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The International Forum for Investor Education (IFIE) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) will hold their seventh annual global investor education conference next week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Taking place 18-20 May 2015 at the Hilton Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, the event will include expert investor education perspectives from every region around the world.
With the theme "Financial Capability and Investor Engagement: Goals, Strategies and Outcomes,” the 2015 conference will examine the evolution of the investor education field, and the way in which diverse stakeholders can succeed at increasing financial capability nationally, regionally and globally.
Key session topics, workshops and panels at the 2015 event will include: Defining/Redefining Roles of Regulators, SROs, and Central Banks in FC/IE Agenda Work; The Roles of Private and Financial Sectors in FC/IE Agenda Work; Behavioural Economics Implementation in FC/IE; and FC/IE Implementation Challenges in Growth and Emerging Market Jurisdictions.
Confirmed speakers at the conference will include:
- IOSCO Secretary General David Wright;
- IFIE Chair Paul Andrews, Vice President, International, Financial Industry Regulator Authority (FINRA), U.S.;
- Ranjit Ajit Singh, Chairman, Securities Commission Malaysia;
- Emsley Tromp, President, Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten;
- Lori Schock, Director, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Co-Chair, IFIE/IOSCO 2015 Conference Programme Committee;
- Michael Herndon, Consumer Outreach Officer, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and Co-Chair, IFIE/IOSCO 2015 Conference Programme Committee;
- Flore-Anne Messy, Deputy Head, Financial Affairs Division, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD);
- David Kneebone, General Manager, Hong Kong Investor Education Centre;
- Sujatha Sekhar Naik, Chief Executive Officer, The Securities Industry Dispute Resolution Center (SIDREC), Malaysia
- Robert Stammers, Director of Investor Education, CFA Institute, and chair, IFIE/IOSCO 2013 Conference Programme Committee;
- Gerri Walsh, President, Investor Education Foundation, FINRA, and senior vice president, FINRA Office of Investor Education, FINRA.
For more information on the 2015 conference, including registration and the full programme, go to www.ifie.org/2015conference
