Speakers 2023
Kalpana Ajayan
Regional Head
South Asia, Women’s World Banking (WWB)
Sumita Kale
Advisor
Indicus Foundation
Nadia Sood
CEO
CreditEnable
Divyashika Gupta
CEO and Managing Director
Stalwart World
Vinay Mathews
Chief Operating Officer
Faircent
Arvind Kodikal
Regional Manager Asia Pacific
Triple Jump
Sandeep Menon
Founder & Managing Director
Vastu Housing Finance Corporation
Beni Chugh
Research Manager
Dvara
Jayshree Venkatesan
Research Director
Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI), Accion
Rahul Sasi
Cybersecurity Expert & Founder
CloudSEK
Sugandh Saxena
CEO
FACE
Aditya Harkauli
Chief Business Officer
Indifi
Bikram Singh
Business Head
Experian Credit Bureau
Tania Pal
Associate Director
CRISIL Foundation
Sharon Buteau
Executive Director
LEAD at KREA University
Gayathri Shanmugam
Co-founder & CEO
Haqdarshak
Amit Arora
Senior Rural Finance Advisor
World Bank
Ajit Agarwal
Lead Strategic Partnerships and Advocacy
WomenWorldBanking
Vineet Chattree
MD
Svatantra Micro Housing Finance, Director – Svatantra Microfin Pvt Ltd,...
Madhusudan Menon
Social Impact Enterpreneur
Henrietta Isaac
Independent Consultant
Housing
Seema Prem
Co-founder & CEO
FIA Global
Dr Susan Thomas
Senior Research Fellow & Co-founder
XKDR Forum
Chetna Sinha
Founder & President
Mann Deshi Foundation
Sasidhar Thumuluri
MD & CEO
Sub-K IMPACT Solutions Ltd.
Sunil Kulkarni
CEO
BC Federation of India
Badal Malick
Founder & Chief Business Officer
KarmaLife
Parul Seth Khanna
CEO
PinBox
Misha Sharma
Lead - Household Finance Practice
Dvara Research
Abhishek Agarwal
Managing Partner
Accion Impact Investment
Iain Brougham
Vice President
Digital Transformation, Accion
Hillary Miller Wise
Deputy Director
Digital Financial Services, Gates Foundation
Arinjoy Dhar
Senior Director Microfinance
BRAC
Pallavi T Madhok
Head Advisory Services - India
Women’s World Banking
Jagannath Shetty
GM Financial Inclusion
Union Bank of India
Jayshree Vyas
Managing Director
SEWA Bank
Mayur Modi
Co-founder & Co-CEO
MoneyBoxx
Puneet Gupta
Founder
kaleidofin
Shweta Aprameya
Founder & CEO
Arth Impact
Smita Premchander
Founder
Sampark
Hrushikesh Mehta
CEO
CredAll
Shalini Gupta
Head Strategy
Sahamati
Howard Miller
Research Director
Centre for Financial Inclusion, Accion
Purvi Bhavsar
Co-founder & Managing Director
Pahal Financial Services
Geeta Goel
Country Director
MSDF
Pramod Dubey
Group Product Head – Rural & Agri Business
ICICI Bank
Abhishek Gupta
Research Manager
Lead at Krea University
Rema Subramanian
Managing Partner
Ankur Capital
S G Anilkumar
Founder & CEO
Samunnati
Manish Thakkar
COO & Co-Founder
Avanti Finance
Jayesh Modi
Chief Executive Director
Kushal Finnovation Capital (Jai Kisan)
Subhrangshu Chattopadhyay
Director Business Development
CRIF High Mark
Rakesh Kumar
Executive Director & CEO
Light Microfinance
Manish Bhatia
President
LendingKart
Siddhika Aggarwal
Co-Founder
Mahila Money
Swati Chowdhury
Vice President
Network & Development, Women’s World Banking- South Asia Vice President-...
