November 22-23, 2007
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi

Session details, presentation and papers are available in downloadable format.

November 22, 2007

Inaugural Session
Words of Welcome:	Rajiv Kumar Director & CE, ICRIER
Special Address:	Andreas Pfeil Head, Economic Cooperation and Development, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Overview of the conference :	Günther Taube                       InWEnt
Session I: Financial Globalisation and Domestic Financial Sector Development - Implications for Monetary Policy
Chair:	Rajiv Kumar Director & CE, ICRIER
Participants:	Rakesh Mohan Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India [download presentations] Dietrich Schönwitz Professor, Deutsche Bundesbank [download presentations][download Issue Notes] H.N. Thenuwara Assistant Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka [download presentations] Pierre Siklos Professor, Wilfred Laurier University, Canada [download presentations][download Issue Notes]
Session II: Global Integration of the Financial System and Domestic Financial Sector Liberalisation – Analytical Issues
Chair:	K. P. Krishnan Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
Participants:	Priya Basu Lead Economist, Finance and Private Sector, South Asia Region, The World Bank [download presentations] Vivek Moorthy Professor, IIM Bangalore [download presentations] Martin Bohl Professor, University of Münster, Germany [download presentations][download Issue Notes]
November 23, 2007
Session III: Financial Inclusion - A Key Challenge for Financial Sector Development
Chair:	Ashok Kumar Paudel Deputy Director, Banks & Financial Institutions Regulation Department,Nepal Rastra Bank
Participants:	Elaine Kempson Professor, University of Bristol, and Member of the Social Security Advisory Committee, HM Treasury Financial Inclusion Taskforce, Great Britain [download presentations][download Issue Notes] Niclaus Bergmann German Savings Bank Foundation for International Cooperation [download presentations][download Issue Notes] A. Ramanathan Chief General Manager, Micro Credit Department, NABARD [download presentations] Mandira Sarma Fellow, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations [download presentations][download Issue Notes]
Session IV: Effects of Basel II on Regulatory Aspects of Central Banking in Emerging Markets and Developing Countries
Chair	Günther Taube Head of Department, InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany
Participants:	Ramon Moreno Head, Emerging Market Issues, Bank of International Settlements [download presentations] Ricardo Gottschalk Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex [download presentations][download Issue Notes] D. Ravishankar Director, Risk Solution, Asia Pacific, Standard & Poor’s [download presentations][download Issue Notes] Naba Gopal Banik General Manager, Banking Regulation & Policy Department, Bangladesh Bank [download presentations] Peter Spicka Senior Advisor for Banking and Financial Supervision, Deutsche Bundesbank [download presentations] [download Issue Notes]