navegar
• Nishith Desai Associates
• OldMutual Alternative Investments
• orrick
• OPIC
• Principle Capital
• PRIVATEEQUITYBAY
• The Rohatyn Group
• University of Oxford
• Samena Capital
• SEAF
• SS&C GlobeOp
• STRATUS
• TATA CAPITAL GROWTH FUND
• TOZZINIFREIRE
• TridentTrust
• TriLingGlobal
• TURKVEN
• USAid
• white&case

MEDIA PARTNERS:

• AVCJ
• GhinaMoneyNetwork
• preqin
• PrivateEquityAfrica

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS:

• AMEXCAP
• AMIC
• AVCA
• avpn
• ColCapital
• EMpower
• FalkMarquesGroup
• HKVCA
• IVCA
• ilpa
• LAVCA
• PRI
• SAVCA