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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 Session IV: “Measuring up to Responsible Investment Principles: Social & Environmental Dimensions” Session Chair:
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the NDBP and a member of the Governing Board of the Financial Institutions Commission in the Republic of Palau. This Commission has been asked to introduce acceptable banking laws into the country that meets international banking standards. He rejoined FDB as its Chief Executive Officer in October 2003. He has a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Management from the University of the South Pacific and is a Senior Associate of the Australian Institute of Banking & Finance (AAIBF) Speaker 1:
Mr. Niels van Dijk joined USAID’s Environmental Cooperation – Asia (ECO-Asia) as Deputy Chief of Party in early 2006. ECO-Asia is a regional program that promotes a range of initiatives, including access to clean water and sanitation for the urban poor, and improved environmental governance and transboundary cooperation. Mr. van Dijk is in charge of ECO-Asia’s water and sanitation component, which focuses on improved corporate governance and management by water service providers, innovative models for expanding water and sanitation services, especially to the poor, improving enabling conditions for water and sanitation services, and increasing access to innovative finance. Since 1989, he has worked as assistant advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works. From 2000 through mid 2003, Mr. van Dijk acted as project director for DHV, one of Europe’s largest consultancy firms. In addition to preparing, negotiating and managing various donor funded infrastructure projects throughout Asia, Mr. Van Dijk provided oversight for DHV’s pre-financing of municipal projects ranging from concessions for managing water treatment plants and efficiency improvements for reducing Unaccounted for Water to semi-privatizing the collection of property tax and issuance of building permits. Since July 2003, Mr. Van Dijk acts as TCGI’s Vice-President in charge of the daily management of the firm. His portfolio includes urban management and project finance projects for USAID, including managerial oversight for the FIRE/D project in India and the worldwide DCA project development and monitoring support for USAID’s Office of Development Credit. For DCA he prepared a water finance strategy for USAID/Indonesia and managed the development of DCA concept papers and action packages for a number of innovative water supply projects in Indonesia. He is also acts as project manager and senior advisor for two other USAID projects: Ecolinks (Eastern Europe) and Good Urban Governance in South Asia (GUGSA). For GUGSA, Mr. van Dijk leads the development of strategic planning guidelines for building disaster-resilient cities, integrating the principles of good urban governance (involving tsunami-affected municipalities in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia). He obtained his MSc, Urban & Regional Planning in 1992 and his BSc, Urban Planning in 1988 at the University of Amstedam, The Netherlands. He is a Certified Project Management Professional (CPMP), Project Management Institute (PMI), The Netherlands. Speaker 2:
She is also the Managing Director of Green Capital Advisors, a firm specializing in the area of renewable energy and carbon finance. She obtained her M.A. Economics at the Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario,Canada. |
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Updates January 8, 2007 Administrative Arrangements The 30th ADFIAP Annual Meetings hosted by Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) will be held at the Melia Hanoi Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 9 to 12, 2007. The Opening Ceremonies of the Annual Conference is scheduled to begin at 0830 hrs on Friday, May 11, 2007, at the Main Ballroom of Melia Hanoi Hotel. Delegates are requested to register starting 0800 hrs prior to the start of the Opening Ceremonies if they have not done so upon arrival.
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Mr. Tukana BOVORO, Chief Executive Officer of Fiji Development Bank, has worked in the banking finance sector for over 25 years. He worked for many years with the Fiji Development Bank, from a Loan Officer to General Manager. He has also held the position of General Manager of Finance for the FDB when the incumbent was absent on study leave. He left the Fiji Development Bank and worked for the Colonial National Bank in Fiji as its Assistant General Manager, before joining the National Development Bank of Palau (NDBP) as the Bank’s President in January 2000. 
Mr. Niels van DIJK is a municipal infrastructure development specialist with more than 15 years of professional experience in need assessments, project design, planning, budgeting and project management of a variety of infrastructure development projects in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Ms. Diana SMALLRIDGE, President of International Financial Consulting Ltd. since June 2000, is a well-known expert in the area of official finance institutions including Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), Export-Import Bank (EXIM Banks) and Development Banks. She has extensive knowledge of these systems around the world and the business models they employ. She has a special focus on strategic planning and governance issues relating to commercially operated government-owned financial institutions. The firm which she founded and leads, International Financial Consulting Ltd., is a world leader in providing advice for financial services offered in support of trade, investment, and development. 
