Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) will be held in Istanbul Congress Center (ICC) on 10 May 2011. The conference is organized by UN Global Compact, UNEP Finance Initiative and Principles for Responsible Investment.

There will be a session on Sustainable portfolio investment and finance in LDCs and Sabanci University Corporate Governance Forum Director Dr. Melsa Ararat will give a speech about the best and emerging practices for investing into frontier markets and least developed countries (LDCs). She will also focus on the various sources of capital and investment into LDCs and on how institutional investors could go about assessing the impact of investments into EM or LDCs.

Together with Melsa Ararat, there will be speakers from IFC, International Organization on Migration (IOM) Turkey and Government Employees Pension Fund, South Africa.

For detailed information: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/ldc/home