About the Conference

The annual National Conference on Microfinance has become one of the most important and prestigious events for the Russian microfinance industry. It has been held every year since 2002 and has attracted hundreds of participants from Russian regions and internationally. For example, the Tenth Anniversary Conference in 2011 was attended by 540 people from more than sixty Russian regions and twenty foreign countries. Over the past three years, the Conference was in the Top Three of the Global Entrepreneurship Week campaigns held in more than 150 countries.

Over the years, the Conference has been attended by Russian and international high-profile policy-makers and public figures, including Her Royal Highness Princess Maxima of the Netherlands, the UN Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, and Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Founder of the Grameen Bank.