XLRI to host the 3rd International Workshop on inclusive finance
The event will be held from Oct 31 to Nov 2 at XLRI.
The 3-day mega event will bring together academicians, stakeholders, practitioners of microfinance institutions (MFIs), NGOs and policy makers to discuss and deliberate on contemporary challenges in financial inclusion.
Some of the eminent speakers at the 3-day seminar will be Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman, NABARD; B Sriram, Managing Director, State Bank of India; Vijay Mahajan, Founder & CEO, BASIX; Aloysis Fernandez, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of NABFINS, Bangalore; YC Nanda, Former Chairman, NABARD; Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Chairman & Managing Director, Bandhan, Kolkata; Jean Dreze, Development Economist & Professor, Delhi School of Economics; T Vijay Kumar, IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India; G Gopalakrishna, Director, CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India, Dr R Bhaskaran, CEO, Indian Institute of Banking & Finance, Mumbai; Alok Pandey, Dept of Financial Services, Government of India; Rajesh Bansal, Unique Identification Authority of India; Subrata Gupta, Chief General Manager, Financial Inclusion Department, NABARD; Alok Misra, Chief Executive Officer, Micro-Credit Ratings International Ltd.; Angela C Lyons, Director, University of Illinois Center for Economic and Financial Education; Arvind Ashta, Professor - Burgundy School of Business, France, among several others.
Along with the Workshop, a national level felicitation, called XLRI-NABARD Award for Innovations4Impact, is being organized on Nov 1, 2014 inviting social innovators, microfinance institutions, and micro-entrepreneurs to present their work, that have made a difference to the life at the bottom of the pyramid by linking finance to livelihoods.
Announcing the initiative, Dr. HK Pradhan, Professor of Finance and Economics & Convener of the Workshop said that the event is expected to serve as a forum for intensive discussions among all stakeholders involved in financial inclusion.
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