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Wednesday, May 25th
8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast MC Front Lobby
9:00 – 9:15 Welcoming Remarks
- Jan Walliser, Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, World Bank
Speaker
9:15 – 9:45 Keynote Address
- Aisa Kacyira, Deputy Executive Director, UN-HABITAT
9:45 – 11:00 Session 1:
Is the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal realistic and achievable? What needs to happen to make it a reality?
- Half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – lives in cities today
- By 2030, almost 60 per cent of the world’s population will live in urban areas
- 95 per cent of urban expansion in the next decades will take place in developing world
- 828 million people live in slums today and the number keeps rising
What role will Housing Finance play in harnessing the investment necessary to build the cities and the decent affordable housing which will be needed over next 14 years and beyond? Can the goal be reached? What needs to change?
Session Chair: Loic Chiquier, World Bank
Speakers:
- Jan Mischke, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
- Sriram Kalyanaraman, Chairman and CEO, National Housing Bank, India
- Edith Castro Bedolla, Deputy General Director, CONAVI, Mexico
- Aisa Kacyira, Deputy Executive Director, UN-HABITAT
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and Tea Break MC Front Lobby
11:30 – 12:45 Session 2:
Sub-Saharan Africa faces a population and urbanization challenge over coming decades which is unparalleled across the World. It requires millions of new houses and trillions in investment. What are the pioneering programs being adopted to create the new housing stock? How can governments respond to the needs of those most vulnerable and on lowest incomes? How can housing help create vibrant African cities?
Session Chair: Irina Astrakhan, World Bank
Speakers:
- Oscar Mgaya, Chairman, African Union for Housing Finance
- Charles Inyangete, CEO, Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Company
- James Mugerwa, CEO, Shelter Afrique
- Kecia Rust, Director, Centre for Affordable Housing Finance Africa
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch James D. Wolfensohn Atrium
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3:
Emerging Markets face a common challenge of lending to those at the bottom of the pyramid who are on low incomes and/or work in the informal sector. What is the latest thinking in adapting existing models to fit these challenges? What role should government take in providing a housing safety net? Is homeownership the best solution for those on lowest incomes? How can lenders underwrite loans for those working in the informal sector?
Session Chair: Friedemann Roy, IFC
Speakers:
- Fran?ois Perrot, Head of Affordable Housing, LafargeHolcim
- May Abdel Hamid, Chairman, Mortgage Finance Fund, Egypt
- David Smith, CEO and Founder, Affordable Housing Institute
- Wijayanto Samirin, Special Staff for Economy and Finance, Vice President’s Office, Government of Indonesia
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee and Tea Break MC Front Lobby
16:00 – 17:15 Session 4:
Accessing long term funds remains among the biggest challenges in developing housing finance in emerging markets. What has been experience with different financial instruments ranging from covered bonds, MBS and mortgage liquidity facilities? In the post-subprime era, how do new regulations impact funding? What will the Basel III Net Stable funding Ratio mean for lenders? What is future role of securitization?
Session Chair: Andrey Milyutin, World Bank
Speakers:
- Luca Bertalot, Secretary-General, European Covered Bond Council - European Mortgage Federation
- Olivier Hassler, Chairman, CRH, France
- András Kiss, Head of Savings & Credit, Fundamenta Lakaskassza, Hungary
17:15 – 19:00 Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres MC Front Lobby
Thursday, May 26th
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast MC Front Lobby
9:00 – 9:10 Introduction to Day 2
9:10 – 9:45 Role of Private Sector in Delivering Affordable Housing for all by 2030
- Renu Karnad, Managing Director, HDFC, India
9:45 – 11:00 Session 5:
The scale of the investment required will necessitate a strong private sector expansion in many markets to plug the housing investment shortfall. What are the implications for lenders in terms of risk management, funding? What are the new business models? How can ICT be harnessed for housing finance? Can international capital flows provide investment returns and new housing stock?
Session Chair: Britt Gwinner, IFC
Speakers:
- Femi Johnson, President Mortgage Bankers Association of Nigeria
- Rodrigo Barrera, Founder & CEO, Club de Rentas, Retna Ingeniería Inmobiliaria, México
- Christian Agossa, Managing Director, Caisse Régionale de Refinancement Hypothécaire de l’UEMOA (CRRH-UEMOA)
- Renu Karnad, Managing Director, HDFC, India
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and Tea Break MC Front Lobby
11:30 – 13:00 Session 6:
Housing access for all by 2030 will not be achieved if some segments of the population remain excluded and deprived with access to adequate land and housing. This session will bring a variety of perspectives on policies and actions needed to address affordable housing challenges for those excluded due to tenure, race, ethnicity, or gender.
Session Chair: Yan Zhang, World Bank
Speakers:
- Shruti Gonsalves, CEO, SEWA Grih Rin, India
- Ashna Mathema, Senior Urban development Specialist, World Bank
- Kecia Rust, Director, Centre for Affordable Housing Finance Africa
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch MC East Dining Room (C1-level)
14:15 – 15:00 Using New Technology to Create a New, Inclusive Housing Model
- Alastair Parvin, Cofounder, WikiHouse Foundation
Alastair Parvin is an architectural and strategic designer and co- founder of the WikiHouse project work which aims to bring access to housing to all through 3D printing of housing assembly kits. His work looks beyond the conventional framework for architecture, looking at the economic, financial, social, political and technological operating systems behind it.
15:00 – 16:15 Session 7:
Housing displaced population – either due to conflicts or large scale natural disasters – has become one of the most urgent development issues in many parts of the world. New solutions are required to provide temporary and permanent housing for displaced people at short notice, in contexts of limited capacity and unclear property rights, while at the same time, avoiding increased pressure on low-income housing in hosting communities. Are there successful stories? What are the financing implications? What role the humanitarian community, governments and the private sector should play respectively?
Session Chair: Ayat Soliman, World Bank
Speakers:
- Charles A. Setchell, Senior Shelter, Settlements, and Hazard Mitigation Advisor, USAID Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance
- Maria Ana Oliveros, President of Social Housing Finance Cooperation, Philippines
- Priscilla Phelps, International Advisor on Post-Disaster Recovery
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee and Tea Break MC Front Lobby
16:45 – 17:45 Session 8:
The challenge of delivering housing for all by 2030 calls for a holistic understanding of the housing value chain (formal & informal). An efficient housing system requires full alignment of the supply side (planning regulations, access to land, infrastructure, developer finance, construction, and building materials) and the demand side (end user finance) aspects of the sector. It also calls for coordinated actions across the national and local governments, the private sector, and the communities themselves. This session will bring together different perspectives from stakeholders to discuss where change is needed to make Housing for all by 2030 a reality.
Session Chair: Anna Wellenstein, World Bank
Presenters:
- Paloma Silva de Anzorena, Director General, CONAVI, Mexico
- Marja Hoek-Smit, Director/Founder, International Housing Finance Program, Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center
- Jorge Pérez Jaramillo, Former Planning Department Director for the city of Medellín, Colombia
- Patrick Mwenda Bucha, Secretary Housing, Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development, Kenya
17:45 – 18:00 Closing Remarks
- Kecia Rust, Director, Centre for Affordable Housing Finance Africa
