Jay Rosengard

Lecturer in Public Policy
Director, Financial Sector Program
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Office Address
124 Mt. Auburn - Suite 200N-220
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 74
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-8751
Fax: 384-9451
Email: jay_rosengard@harvard.edu
Assistant
Jean Dombrowski (617-495-1320)
Jay Rosengard

Profile

Jay Rosengard, Lecturer in Public Policy, has 30 years of international experience designing, implementing, and evaluating development policies in: public finance and fiscal strategy, tax reform, municipal finance and management, intergovernmental fiscal relations, banking and financial institutions development, microfinance, management information systems, monitoring and evaluation, human resource development, and public administration. He has worked for a wide variety of multilateral and bilateral donors, as well as directly for host governments and private sector clients. Rosengard is Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government's Financial Sector Program, which focuses on the development of bank and nonbank financial institutions and alternative financing instruments. This includes microfinance (small-scale lending and local savings mobilization), mainstream commercial banking (general and special-purpose banks), and wholesale financial intermediation (municipal development funds, venture capital funds, pooled financing, secondary mortgage facilities, and securitization). In addition, Rosengard is a Faculty Affiliate of both the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for International Development. He also serves as Faculty Chair of three executive programs: FIPED (Financial Institutions for Private Enterprise Development), which focuses on sustainable and effective microfinance and SME (small and medium enterprise) finance; COMTAX (Comparative Tax Policy and Administration), which addresses key strategic and tactical issues in tax design and implementation; and VELP (Vietnam Executive Leadership Program), which is an innovative policy dialogue with senior Vietnamese leadership.

Courses

Fall

  • PED-210 Public Finance in Theory and Practice

Media Expertise

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Rosengard, Jay K., and Do Ngoc Huynh. "Vietnam Land and Buildings Tax." Vietnam Ministry of Finance Policy Advisory Group, March 2008.
    • Rosengard, Jay K. "Innovative Real Estate Taxes and Fees to Finance Municipal Public Infrastructure and Services in Vietnam." Vietnam Ministry of Finance Policy Advisory Group, August 2008.