SPEAKERS

Smt Nirmala Sitharaman
Hon’ble Finance Minister, Government of India

Shri Rajiv Kumar, IAS
Finance Secretary Government of India

Shri Sanjay Agarwal, IAS
Secretary Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare

Paul Winters
Associate Vice-President, Strategy and Knowledge Department at the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

SHICHIRI Tomio
FAO Representative in India Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Senarath Bandara
Chief Executive Officer/General Manager Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
Chairman, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)

Prasun Kumar Das
Secretary General, APRACA Bangkok, Thailand

Ashok Gulati
Infosys Chair Professor for Agriculture Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Bernard Lehmann
Former Secretary of State and Director General, Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), Switzerland, Berne

Thouraya Triki
Director, Sustainable Production, Markets and Institutions Division (PMI), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Pierre Jacquet
President, Global Development Network, New Delhi

Sunil Kumar
Chief General Manager, NABARD, Head Office, Mumbai

Ramesh Chand
Member, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) Government of India

Amar KJR Nayak
Professor of Strategic Management & Principal Investigator, Sustainable Ecological Systems, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIM-B)

Suresh Pal
Director, ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, India

Anil Kumar Sharma
Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India

Bruno VINDEL
Task team leader, Financial Institutions division Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD)

Ashis Mondal
Founder Director, Action for Social Advancement (ASA)

Calvin Miller
International Consultant
Agricultural Finance,
USA

Apirom Sukprasert
President, Bank for Agriculture & Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), Thailand

Michael Hamp
Regional Lead Technical Specialist (Inclusive Rural Financial Services for Asia and Pacific) International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

QIAN Wenhui
Vice Chairman of the Board & President Agricultural Development Bank of China

Matthew Shakhovskoy
Senior Advisor Initiative for Smallholder Finance (ISF) USA

Jean-Marie Sander
Former chairman of Credit Agricole SA, and Current Chairman, CICA

Jean-Christophe Debar
Director, Foundation for world Agriculture and Rurality (FARM)

Bernard Belk
Assistant Director of the Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), Switzerland

Joseph d’Auzay
Secretary Gennerral, CICA Switzerland

John Joel Amimo
Programme Coordinator, AFRACA Nairobi, Kenya

George Kuria
Chief Executive Officer, ACRA Africa Nairobi, Kenya

Dickson Naftali
Head of Program, MobiGrow – KCB Nairobi, Kenya

Thomas T. Essel
Secretary General, AFRACA Nairobi, Kenya

David Ruchiu
Africa Director & Chief Rural Economist Farm Concern International, Kenya

Pranav Prashad
Senior Technical Officer at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s Impact Insurance Facility.

Ernest Desrosiers
Chief Executive Officer of La Financiere agricole du Quebec

Thierry Langreney
Chief Executive Officer of Pacifica, manager of Credit Agricole Assurances.

Malick Ndiaye
Managing Director of La Banque agricole, Senegal

Mariem Dkhil
Director, Sustainable Development Finance, Credit Agricole du Maroc; Morocco

Siraj Hussain
Visiting Senior Fellow ICRIER, New Delhi India

Jesus Alan Elizondo Flores
Director General, FIRA, Mexico

CLAUDE TORRE
AGENCE FRANCAISE DE
DEVELOPPEMENT (AFD), New Delhi, India

Christoph Kessler
Director, KfW Office
New Delhi, India

Edgardo Alvarez
Secretary General, ALIDE
Lima, Peru

Shri Mahesh Kumar Jain
Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Mumbai, India

Tanaratt Ngamvalairatt
Senior Executive Vice President, Bank for Agriculture & Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), Thailand

Dr Jean-Claude Bidogeza
Lead Economist, ARC African Risk Capacity (ARC)