The World Bank Group’s first industrial pollution prevention guidelines were written by then-IFC VP for Engineering Mak Dehejia. Mr. Dehejia --who was to become IFC’s VP for Corporate Business Development (1992-1994)-- admits that his conversion to pollution prevention was a long time in coming. Mr. Dehejia’s post-IFC focus is the Industrial Ecology Institute --a foundation he established to further industrial environmental sustainability. View short video clip or the full interview.
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Former IFC VP of Operations Wilfried Kaffenberger (1992-1996), recalled in a recent interview how IFC established the first financial institution to introduce commercial paper to the Korean market. He also described a cold winter night in Russia in 1991-1992, when the IFC team he led helped a young Russian minister shape the country’s first privatization deal ever. Mr. Kaffenberger is currently a fund managing director and CEO with Emerging Market Partners Global.
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By his own admission, former IFC VP Investment Operations Jamil Kassum grew up at IFC (1975-2000), on the front lines of the many “leaps forward” achieved by the Corporation in the decades spanning the tenures of WBG presidents Robert McNamara and James Wolfensohn. Kassum, whose latest position was as a World Bank regional VP, says the real quantum leap for IFC is still ahead.
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Juan Camilo Ochoa is president of Suramericana, a Colombian business group with diverse interests in the financial and manufacturing sectors. When his country was mired in tough economic times in 2001, he turned to IFC for new financing. The result, he explains, was an innovative financial package that has supported Suramericana’s and Colombia’s impressive turnaround since.
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During his tenure at IFC in the 1980s, Antoine Van Agtmael created the world’s first "emerging markets" investment fund in developing countries, coining the term in the process. Van Agtmael tells IFC how he came up with the term, a turning point in the successful launch of investment funds in developing countries.
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In 1999, starting a $35 million steel plant expansion in Kenya sounded like a pipedream. But IFC believed in the project’s sponsor, Singapore’s Comcraft Group. As Comcraft’s Praful Chandaria explains, IFC’s loan was a key to the success of Mabati Rolling Mills - now East Africa's largest flat steel producer and winner of numerous “company of the year” awards in Kenya.
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IFC has been involved in launching the very first leasing companies in 25 different countries. Among them is Bangladesh’s Industrial Development Leasing Co. CEO Anis Khan says collaboration with IFC was critical to building his organization.
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Hanny Sutanto, CEO of the Wings Group in Indonesia, believes every crisis also carries an opportunity. In his case, IFC's long-term financing helped him weather the Asian financial crisis in 1997.
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