Agenda
The IfTI Global Symposium: Financing. Impact. Together. tackled the issue of modernising the trade and development finance landscape to serve future goals. The symposium informed more than 125 financiers and policy makers from 30 countries, improved knowledge and expertise, built bridges strengthening institutional collaboration and moved towards creating a dynamic marketplace for mobilising capital. The symposium shared approaches to better understand and address current challenges, presented case studies, and offered opportunities to discuss practical and pragmatic ways to move forward.
Monday, 18 June2018
19:00 Reception and Dinner (Speakers only)
Hotel Liberty, Grabenallee 8, 77652 Offenburg
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
08:00 Bus pick-up Offenburg Hotels to Campus Gengenbach
08:30 Registration and Coffee
Offenburg University, Campus Gengenbach
Klosterstraße 14, 77723 Gengenbach
09:00 Chair’s Opening Remarks: The Old and New Worlds of Financing
Prof Dr Andreas Klasen, Head, IfTI, Offenburg University
09:10 Welcome Address
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Winfried Lieber, Rector, Offenburg University
Topi Vesteri, Deputy CEO, Finnvera, and President, Berne Union
09:25 Opening Speech
Michael Kleiner, Director General, Ministry of Economic Affairs
09:40 Setting the Scene
Anette Eberhard, CEO, EKF Denmark’s Export Credit Agency
10:00 A New Paradigm: Mobilising Capital to Create Sustainable Impact
Dr Ilona Lundström, DG, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finland
Ashish Kumar, Deputy General Manager, Export-Import Bank of India
10:30 How to Foster Economic Growth: Policies and Strategic Directions
Dr Marion Jansen, Chief Economist, International Trade Centre (ITC)
Dr Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman, Afreximbank
Eng. Hani Salem Sonbol, CEO ITFC, Islamic Development Bank Group
Amb. Ole Thonke, Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
11:15 Morning Refreshments
11:30 How to Leverage Private Sector Financing
Dr Marc Auboin, Economic Counsellor, WTO
Ricarda Dahlheimer, Asset Manager, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
Jennifer Loewen, Director, International Financial Consulting
Johannes Schmidt, Global Head of Finance Advisory, Siemens Financial Services
12:15 Academic Interventions: Innovation, Trade and Development
Prof Dr Mathias Bärtl, Member, IfTI, Offenburg University
Dr Roseline Wanjiru, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
Prof Dr Erdal Yalcin, The Tuborg Research Centre for Globalisation and Firms - Aarhus
13:00 Networking Lunch sponsored by Deutsche Bank AG
Klosterkeller, Campus Gengenbach
Stream 1: Better Together
14:00 How to Share Risk?
Klaus Helsper, Director, DEG
Dr Harald Hirschhofer, Senior Advisor, The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX)
Erik Hoffmann, Global Head of Export & Agency Finance, Banco Santander
Dan Riordan, President Political Risk, Credit and Bond, XL Catlin
Louis Taylor, Chief Executive, UKEF
14:50 How to Create Impact?
Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director, WTO Enhanced Integrated Framework
Guto Davies, Global ECA Leader, GE Capital
Thomas Mahl, Managing Director, sfr consulting, MunichRe Group
Hubert de Milly, Senior Policy Advisor, Agency Francaise de Développement
Michal Ron, SACE, and Secretary General, International Working Group
Stream 2: The DACH Perspective
14:00 Innovationen fördern, Exporte ermöglichen.
Gabriele von dem Bussche, Head, pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Dr Lars Ponterlitschek, Head of Finance and Risk, SERV
Dr Karine Siegwart, Vice Director, BAFU, Switzerland
Michiel de Vries, Global Head Structured Export Finance, ING
14:50 Quo Vadis Exportfinanzierung?
Michael Hannig, CEO, Voith Finance
Matthias Heuser, Head of International Business, LBBW
Ferdinand Schipfer, Head of Department, OeKB
Werner Schmidt, Head of Structured Trade & Export Finance, Deutsche Bank
Edna Schöne, Member of the Board, Euler Hermes Germany
15:40 Afternoon Refreshments
16:00 Towards SDGs and Collaborative Financing: Future Visions and Missions
David Kuijper, Manager, FMO
Paul Mudde, Strategic Business Consultant, Sustainable Finance & Insurance
Haje Schütte, Head of Financing for Sustainable Development, OECD
Mariane Søndergaard-Jensen, Director, EKF Denmark’s Export Credit Agency
17:15 End of Day 1 with bus pick-up Campus Gengenbach to Offenburg Hotels
19:00 Hotel bus pick-up followed by Reception and Dinner
19:30 Reception and Dinner
Schloss Staufenberg, 77770 Durbach
Welcome Address
Volker Schebesta, State Secretary, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
07:30 Bus pick-up Offenburg Hotels to Campus Gengenbach
08:00 Registration and Coffee
Offenburg University, Campus Gengenbach
Klosterstraße 14, 77723 Gengenbach
08:30 Chair’s Opening Remarks
Prof Dr Andreas Klasen, Head, IfTI, Offenburg University
08:40 Better Together Creating Impact
David Drysdale, Head of Division, OECD
Arjun Goswami, Chief, Asian Development Bank
Dr Christoph Herfarth, Head, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs
Dr Gunter Schall, Head Private Sector, Austrian Development Agency
09:30 Parallel Case Studies
Case Study 1: A Joint Approach
Dr Gunter Schall, Head Private Sector, Austrian Development Agency
Ferdinand Schipfer, Head of Department, OeKB
Case Study 2: Fostering trade and sustainability: German Desks
Alexander Feltes, Analyst, DEG
Katja Friedrichs, Investment Manager, DEG
Case Study 3: Trade Finance Innovation
Markus Wohlgeschaffen, Senior Vice President, Trust Bills
Claudia Haas, Senior Vice President, Trust Bills
10:20 Morning Refreshments
10:40 Parallel Case Studies
Case Study 4: Trade and SDGs
Anisse Terai, Head of Policy and Partnerships, ITFC, Islamic Development Bank
Mariane Søndergaard-Jensen, Director, EKF Denmark’s Export Credit Agency
Case Study 5: Local Currency Solutions
Harald Hirschhofer, Senior Advisor, The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX)
Case Study 6: Public and Private Insurance Cooperation
Julie Martin, Managing Director, Marsh
11:45 Report back from Case Studies
Moderator: Vinco David, Secretary General, Berne Union
12:15 Chair’s Closing Remarks
Prof Dr Andreas Klasen, Head, IfTI, Offenburg University
12:30 Interactive Lunch: Creating an Innovative Marketplace for the Future
Klosterkeller, Campus Gengenbach
Hosted by EKF, Denmark‘s Export Credit Agency, and Berne Union
14:00 End of Day 2 with bus pick-up to Offenburg Hotels/Central Station