For those of you who are wishing to post comments during the forum, we have set up a twitter feed at financialinclusion. So youre welcome to make any comments that you would like. So there are nearly two billion adults globally who do not have Bank Accounts. This makes it very difficult to Access Financial services, pay bills or transfer money to relatives. In addition, it is hard in those circumstances to be an entrepreneur when you are outside the formal Financial System. Its difficult to gain access to capital or form a business when you lack basic Financial Services. But the good news is that many nations have made commitments to expanding Financial Services for the poor. They understand the Financial Inclusion is vital to Economic Development and social inclusion. As a result they are developing Financial Inclusion policies and implementing a new frame works that encourage inclusion. So today robin lewis, john, and myself are launching our third annual brookings scorecard measurin
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Thank you, are there any other members of the public for general Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and we are adjourned. [gavel] good afternoon everyone and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, april 25, 2017. Mdm. Clerk please call roll call thank you read present, cohen, present, farrell, present, fewer present, kim, present, paskinjordan present, ronen present, safai present, genji present, tang present, yee present. Mme. Pres. All members are present. Thank you ladies and gentlemen please join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] b thank you everyone. Mme. Clerk any communications . I have none to report colleagues any changes to the march 14, 2017 Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, is there a motion to approve those minutes . Moved by supervisor farrell. Seconded by supervisor tran view. Colleagues can we take that without objection . Without objection those Meeting Minutes will be passed after Public Comments.
[applause] thank you are coming. Its my pleasure to introduce to you, commissioner michael bueller. He was appointed to the Security Commission by president obama and is sworn in an august 2013. He was delegated by President Trump to be in german in that capacity from january 23rd of this year to may 4th. His term expires in june 2018. Previously, dr. Pirowar worked at the sec in the office of Economic Analysis with the division of economic and risk analysis as an academic scholar from iowa state university. He was a professor of finance at iowa state university, earned a ba in Foreign Service in International Politics that can take an from georgetown and phd from penn state. Today we are not going to have a set presentation, but instead a formal question and answer format. Im going to ask mr. Pirowar a number of questions and then we will open it up to the audience so you all can participate in the discussion. Commissioner pirowar come with the new chairman of the securities and Excha
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and the Louis Lehrman auditorium. Welcome to those that join us on the website on all of these occasions and for those here in the house we would ask a courtesy check to see that the various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off and for those watching online youre welcome to send comments anytime by emailing the speaker. Leading the conversation this afternoon is David Perkins senior fellow for Economic Policy at the institute for economic freedom. Before joining heritage he served as the general counsel witgeneral counselwith the natis association and seven chief Financial Officer and general counsel of the alliance for retirement prosperity and was a part or at the growth of Public Policy and government relations. Please join me in welcoming david. [applause] thank you for coming. Its my pleasure to introduce to you the commissioner michael buehler. He was appointed to the securities and Exchange Commission by president oba