EVENT HIGHLIGHTS: Emerging Markets Still Ripe with Opportunity
Much talk these days focuses on emerging markets as having lost their luster. Once lauded as new economic powers, these markets are now experiencing lowered growth rates and other problems. Experts from industry, academia and government gathered to examine the state of emerging markets in the third in a series of Emerging Market Forums hosted by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. READ MORE/SEE PHOTOS/WATCH VIDEOS

Emerging Markets at the Crossroads: Current Challenges and Future Prospects
Friday, April 26, 2013 – 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center – Pavilion Room
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20004

You'll hear from international experts representing academia, government and business at this exciting day-long event, which investigates the slowing growth of booming emerging markets and the positive role that diaspora communities play - both in the U.S. and in their ancestral countries.

Keynote Speaker Ian H. Solomon, United States Executive Director, The World Bank The Honorable Ian Solomon is the United States Executive Director of the World Bank Group. Mr. Solomon was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate. As the U.S. Executive Director, he represents the United States as the largest shareholder on the executive boards of the World Bank Group institutions.

Distinguished Luncheon Speaker Janamitra Devan, Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development, International Finance Corporation Janamitra Devan is Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development (FPD). FPD plays a vital role in operations, strategy and knowledge for both the World Bank and IFC.

Other speakers include:

• Eric Guichard - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Homestrings
• Devesh Kapur - Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania
• Stijn Claessens - Assistant Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund
• Leora Klapper - Lead Economist, Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development, World Bank
• Economic Ministers from the Embassies of Chile, China, Mexico, South Korea, and Turkey

This year's Emerging Markets Forum is hosted by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and the Center for Financial Policy (CFP).