Opportunity International Fall 2010 Microfinance Conference Archive

Opportunity International held its 2010 Fall Microfinance Conference in Washington, D.C. on Friday, October 8-Saturday, October 9. It was attended by more than 400 engaged people in person and online who want to learn more about microfinance and our work to bring financial services to people living in poverty in the developing world.

Read about breakout and plenary sessions on our programs and featuring experts in microfinance, global development and poverty eradication. Click here to read our conference coverage on the blog.

Friday Morning Plenary Session 1

Kadita “A.T.” Tshibaka, Member of Opportunity’s Board of Directors	Roger Thurow, Senior Fellow for Global Agriculture and Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs	Tamara Cook, Program Officer, Financial Services for the Poor, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Chance Tsamwa, Senior Loan Officer, Opportunity International Bank of Malawi	Maria Otero, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs

Friday Morning Plenary Session 2

Richard Leftley, President and CEO of MicroEnsure, Opportunity’s microinsurance intermediary

Claudia Kennedy, Three-Star Retired Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army

Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize winner, co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Registration Required)

Friday Evening Plenary Session 3

Bill Morgenstern, CEO of Opportunity International	Alice Gasatura, Director of Credit Support, Opportunity Rwanda	Will Ball, Vice President of the Caterpillar Foundation
Knight Kiplinger, Editor-in-chief of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, Kiplinger.com and the Kiplinger Letter	Dale Hanson Bourke, President of the CIDRZ Foundation