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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.
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