Presentations

Risks for Small Hydro Projects - Bhoruka Power has set up several small hydro projects and shared the risks associated.

Financing for Solar home systems - Shri K.M. Udupa, ex-Syndicate Bank has been one of the pioneers in providing rural financing for solar home systems.

Ben Lashkari – Swiss Re

Mr. Lashkari is a Director in the Environmental and Commodity Markets (ECM) unit of Capital Management and Advisory group of Swiss Re Financial Services in New York. He is responsible for global Emissions desk covering traded products, structured/funding/capital markets products and insurance products for carbon and Nox and Sox markets.

He has more than twenty years of experience in risk management, insurance/reinsurance and capital markets. Ben’s focus has been on Alternative Risk Transfer solutions, electricity price and outage protection, weather derivatives, capital adequacy (operational, market and credit) and principal protection products, natural catastrophe modeling, and exchange/clearing counterparty credit products.

Mr. Lashkari holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.