Jay Rosengard

Lecturer in Public Policy
Director, Financial Sector Program,
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Office Address
124 Mt. Auburn - Suite 520N-504
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 130
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-8751
Fax: 384-9451
Email: jay_rosengard@harvard.edu
Assistant
Jessica Eykholt (617-496-0264)
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 currently 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).

Rosengard is also Faculty Chair of both the FIPED (Financial Institutions for Private Enterprise Development) Executive Program, which focuses on sustainable and effective microfinance and SME (small and medium enterprise) finance, and the COMTAX (Comparative Tax Policy and Administration) Executive Program, which addresses key strategic and tactical issues in tax design and implementation.

Courses

Fall

  • PED-210 Public Finance in Theory and Practice

Year

  • PED-250Y Second-Year Policy Analysis Seminar

Media Expertise

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Research

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

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Rosengard, Jay K., Richard H. Patten, Don E. Johnston, and Widjojo Koesoemo. "The Promise and the Peril of Microfinance Institutions in Indonesia." Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 43.1 (April 2007): 87-112.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Rosengard, Jay K. "¿Qué Pasó? Failure of the Commercial Financial Sector to Deliver Microfinance Services in Mexico." Paper Presented at the Forum on Microfinance, Monterrey, Mexico, November 2007.
    • Rosengard, Jay K., with Bui Van, Huynh The Du, Vu Pham Tin, Fang Xu, and Mochamad Pasha. "Paying for Urban Infrastructure and Services: A Comparative Study of Municipal Finance in Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, and Jakarta." UNDP Viet Nam and the Institute for Economic Research HCMC, June 2007.