Mai Anonuevo
Executive Director of Atikha Overseas Workers and Communities Initiatives Inc. (Atikha)
Estrella Mai Dizon-Anonuevo is the Executive Director of Atikha since 2005. She worked as a researcher of the Frankfurt Institute for Women Research and co-authored the book Ein Traum vom Besseren Leben (A Dream of a Better Life). She also worked as research staff of the Center for Women's Resources (CWR) and authored the publication Migration of Women: The Social Trade Off. She is one of the editors of Women Migration and Reintegration, a book on the research conducted by Atikha on the social cost of migration and the plans for reintegration of migrants in Hong Kong and Italy. Ms Dizon-Anonuevo has published several books on migration-related issues and has been involved in research and module development. She has been a trainer and facilitator of Atikha's Financial Literacy seminar for the last six years. She also led the management of several migration and development projects including an EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiatives that involved the setting up of One-Stop Migration Resource Centers and School-Based Program addressing the social cost of migration; and the IFAD co-funded project that involved engaging and mobilizing migrants' resources from Italy towards agri-based cooperatives in the Philippines.

Norbert Bielefeld
Deputy Director, Payments and Securities, European Savings Bank Group (ESBG)
Norbert Bielefeld joined the ESBG/WSBI in November 2001 with responsibilities for all payments topics and securities markets both European and worldwide. He represents ESBG on the ECB's TARGET2 Securities Advisory Group, the European Commission's E-Invoicing Expert Group, and chairs the European Payments Council's Cards Standardization Task Force. Mr Bielefeld served as Secretary General of the European Payments Council for its inaugural term and was re-elected to the Steering Committee of the Global Payments Forum in 2006. Mr Bielefeld is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (Paris) and a chartered accountant.

Hans Boon
Postal and Remittances Specialist at the Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR) - IFAD
Hans Boon is a Dutch national who joined the FFR team at IFAD early 2013. He is an international expert in postal financial reform with 22 years leading or participating programs in 60+ countries worldwide. Most of the initiatives focus on increased delivery of financial services in the last mile and to the un(der)served, and on partnership building of the Posts with the financial sector. Mr. Boon gained broad practitioner experience as a Vice President of ING, and prior to that held management positions in the Netherlands Postbank and Post Office, then involved in pioneering postal (bank) reform and privatization. He has extensive experience in working with the World Bank Group, UPU, UNDP, EU, AU, and Governments and Central Banks. He headed the team to assist the Brazilian government in setting up Banco Postal, lead as CEO the reform of the Armenian national postal operator, and authored research publications about the role of postal networks in expanding access to financial services.  Mr. Boon holds a B. Sc. ( Econ) , Technical University, Eindhoven and completed postgraduate courses in banking, finance, marketing management, and project management.

Massimo Cirasino
Head of Payment Systems Development Group (PSDG) - World Bank
Massimo Cirasino, an Italian national, joined the World Bank in July 1998 and is now Head of the Payment System Development Group (PSDG). He has published several papers on the payments and securities settlement system, among which a path-breaking article on payment system oversight. Mr Cirasino is an officer of the central bank of Italy (Banca d'Italia), which he joined in 1993. From 1993 to 1996, Mr Cirasino worked in the Payment System Department, and from 1996 until the time he joined the World Bank, he served Banca d'Italia in its Representative Office in New York. Prior to joining the Banca d'Italia, Mr Cirasino worked in Brazil as a journalist and a researcher in monetary economics and has travelled extensively throughout Latin America. Mr Cirasino carries degrees in Economics and Business and Political Sciences. He also obtained a Master's degree in Banking from the La Sapienza University in Rome and a Master's of Philosophy in Economics from New York University.

Pedro De Vasconcelos
Programme Coordinator of the Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR) - IFAD
Pedro de Vasconcelos joined IFAD in 2007 as Programme Coordinator of the multi-donor FFR (composed of EU, Inter-American Development Bank, Governments of Luxembourg and Spain, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, and United Nations Capital Development Fund). From 1998 to 2000, Mr De Vasconcelos served at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva under the project MicroBanks in cooperation with the Banque International du Luxembourg. The same year, he joined the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, and was responsible for launching and coordinating the remittance programme for Latin America and the Caribbean until early 2007. Mr De Vasconcelos holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Business from the University of Toulouse-France and a Masters in International Business and Management from the University of Paris IV, La Sorbonne.

Henri Dommel
Financial Inclusion Practice Area Director - UNCDF
Henri Dommel, a French national, joined UNCDF as the Director of the Financial Inclusion Practice Area in 2007. Mr. Dommel started his career at Banque Paribas in New Delhi as well as in Paris at the bank's department for Africa and the Middle East. He joined the UN system in 1992, working as Programme Manager at UNCDF until 2001. Prior to joining UNCDF again, Mr. Dommel worked from 2001 to 2007 as Senior Technical Advisor for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Mr. Dommel holds a Master's degree in International Affairs from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and a degree from the "Institut d'Études Politiques" of Paris, France.

