October 4th, 2006
Private Equity Panel at Columbia Business School
This note is from IPEG member, Christian Lee, who has organized a panel on “The Role of Private Equity in Emerging Market Development” under the aegis of Columbia Business School’s Social Enterprise Program on Friday Oct 6th from 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm. I know it’s fairly short notice, but this really is a terrific event with a super panel and falls right in line with IPEG member interests.
The panelists are:
Tom Barry, Founder and CEO, Zephyr Management
Bert van der Vaart, President and CEO, SEAF
Peter Trooper, Senior Investment Officer, IFC Private Equity Department
Yasmina Zaidman, Portfolio Manager, Acumen Fund
Professor David Beim, co-author of the “Emerging Financial Markets” textbook, will moderate.
The panel was designed to bring together a group of individuals that all make investments in emerging markets, but all with different motivations, expectation of returns, and ways of measuring success. We hope that by having such a diverse group of panelists we can examine some of the key questions at the intersection of development and private sector investment, including, “What role do private equity investors play in emerging market economies?”, “Are positive investment returns synonymous with positive development impacts?”, and ”To what extent can or should investors sacrifice medium-term returns for long-term development in emerging markets?”
If you are interested, please register for the conference here. In addition to this panel, there are a number of other interesting panels, including a discussion on Bottom of the Pyramid strategies, Multinationals and Corruption, etc.