The Annual Islamic Finance Conference (The AIFC) is a Ministry of Finance annual event that brings together policy makers, economists, academics, and private sector to discuss various key Islamic finance, economic and development issues particularly for Indonesia. The purpose of AIFC are to discuss and exchange new ideas and information among experts. Previously, the AIFC was held in Jakarta in 2016, Yogyakarta in 2017, and Makassar in 2018.
This year, the 4th AIFC was held on July 24-25, 2019 in JW Marriot Hotel Surabaya. It would raise an interesting topic that already became a global interest: impact investing. The topic also in line with the government concern to determine the impact of investment which already spent, in social, finance, and environment. This conference also parallel with call for paper event to gather papers which have a high quality and is expected to become references by the academia and policy makers particularly related in the economy and Islamic finance.
Along with high-profile speakers such as Sri Mulyani (Minister of Finance Indonesia), Prof. Bambang Bodjonegoro (Minister of National Development Planning, Republic of Indonesia, and Chairman of Indonesian Association of Islamic Economist), Dr. Walid Abdelwahab (Director-General, Country Relations and Services Islamic Development Bank), and several notable speakers in this event, David Soukhasing, ANGIN’s Managing Director delivered a keynote presentation titled “Leveraging Private Finance for Public Good”.
His presentation can be downloaded here.
