2010 Agenda

Banking on the Future: Microfinance as Service
October 1, 2010
Sponsored by the Francis Center for Servant Leadership at Pfeiffer University

08:00 – 08:45	Sign In
08:45 – 09:00	Dr. Espy, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Pfeiffer University
09:00 – 09:45	Keynote Speaker, Todd Engelsen, President, PEER Servants “How Microfinance Transforms the Materially Non Poor”
09:45 – 10:30	Darline Augustine, (Ph.D. candidate) London School of Economics & Political Science* “Conceptualizing Good Practice in Corporate Governance”
10:30 – 10:45	BREAK
10:45 – 11:30	Dr. Ken Carter, Senior Minister, Providence United Methodist (PUM), Charlotte NC “The PUM Experience with Microfinance in Haiti”
11:30 – 12:15	Rodolfo Beazley, Board member of Mujeres 2000, an Argentinean NGO* “The Needed Coordination within Microfinance”
12:15 – 01:30	LUNCH (complements of The Charlotte Symphony Guild) Alice Gasatura, Director of Credit Support, URWEGO Opportunity Bank (UOB), Rwanda “As a loan officer I see firsthand how microfinance is transforming” (Moderated by *Sam Serio, Regional Director, Opportunity International*)
01:30 – 02:15	Veronica Trujillo, (Ph.D. Candidate) Salamanca University, Peru* “The Role of Government in Latin American Microfinance Industry”
02:15 – 03:00	Joe Mynatt – Grameen America, Charlotte, NC “Grameen America was founded upon the belief that the system that has succeeded with remarkable results in the villages of Bangladesh could work in urban America”