Presentations at the Turin Round Table on the Impact of the Global Crisis on SME and Entrepreneurship Financing and Policy Responses

The Round table was attended by 138 participants. Participants came from 37 countries/ economies (27 member countries and the EC, 3 observers to the Working party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship, 7 non-members). Participants came from:

Presentations

The following Presentations/ written speeches were presented at the Turin Round Table. They are listed in the order of their presentation and seperated by session and panel.

Session 1

Views by International Organisations

• Mr. Diego Rodriguez Palenzuela, Head of the Capital Markets/ Financial Structure Division, Directorate General Economics, ECB
• Mr. Karl-Friedrich Cordewener, Deputy Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Views by SMEs and Entrepreneurs

• Mr. Jari Huovinen, Advisor, SME Affairs, Confederation of Finnish Industries
• Mr. Alexander Lopatin, Presidium member of OPORA RUSSIA
• Ms. Carmen Ayllón, Director of the SMEs Support Division, Council of Spanish Chambers of Commerce
• Mr. William Dunkelberg, Chief Economist, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), United States (presentation)
• Mr. William Dunkelberg, Chief Economist, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), USA (written speech)
• Ms. Alicia Robb, Senior Research Fellow, Kauffman Foundation, USA.

Views by the Financial Sector

• Ms. Anna Hallberg, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer to ALMI Företagspartner, development bank, Sweden
• Ms. Saminee Wangtal, Senior Director, Bank of Thailand
• Mr. Marcel Roy, Secretary General, AECM

Discussion by Governments and OECD

• Mr. Sipho Zikode, Deputy Director-General, Enterprise Development, Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa
• Mr. Philippe Jeanneret, Chef du Secteur Politique PME, Département fédéral de l'économie DFE, Secrétariat d'Etat à l'économie SECO, Switzerland (only available in French)
• Mr. Andrey Sharov, Head of the Department of State Regulation in the Economy, Ministry of Economic Development, Federation of Russia

Session 2

Views by Governments and OECD

• Mr. Christian Fournet, Directeur de l'évaluation des études, OSEO, France (only available in French)
• Mr. Jinhyung Kim, Director General, Small and Medium Business Administration, Korea
• Mr. Daniel Van Der Schans, Economist, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), UK
• Mr. Dominique Guellec, Principle Administrator, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, (DSTI), OECD

Views by the Financial Sector

• Mr. Sulaiman Arif Arianto, Managing Director for SMEs, Bank Rakyat, Indonesia
• Mr. Mikhail Mamuta, President of the Russian Microfinance Centre (RMC)
• Mr. Richard Pelly, Chief Executive, European Investment Fund (EIF)

Discussion by SMEs and Entrepreneurs of the Reported Responses to the Crisis

• Ms. Christina Sommer, President, European Small Business Alliance, UK

Session 3

Views by the Financial Sector

• Mr. Jeong-Suk Koh, President, Ilshin Investment Co. Ltd, Korea
• Mr. Enrique Blanco, Deputy Director of Cooperation and Second Floor Banking, Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Spain

Views by Governments

• Mr. Bayram Mecit, Vice-President of KOSGEB, Small and Medium Industry Development Organisation of Turkey