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H.E. Hem Vanndy
Minister of Industry, Science, Technology & Innovation
Kingdom of Cambodia
HEM Vanndy
Minister
Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology & Innovation (MISTI)—Cambodia
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Mr. HEM Vanndy’s career spans across the private sector, the United Nations system, multilateral development bank and government. He is the Minister of MISTI, and concurrently chairs the National Council of Science, Technology & Innovation, the National Council of Standards, and National Council of Accreditation of Cambodia. He also chairs the Board of Trustees of Khmer Enterprise and is a member of the Supreme National Economic Council.
Prior to his appointment as Minister of MISTI, he served as Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, looking after development financing, coordination and management of official development assistance, public debt management and supporting Cambodia’s key policy agenda. He was former Chair of the Country Coordinating Committee for the Global Fund program to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. In his early career, he was auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers, national officer at UNFPA, and country officer at the Asian Development Bank—Cambodia Resident Mission.
He obtained his Mid-Career Master of Public Administration (Mason Fellow) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Master of Arts in International Development from International University of Japan, and Bachelor of Business Administration from then National Institute of Management (Cambodia). He is married with two daughters.
Speaking At
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1:45–3:15pmTue 17 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 4Open
Shaping Tomorrow's Innovation
Policy Meets Capital: Closing the SME Finance Gap
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Amira KarimHead of International Public Policy, Payments & Financial ServicesAmazon
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Arianne FerrerHead of External Affairs, Asia-PacificTala
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Erwan GelebartChief Executive OfficerAXIAN Digibank & Fintech
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Jiang FangfangAsia Lead for Digital Financial ServiceInternational Finance Corporation
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Nontobeko LubisiDirector, Financial InclusionNational Treasury of South Africa
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Ismail RifauMinister of State for Economic Development, Transport and TradeMaldives
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Jesse McWatersEVP, Head of Global PolicyMastercard
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Syed Abdul MomenAdditional Managing Director & Head of SME BankingBRAC Bank, Bangladesh
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H.E. Hem VanndyMinister of Industry, Science, Technology & InnovationKingdom of Cambodia
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Pamela Coke-HamiltonExecutive DirectorInternational Trade CenterModerator
About this session
SMEs in developing economies face a financing gap of about US$5.7 trillion, and it is growing faster than the economies themselves. Supply alone will not close it. Policy, data and market infrastructure must develop alongside it.
This roundtable brings ministers responsible for SMEs together with leaders from payments, fintech, banking and development finance. It looks at three questions:
- Which cross-border payment and trade-finance rails would help SMEs sell abroad?
- How can governments crowd in private lending at scale?
- What role should the public sector play in enabling digital lending, including alternative data and AI credit scoring?
As a Singapore stop on the Road to Geneva, the discussion will produce priorities for the 2nd Global SME Ministerial Meeting in May 2027 and for the SME Trade Finance Facility.
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