Hardika Shah
Founder & CEO
Kinara Capital
K Paul Thomas
Managing Director & CEO
ESAF Small Finance Bank
S. S. Bhatt
CEO
Friends of Women’s World Banking (India)
Mr. HP Singh
Chairman & Managing Director
Satin Creditcare
S Ramann
Chairman and Managing Director
SIDBI
Ravi Aurora
Senior Vice President
Global Public Policy & Indo-Pacific Policy Operations, Mastercard
Alkesh Wadhwani
Director
Poverty Alleviation – India, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Saniya Ansar
Economist
Development Research Group, World Bank
Jiji Mammen
Executive Director
Sa-Dhan
Sadaf Sayeed
Chief Executive Officer
Muthoot Microfin
Amit Kapoor
Founder & CEO
OneStack
Amrita Kapoor
Chief Operating Officer
Swadhaar FinAccess
Neeraj Maheshwari
CEO & Co-founder
M-INSURE
Umanath Mishra
Director
CRISIL Foundation
Amit Agarwal
Regional Director
Central & South Asia, Water Equity
Ganesh Narayanan
Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Business Officer
CreditAccess Grameen
Mona Kachhwaha
Partner
UC Impower
Manoj Gulati
Regional Director – South Asia
Water.org
Praveena Rai
Chief Operating Officer
National Payments Council of India (NPCI)
Amit Salunkhe
Chief Commercial Officer
SatSure
Apoorv Shukla
Lead - Innovative Development Finance
USAID/ India
Vibhor Jain
Chief Business Officer
CreditEnable
Nnikhil Kurhe
Co-founder & CEO
Finarkein Analytics
Roshaneh Zafar
Managing Director
Kashf Foundation (Pakistan)
V Vaidyanathan
Managing Director & CEO
IDFC First Bank
Nita Kejriwal
Joint Secretary
Rural Development, GoI
Hemendra Mathur
Co-Founder
ThinkAg & Venture Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund
Udaya Kumar
MD & CEO
CreditAccess Grameen
Tamal Bandyopadhyay
Consulting Editor
Business Standard
N Sriniasan
Sector Expert
Seema Prem
CEO & Co-founder
FIA Global
Indradeep Ghosh
Executive Director
Dvara Research
Avishek Gupta
Managing Director & CEO
Caspian Debt.
Deepak Kothari
Co-Founder
Ftcash
Pravash Dash
A Retail Banker, Social Entrepreneur and Founder
Arthan Finance
Dinah Bennett OBE
Founder
International Consultants for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise (ICE)
Vinita
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Apollo Hospitals
Hari Menon
Director
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s India Country Office
Anjali Garg
Senior Operations Officer
(Climate FIannce) and Regional Co-Lead, Financial Institutions Group, Advisory Services,...
Mr. Ashutosh Sharma
Founder & Managing Director
Ummeed Housing Finance Private Limited
Vuthy Chea
Regional Director
Asia Debt at Incofin Investment Management
Ragini Bajaj Chaudhary
Senior Advisor
Caspian Debt
Shantanu Pendsey
Head
Agri Business Unit and Govt. Sponsored Schemes (ABU & GSS)...
Dr. Parshant Kumar Goyal, IAS (Tripura 2007)
Joint Secretary
Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India...
Royston Braganza
Grameen Impact Investments India Private Limited
Emma Stanton
Director
Social Impact, South Asia, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
Hemalata Mahalingam
Regional Industry Manager
South Asia – Financial Institutions Group (FIG), IFC
Nitin Agarwal
Founder
Navadhan
Lucia Michelutti
Professor
Anthropology at University College London (UCL)
Sapan Parekh
Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer
Leegality – India’s only Document Infrastructure Platform.
Raunak Mehta
Co-Founder and CEO
Lgloo
Rajat Bansal
Director
Lok Capital
N S Vishwanathan
Former Deputy Governor
Reserve Bank of India
Ittira Davis
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Simona Lanzoni
Member of the Council of Europe’s independent
Sanjay Sharma
Founder and Managing Director
Aye Finance
Dr. Indu Jakhar, ISA
Managing Director
Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal (MAVIM)
Ashish Mehrotra
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Northern Arc Capital
Amit Mandhanya
Executive Vice President
Direct Origination,Northern Arc Capital
Mr. Vinish Shah
Chief Business Officer
Craft Silicon