New York University will host the First Annual Forum on Financial Access on February 1, 2008. The conference is organized by the Financial Access Initiative (FAI), in collaboration with student groups from NYU, Yale, and Harvard, and sponsored by the Economist magazine.
Agenda:
9:00 – 9:15 Registration
9:15 – 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 – 11:00 Directors Plenary Panel:
"Demand, Impact and the Psychology of Poor Households" Featuring Jonathan Morduch, Dean Karlan and Sendhil Mullainathan
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Student Debates
Moderated by Matthew Bishop, The Economist
(To enter, email contact@financialaccess.org for details)
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch and Plenary Panel:
"Ideas to Policy" Featuring Michael Kremer, David Porteous and Diana Taylor
1:30 – 2:00 Closing Remarks: Policy to Action
For a more detailed agenda, please visit Financial Access Initiative's website. Please note that the conference has a $10 entrance fee, collected at the door (current Wagner students are eligible for a fee waiver. Please specify "Wagner" when registering).
Fri., Feb. 1, 2008
9 am - 2 pm
Location:
The Douglas B. and Joseph H. Gardner Commons
Henry Kaufman Management Center
44 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012
Click here to register.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
First Annual Forum on Financial Access
