Michael Pomerleano
Lead Financial Sector Specialist
Financial Sector and Operations Department
World Bank

Mr. Michael Pomerleano is the Program Manager for the World Bank's Financial Sector Learning Program. He is Lead Financial Specialist with a joint appointment in the Financial Sector Development Department and the World Bank Institute. Michael was instrumental in developing the integrated Financial Sector Learning Program. He has extensive operational financial experience in Asia and in Transitional Economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, advising governments, central banks and commercial banks on financial sector reform on behalf of the World Bank. Mr. Pomerleano is co-director of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Brookings Institute annual conference on Financial Markets and Development. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked in the supervision and regulation division the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, served as managing partner of MBC Associates (an owner-operator of commercial real estate) and the National Banking Group of Citicorp. He received his MA in Business Economics, a joint degree awarded by the Harvard Business School and Harvard Economics Department. His recent publications include Asset Price Bubbles: Implications for Monetary, Regulatory, and International Policies, Curt Hunter, George Kaufman and Michael Pomerleano, eds. (Boston: MIT Press, 2002), Development and Regulation of Non-Bank Financial Institutions by Jeffrey Carmichael and Michael Pomerleano (Washington: World Bank, 2002), Open Doors: Foreign Participation in Financial Systems in Developing Countries by Robert E. Litan, Paul Masson and Michael Pomerleano, eds. (Washington: Brookings Institute Press, 2001), What do Foreign Banks do? by Michael Pomerleano and George Vojta, (2001), Managing Financial and Corporate Distress by Charles Adams, Robert E. Litan and Michael Pomerleano, eds. (Washington: Brookings Institute, 2000).