Mayada El-Zoghbi
Regional Manager Middle East and North Africa
Mayada El-Zoghbi is a senior Microfinance Specialist and Manager of CGAP's Donor and Investor Team, based in Paris. The D&I Team offers a series of products that support funders in their work including annual funding surveys on cross-border flows into microfinance, training for funder staff, the SmartAid Index, one-on-one advisory work with funders, and research and publications. Ms El-Zoghbi oversees all work products of the team as well as serving as a core technical specialist on training, research, and the SmartAid Index. Before joining CGAP, she founded and managed a development consulting firm for eight years, working with funding agencies such as the IFC and USAID. Ms El-Zoghbi led numerous technical assistance, evaluation, and research assignments including projects in Afghanistan, Egypt, Palestine, Sierra Leone, and other locations. She also served as Research Director for a USAID knowledge management initiative on microfinance and conflict, where she authored numerous papers and facilitated many industry learning events. Ms El-Zoghbi supported the start-up and growth of MFIs in Palestine, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Kosovo. From 2006-2008, she was an adjunct associate professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) teaching courses on microfinance. Ms El-Zoghbi holds a Master's degree in International Affairs from SIPA at Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in Business from the University of Minnesota. She is bilingual in Arabic and English.

Isaku Endo
Remittances Specialist at Payment Systems Development Group (PSDG) - World Bank
Isaku Endo is a Financial Sector Specialist in the Payment Systems Development Group (PSDG) of the World Bank where he advises governments on the development of payment and remittance systems. Since he joined PSDG in 2010, Mr Endo has managed and participated in a number of policy development projects, technical assistance programs, and assessment programs of payment and remittance systems. He also plays a key role in the Secretariat of the Global Remittances Working Group. From 2004 to 2010, Mr Endo worked at the Financial Market Integrity Unit in the World Bank where he led technical assistance programs and policy development and research projects on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), access to finance and remittance issues, and participated in AML/CFT assessment programs as part of the World Bank/IMF Financial Sector Assessment Program. Mr Endo was also a coordinator of the AML/CFT work for the Latin America and the Caribbean region and represented the World Bank at international forums in the region. He published a number of World Bank papers on remittances as well as policy papers on access to finance issues.

Leon Isaacs
Managing Director - International Association of Money Transfer Networks
Leon Isaacs has over 15 years of hands-on experience in the remittance industry and has been involved with two successful start-up money transfer businesses during that time - MoneyGram and Coinstar. He is also Managing Director of IAMTN - the global trade body for remittance and money transfer companies. Mr Isaacs is a Steering Group member of the UK Government's Remittances Task Force and is part of the World Bank sponsored Public Private Partnership on Remittances. DMA provides a broad range of services that help mobilize funds into developing markets. These include consumer remittance comparison websites (www.moneymove.org, www.sendmoneypacific.org), a remittance database (www.dmassocs.com/dril), consultancies, organizing inward investment conferences and development conferences.

Sergey Nanba
Postal Financial Services Coordinator - Universal Postal Union
Serguei Nanba has been working for the Universal Postal Union, one of the UN specialized agencies, since 1988. He is responsible for coordinating and organizing the development of postal payment service programmes in the UPU member countries, with the following particular objectives: modernizing systems for exchanging payments between postal administrations and people worldwide; facilitating customers' access to postal and banking services; and creating new postal financial services. Mr Nanba's areas of responsibility include cooperation with international organizations and financial institutions, and standardization and regulation of postal financial services. He is also Assistant Secretary of the Postal Operations Council, one of the permanent bodies of the UPU. He worked in the postal industry for ten years prior to his appointment by the UPU.

Manuel Orozco
Senior Associate - Inter-American Dialogue (IAD)
Manuel Orozco is Senior Associate and Director of Remittances and Development at the Inter-American Dialogue. Dr Orozco is Chair of Central America and the Caribbean at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute. He is also adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he is senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration. Dr Orozco has conducted extensive research, policy analysis and advocacy on issues relating to global flows of remittances, and migration and development worldwide. He frequently testifies before Congress and has spoken before the United Nations. Dr Orozco holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master's in Public Administration and Latin American Studies, and a Bachelor's in International Relations from the National University of Costa Rica.

Leila Rispens-Noel
Remittances Programme Manager at International Alternative Financial Institutions (INAFI International)
Leila Rispens-Noel works as Remittances Programme Manager at INAFI, a network of more than 300 microfinance institutions located in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Before joining INAFI, Ms Rispens-Noel was Programme Officer at Oxfam Novib, and provided technical assistance to Netherlands-based, Dutch non-governmental and diaspora organizations with projects in Africa. She also designed and implemented capacity-building programs tailored for diaspora organisations and assisted in the formation of diaspora networks. Ms Rispens-Noel has been advocating for the inclusion of migration in development strategies and the active participation of diaspora organizations in decision-making processes in the field of migration and development. She was a member of International Advisory Committee of the Civil Society Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD) in 2008. She is a member of the Migrants Advisory Board (MAB) of the EC-UN Joint-Initiative for Migration and Development and President of Association of Bansaleños Worldwide (ABW). Ms Rispens-Noel holds a Bachelor in Commerce (Major in Accounting) from the Holy Cross of Davao College (Philippines) and a Diploma in Rural and Agricultural Project Planning at the Institute of Social Studies (The Netherlands).


Qifeng Zhang
Principal Financial Sector Specialist, Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI) - ADB