Making Finance Work for Women Summit 2017 | Making Finance Work for Africa | 24 October 2017 | Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam, Kivukoni Rd, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

The Summit will convene 300 participants from around the world in a variety of innovative sessions addressing the most important issues in women’s financial inclusion. Attendees and participants will include leaders from the financial services, consumer products, and technology industries, investors, philanthropists and government, along with Women’s World Banking’s global footprint of 49 member institutions from 32 countries.

Women’s World Banking is excited to host its biennial Making Finance Work For Women Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on October 24th and 25th, 2017. This marks Women’s World Banking’s third summit, with past gatherings in Berlin, Germany and Amman, Jordan.

KEY AGENDA THEMES
• Digital Financial Services (Agent and Mobile Banking, FinTech, Blockchain and more)
• Behavioral Design
• In Focus: Consumer Segments (Girls, SMEs, Supply Chains)
• Inclusive Policy and Regulation
• Gender Lens Impact Investing
• Diversity and Inclusion in Corporate Leadership

Alex Blau
Vice President, ideas42

Dougie Brew
Director, Communications, Corporate Affairs and Sustainable Living, Unilever Africa

Ineke Bussemaker
CEO, NMB Bank Plc

Mayra Buvinic
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development & UN Foundation

Charlene Chen
Chief Operating Officer, BitPesa

Anne-Marie Chidzero
Principal Partner, Alitheia Identity

Gladness Clara Deogratias
Head of Foreign Exchange Trading, NMB Bank

Fatema Dewji
Marketing Director, METL

Supun Dias
Head of Business Development, Hatton National Bank

Marina Dimova
Managing Director for Innovation and Design, Women's World Banking

Uzoma Dozie
CEO, Diamond Bank Plc

Charity Dhliwayo
Chair, Graca Machel Trust-New Faces New Voices Zimbabwe Trust

Karim Fanous
Executive Director, Lead Foundation

Tatenda Gatawa
Data and Analytics Transformation Executive, IBM

Samit Ghosh
CEO, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

Diana Boncheva Gooley
Manager, Digital Financial Services, Women's World Banking

Laura Hemrika
Global Head Corporate Citizenship & Foundations, Credit Suisse

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

CJ Juhasz
Chief Investment Officer, Women's World Banking Asset Management

Tukiya Kankasa-Mabula
Deputy Governor, Administration, Bank of Zambia

Elizabeth Kellison
Deputy Director, Gender Lead, Financial Services for the Poor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Henriette Kolb
Head of the Gender Secretariat, IFC

Noako Koyama-Blanc
Partner, Dalberg Global Development Advisors

Marie Kyle
Head of Product Development and Innovation, BIMA

Mary Largey
Head of Financial Institutions, Equity Investments, CDC Group

Irene Madeje Mlola
Operations Director, FSD Tanzania

Karen Miller
Chief Knowledge and Communications Officer, Women's World Banking

Rose Muturi
Country Manager, East Africa, Tala

Mark Napier
Director, FSD Africa

Amolo Ng'weno
East Africa Regional Director, BFA Global

Caitlin Sanford
User Experience Research Lead, Facebook

Oluwatoyin Sanni
Group Chief Executive Officer, United Capital Plc

Herman Smit
Technical Director/Head of Client Insights, Cenfri

Muna Sukhtian
Managing Director, Microfund for Women

Angela Sun
Global Head of Strategy and Corporate Development, Bloomberg

Heidi Toribio
Global Head, Banks & Broker Dealers, Corporate and Institutional Banking, Standard Chartered Bank

Carolina Trivelli
Senior Researcher, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos

Bonney Tunya
Achor, CNBC - Africa

Matt Wallaert
Behavioral Scientist, An N of 1

Olivia White
Principal, McKinsey and Co.

Roshaneh Zafar
Managing Director, Kashf Foundation

LEADING SPONSORS
• Standard Chartered
• UKaid
• FSD Africa

ADVANCING SPONSORS
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• ExonMobil
• CITI
• Diamond

BROADENING SPONSORS
• International Finance Corporation
• White & Case