Welcome and introductory remarks

• Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• Lennart Båge, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Migration and remittances:
Implications and prospects for Europe and the Western Hemisphere

• Charles Klingman, Senior-Level Policy Expert and Director for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Compliance Policy , United States Department of the Treasury , Office of the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance
  
• Carlos Westendorp y Cabeza, Ambassador of Spain to the United States
• Angelo Baglio, Assistant Deputy Director-General EuropeAid Co-operation Office

Session II: Migration and remittances worldwide: Human face of globalization
IDB Auditorium (A-3)

Measuring remittance flows in the Western Hemisphere and rural LAC

• Donald Terry, Manager, Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF)

Country-by-country map of worldwide remittances: A rural development opportunity?

• Kevin Cleaver, Assistant President, Programme Management Department (IFAD)

Impact of remittances: From a poverty reduction tool to a development plan
Session III: Remittances: Enabling environment and realities
IDB Auditorium (A-3)

Moderator
Richard Lapper, Latin America Editor, Financial Times

Accounting for remittances flows worldwide

• Manuel Orozco, Professor, Remittances and Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue (IAD)

Regulatory environment in the remittance market in 2007 

• Nikos Passas, Professor, Northeastern University (US)

Microfinance: Keystone for Rural Remittances 

• Jennifer Isern, Lead Microfinance Specialist,  Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)

Postal networks and remittances: Outreach and financial services

• Serguei Nanba, Coordinator, Financial postal Services, Universal Postal Union (UPU)

Microfinance, remittances and housing: Building a dream

• Kai Schmitz, Executive Vice President/COO, Microfinance International (MFIC)

14:45

• Kathleen Newland, Director, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
• Raul Hinojosa, Research Director, NAID Center, University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles
• Dilip Ratha, Senior Economist, Migration and Remittances Team, Development Prospects Group , World Bank

Moderator
Pedro De Vasconcelos, Remittances Program Coordinator, IFAD

Remittances as a development tool in LAC

• Natasha Bajuk, Remittances Program Coordinator,  Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF)

Facilitate the flow of remittances

• Thomas Debass, Senior Remittance and Diaspora Advisor, United States Agency for International Development  (USAID)

World Bank/CPSS task force on remittances

• Massimo Cirasino, World Bank

Euro-Mediterranean remittances: Investments and partnerships

• Pedro J. F. de Lima, Deputy Economic Advisor, European Investment Bank  

Conclusions of the day

• Donald Terry, Manager, Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF)

Session VI-A:
Financial inclusion:
Connecting financial opportunities
IDB Auditorium (A-3)

Session VI-B:
Investment opportunities
for migrant’s capital in rural areas
Conference Room 2 (CR-2)

Panelists

• Diwa Guinigundo, Deputy Governor, Monetary Stability Sector, Central Bank of the Philippines
• Henrik Parl, Managing Director,Eurogiro Network A/S (Denmark)
• Mónica Brand, Vice President and Program Manager ACCION Internacional
• Carlos Heisecke-Rivarola, Director,Financiera El Comercio, S.A.E.C.A (Paraguay)

Panelists

• Ildefonso F. Bagasao, Chair, Economic Resource Center for Overseas Filipinos (ERCOF) (Philippines)
• Danny Bradlow, Professor, American University, Washington College of Law(US)
• Rodolfo Garcia Zamora, Professor, University of Zacatecas, Diaspora business plans (Mexico)
• Leila Rispens-Noel, Programme Officer Bureau Popular Campaigning , Oxfam-Novib, Netherlands

Questions and answers

Questions and answers

Session VII-A:
Innovation in services and technology:
SMS and e-Banking for the rural poor
IDB Auditorium (A-3)

Session VII-B:
Gender dimension  of migration and remittances for rural development
Conference Room 2 (CR-2)

Moderator
Pedro De Vasconcelos, Remittances Program Coordinator (IFAD)

Panelists

• Richard Schweger, CFO/COO BGS Smartcard Systems
• Chris Martin, CEO, Obopay, Inc.
• Joe Barboza, CEO, Cyphermint
• Jeff Slowik, Exec VP , PayQuik

Panelists

• Carmen Moreno, Director, INSTRAW
• Petra Mezzetti, Researcher , CESPI
• Odile Ngo Mbilla Moukouri, Association des femmes de l’Afrique Subsaharienne A.D.A.S.
• Linda Mayoux,Initiative  International Development Consultancy