Name |
Affiliation/Title |
Presentation |
Session 1:
Financing agricultural R&D |
Nienke Beintema |
IFPRI |
Investments Trends in and Funding Options for Agricultural Research with Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa |
William Masters |
Purdue University |
Innovative Finance for Agricultural R&D |
Annik Dollacker |
Bayer CropScience |
Bayer CropScience and Agricultural R&D |
Session 2:
Index-based insurance for agriculture |
Jerry Skees |
University of Kentucky |
Using Index-based Risk Transfer
Products to Facilitate Rural Lending in Mongolia, Peru, Vietnam |
Olivier Mahul |
World Bank |
Promoting Innovative Sovereign Catastrophic
Risk Financing Solutions |
Hemanth Valvekar |
BASIX |
BASIX & Weather
Insurance |
Joanna Syroka |
WFP/World Bank |
Experiences in Index-Based
Weather Insurance for Agriculture- Lessons Learnt from India & Malawi |
Christina Ulardic |
Swiss Re |
Index Based Insurance for Agriculture |
Session 3:
Micro health insurance in Africa |
Gerry Noble |
MicroCare |
Affordable Access to Quality Healthcare |
Rupalee Ruchismita |
IFMR |
Proliferation & Penetration of Micro Health Insurance- A Few
Lessons |
Agnes Chakonta |
Madison Insurance |
Microinsurance and
HIV/AIDS in Zambia
(Appendix) |
Session 4:
Sub-national instruments for
financing basic utilities |
Jason Ngobeni |
City of Johannesburg |
Sub-National
Instruments for Financing Basic Utilities & the City of Johannesburg |
Isaura A. Guzmán L. |
Fitch Ratings |
The Role of International Credit Ratings in Financing Utilities- The Case of
Mexico |
Randall Dodd |
IMF |
Lessons From The
U.S.-Muni bond market inefficiencies and what to do about them |
Vikram Kapur |
Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Ltd. |
Case study
from India- Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund |