Contributors

The following distinguished speakers and chairs are amongst those expected to contribute to appropriate plenary and parallel sessions. They are listed by region in alphabetical order of surname.

A definitive list of confirmed chairs and speakers on each topic will be published and updated as the event draws nearer.

Additional contributions are invited in order to cover the whole spectrum of small business and entrepreneurship policy and practice around the world.

Mrs Modupe Adelaja, Director General, SMEDAN, SMS Development Agency, NIGERIA

Mr Tamim Amijee, Past Chairperson, Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture, Dar es Salaam Regional Chamber, TANZANIA

Prof Joseph Byaruhanga, General Manager, Uganda Gatsby Trust, Kampala, UGANDA

Mrs Olive Luena, CEO, Tanzania Gatsby Trust, Dar-es-Salaam, TANZANIA

Mr Sani F Mohammed, Senior Manager, Dev. Finance Dept, Central Bank, Abuja, NIGERIA

Mr George Manu, Director, EMPRETEC, GHANA

Mr Abdullah Yussuf Sheikh Nur, Project Manager, African Rural Advancement Org., Nairobi, KENYA

Prof David Phao, CEO, Dept of Science & Technology, Tshumisano Trust, Pretoria, S. A.

Mr Obenakem Maxwell Tabison, Secretary Gen., Rural Dev. Network Found’n, Kumba, CAMEROON

Mr Tim M Cremean, President, National New Enterprise Incentive Scheme Ass. Inc, AUSTRALIA

Mr Gary Hancock, Entrepreneurship, Comm. & Innov. Centre, The Univ. of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

Mrs Kristine J Peters, Chair, North West Business Development Centre, Port Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

Mr Tony Steven, CEO, Council of Small Business of Australia, Kingston, ACT, AUSTRALIA

Dr Roger Wigglesworth, Director SMEs, Ministry of Economic Development, NEW ZEALAND

Ms L.V.Blohina, President, International Social & Economic Union (Women’s), Moscow, RUSSIA

Mr Leszek Janowksi, President, Foundation of SME, Warsaw, POLAND

Prof Ovidiu Nicolescu, President, Nat.Council of SMEs in Romania, Bucharest, ROMANIA

Mr Zlato Paveic, Department Manager, Zagreb Chamber of Economy, Zagreb, CROATIA

Prof Baiba Rivza, Latvia University of Agriculture, Member of Parliament, LATVIA

Mr Aurel Saramet, President , National Loan Guarantee Fund for SMEs, Bucharest, ROMANIA

Mr Antal Szabo, Scientific Director of ERENET, HUNGARY (Formerly UNECE Regional Adviser)

Mr Velimir Vukadin, President, Serbian Association of SMEs, Belgrade, SERBIA

Ms Patricia C. Calilong, Ass. Dir., Philippine Bus. for Social Progress, Manila, PHILIPPINES

Prof Fumihiko Adachi, Prof. of Dev. Economics, Kinjyo-Gakuin Univerity, Nagoya, JAPAN

Ms Dato’ Hafsah Hashim, CEO, Small & Medium Industries Development Corporation, MALAYSIA

Prof Tsugio Ide, ISBC Steering Committee Honorary Secretary, Tokyo, JAPAN

Prof Koichi Ito, Chiba University of Commerce, Chiba, JAPAN

Dr Wimonkan Kosumas, Director, Int. Coop. Dept, Office of SME Promotion, THAILAND

Dr Joon-Ho Lee, Research Fellow, KOSBI, Korea Small Business Institute, Seoul KOREA

Maytee Leelawat, Executive Vice President for Ops., Inst. for SMEs, Pathumthani, THAILAND

Mr Roscher Ping-Pin Lin, Chairman, Association of SMEs, Taipei, TAIWAN

Prof Mannie Manhong Liu, School of Finance, Renmin University, Beijing, CHINA

Mr Kim Ki-Mun, Chairman, Korea Federation of Small & Medium Business, Seoul, KOREA

Mrs Jitraporn Techacharn, Director General, Office of SME Promotion, THAILAND

Mrs Zahariah Zabidin, SVP, Investment, Malaysian Tech. Dev. Bank, MALAYSIA

Representative from SME Admin., TAIWAN

Representative from Shoko Chukin Youth Committee, JAPAN

Representative from a governmental organization, JAPAN

Dr G U K Rao, Director, School of Enterprise Development, Nat. Inst. for MSMEs, INDIA

Mr Vijay Kalantri, President, All India Association of Industries, Mumbai, INDIA

Dr Chukka Kondaiah, Director General, National Institute for MSMEs, Hyderabad, INDIA

Mr Gyan Prakash, Secretary General, WASME, World Association of SMEs, INDIA

Mr Nawaz Rajabdeen, President/Chairman, FCCI, Colombo, SRI LANKA

Professor Vinay Sharma, President, Himalayan Management and Dev. Resources Institute, India.

Mr Zulfikar Thaver, President, UNISAME Union of Small & Medium Enterprises, Karachi, PAKISTAN

Ms Naeema Farooqi, Lecturer, Business Studies, Dar Al Hekma College, Jeddah, SAUDI ARABIA

Dr Mohamed A Hegazi, Director, Small Enterprise Development Center, Cairo, EGYPT

Prof David Kirby, Faculty of Business Admin., Econ. & Political Science, British Univ. EGYPT

Dr Lois Stevenson, Senior SME Specialist, Int. Dev. Research Centre, Cairo, EGYPT

Prof Don Bradley III, Director, SBANC, University of Central Arkansas, USA.

Mr Mario Cardullo, MD, Bellfield Group, USA (US Chair of US-EU Venture Capital Working Group)

Mr Denny Dennis, Senior Research Fellow, Nat. Fed. of Independent Business, Washington, USA

Prof Louis Jacques Filion, Rogers-J.A.Bombardier Chair of Entrepreneurship, HEC Montréal, CANADA

Mrs Catherine Swift, President & CEO, CFIB, Canadian Fed. of Ind. Bus., Toronto, CANADA

Prof Xavier Figarella, Director, Ent. Activities Centre, Universidad Metropolitana, VENEZUELA

Mr Vincius Lages, Manager, SEBRAE, Sepn Quadras, Brasilia, BRAZIL

Prof Robert Bennett, Leverhulme Research Professor, University of Cambridge, ENGLAND

Ms Jackie Brierton, Director, Women's Enterprise Centre of Expertise, Birmingham, ENGLAND

Ms Patricia Callan, Director, SFA Small Firms Association, Dublin, IRELAND

Prof Sara Carter, Hunter Centre for E’ship, University of Strathclyde, SCOTLAND

Mr Alan Cleverly OBE, Executive Director, The Genesis Initiative, Windlesham, ENGLAND

Dr Spinder Dhaliwal, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, School of Management, Univ. of Surrey, ENGLAND

Prof Mark Hart, Small Business Research Centre, Kingston Univ., Kingston-upon-Thames, ENGLAND

Mr David Irwin, Irwin Grayson Associates, (former CEO, SBS) Northumberland, ENGLAND

Mr Andrew Love MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Small Business Group, ENGLAND

Mr Will McKee, Portfolio Entrepreneur, Chairman, Linkubator Ltd, N. IRELAND

Mr Mark Prisk MP, Shadow Minister for Business & Enterprise, House of Commons, ENGLAND

Prof David Storey, Director, Centre for SMEs, Warwick Business School, ENGLAND

Mr Padraic White, former Managing Director, Industrial Development Authority, IRELAND

Mr John Wright, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, London, ENGLAND

Mr. Osman Atac, Chief of Enterprise Management Development Section, ITC, Geneva, UN Agency

Ms Francoise Le Bail, Deputy DG & SME Envoy, Enterprise & Industry DG. European Commission

Mr Andrea Benassi, Secretary General, UEAPME, Brussels, BELGIUM

Dr. David P. Doyle, Board Member, The Kangaroo Group, Brussels, BELGIUM

Mme Marie-Florence Estime, Deputy Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, OECD, Paris, FRANCE

Dr Ingo Friedrich MEP, Quaestor & Member of the Board of European Parliament, Brussels, BELGIUM

Prof Fernando Gaspar, Marketing Dep., Escola Superior de Gestao de Santarem, PORTUGAL

Mr Loek Hermans, President, MKB-Nederland; former Minister of Education, Delft, NETHERLANDS

Mr Rob van der Horst, Director, EIM Business & Policy Research, Zoetermeer, NETHERLANDS

Mr Dieter Ibielski, Presidential Counsellor, Union of Small & Medium Companies, GERMANY

Ms Caroline Jenner, CEO, JA-YE Europe, Junior Achiever International, Brussels, BELGIUM

Prof Anders Lundstrom, President, Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research, SWEDEN

Ms Simona Marzetti, Secretary General-INSME Ass. & Director of Inst. Cooperation, IPI, ITALY

Mr Hans-Werner Mueller, former Secretary General, UEAPME, BELGIUM

Ms Ann Penistan, International Trade Centre, UN Agency, Geneva, SWITZERLAND

Mr Benne van Popta, Director, International Affairs, MKB Royal Dutch Ass. of SMEs, NETHERLANDS

Mr Joep Rats, Director, MKB Royal Dutch Association of SMEs, Delft, NETHERLANDS

Ms Lorraine Ruffing, former Head, Enterprise Dev. Branch, UNCTAD, Geneva, SWITZERLAND

Mr Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer, Secretary General, ZDH, GERMANY

Ms Tina Sommer, Chairman Int. Affairs, FSB, England, President, ESBA, BELGIUM

Mr Frederic Soudain, Secretariat, ESBA, European Small Business Alliance, Brussels, BELGIUM

Prof Roy Thurik, Prof. of Economics & Entrep’ship, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS

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