The Philippines Investment Forum 2017 | Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC | 27 November 2017 | Shangri-La at the Fort, 30th Street, corner 5th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, 1634 Metro Manila, Philippines

There’s no doubt that the Philippines is enjoying enviable growth rates by global and even emerging market standards under the Duterte administration. The questions are – how will the Philippines rebalance its economy to become more inclusive and investment-led? How will the Philippines’ twin engine of remittances and BPO fare in an era of trade protectionism? Is there a public-private consensus over how we approach infrastructure development in the Philippines? And will the Philippines’ geopolitical play backfire?

Meanwhile, another important change of guard just took place in the Philippines with the appointment of Hon Nestor Espenilla, Jr as the Governor of Bangko Sental ng Pilipinas in July 2017. How will the domestic banking sector and capital markets evolve under the new central bank leadership to support the country’s growing and changing financing needs? And how quickly can the Philippines embrace digitalisation while maintaining the highest standards of financial governance?

The Euromoney Philippines Investment Forum will reconvene on 27 November in Manila where we will host a series of panel discussions that will bring together policy makers, financiers, investors and real sector businesses to address all the above questions.

Join us at the 6th edition of the Euromoney Forum to be brought up-to-date on the state of the Philippine economy and to exchange perspectives with a high-level audience of the Philippines’ onshore and offshore economic stakeholders.

2017 Speakers:

Vivek Pathak
Regional Director, East Asia and the Pacific, International Finance Corporation

Tony Shale
Chief Executive Officer, Asia, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC

James Abbott
Partner, Allen & Overy

George Barcelon
President, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Roberto Batungbacal
Country Director, Philippines, The Dow Chemical

Edwin Bautista
President and Chief Operating Officer, UnionBank of the Philippines

Alix Burrell
Principal Investment Officer, Infrastructure Finance East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank

Dane Chamorro
Senior Partner and Head of ASEAN, Control Risks

Aloysius B Colayco
Country Chairman, Jardine Matheson Philippines

Jose Ma Concepcion III
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Chairman, ASEAN Business Advisory Council

Michael Enriquez
Chief Executive Officer, Sun Life Financial Philippines

Toby Fildes
Managing Editor, GlobalCapital

Eduardo Francisco
President, BDO Capital & Investment Corporation

Aaron Gwak
Head of Capital Markets, ASEAN, Standard Chartered Bank

John Cary Ong
Senior Vice President, Head of Transaction Banking, UnionBank of the Philippines

William Pesek
Senior Advisor, Euromoney Conferences

Roel Refran
Chief Operating Officer, Philippine Stock Exchange

Robert John Sobrepeña
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fil-Estate Management

Alexander Stathopoulos
Partner, Allen & Overy

Matthew Thomas
Asia Bureau Chief, Banking and Capital Markets, Euromoney Institutional Investor

Dean Van Drasek
Executive Director, Arch Capital Solutions

Lawrence Velasco
Director, Project Development, Public-Private Partnership Center

2017 Sponsors:

LEAD:
• BDO Unibank
• Union Bank

GLOBAL BANK:
• Standard Chartered

CO-SPONSORS:
• Allen & Overy

SUPPORTING:
• APBC
• British Chamber of Commerce Philippines
• CCI France Philippines

DATA PARTNERS:
• CEIC
• EMIS

MEDIA:
• Asia Money
• Euromoney
• Global Capital
• Global RMB