Finance in the Digital Era 2018 | 18 April 2018 | To be announced, To be announced

The Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Practice and the Research Department jointly invite you to register for the Fifteenth Overview Course of Financial Sector Issues, to be held at Preston Auditorium from June 18th to 22nd, 2018.

The theme of the 2018 Overview Course of Financial Sector Issues will be Finance in the Digital Era. Throughout the week-long course, participants will be able to ask questions and engage in discussions with experts of the financial sector who will identify and analyze the critical issues and share lessons from various countries’ experiences.

The course is intended for mid-level officials from central banks, ministries of finance, and financial regulatory agencies in developing countries, as well as staff involved in financial sector operations from international development organizations and the private sector.

Usman Ahmed
Head of Global Public Policy at PayPal Inc.

Allen N. Berger
H. Montague Osteen, Jr., Professor in Banking and Finance and Ph.D.

Ata Can Bertay
Research Economist at the World Bank's Development Research Group leading the Global Financial Development Report (GFDR) 2017-2018

Javier Bolzico
PhD in Economics from the University of CEMA

Miriam Bruhn
Senior Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development
Team of the Development Research Group

Gerard Caprio, Jr.
William Brough Professor of Economics at Williams
College and Chair of the Center for Development Economics

Mario Catalán
Senior Economist at the Monetary and Capital Markets
Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Martin Čihák
Division Chief in the International Monetary Fund

Alan Elizondo
Director General of Financial System Affairs at Banco de Mexico since 2013

Alfonso Garcia Mora
Director of the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice at the World Bank Group

Alfonso Garcia Mora
Director of the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice at the World Bank Group

Bailey Klinger
Founder, CEO & Executive Chairman of the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab

Annamaria Lusardi
Denit Trust Endowed Chair of Economics and Accountancy at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB)

Dr. Mann
Global Chief Economist

Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
Division Chief of the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department at the IMF

Anthony Saunders
John M. Schiff Professor of Finance at NYU Stern

Sergio Schmukler
Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group

Sergio Schmukler
Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group

Dorothe Singer
Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank

Fiona Stewart
Works for the World Bank's Global Capital Markets, Non-bank Financial Institutions group, which provides policy advice on pension reform to governments around the world

Arun Sundararajan
Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s (NYU) Stern School of Business

Mahesh Uttamchandani
Practice Manager for SME Access to Finance and Credit Infrastructures in the Finance and Markets Global Practice, World Bank Group (WBG)

Emile Van Der Does De Willebois
Lead Financial Sector Specialist

Staci Warden
Executive director of the Center for Financial Markets at the Milken Institute

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
Senior Director for the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice, World Bank Group

Greta Bull
CEO of CGAP and a Director at the World Bank Group

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