Mr. Harold Rosen
Director, CSMDR
International Finance Corporation
2121 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20433, USA

Harold Rosen is director of the World Bank/International Finance Corporation (IFC) department for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). He has been a strong proponent for SMEs and has considerable experience in this area. Before being appointed to this position in March of 2000, he was director of IFC's Central and Southern Europe department, where he established the Balkans Enterprise Facility and other wholesaling approaches to financing and advising SMEs, especially in frontier markets. From 1992–1997 he was manager for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, starting IFC's operations in Indochina, which included the establishment of the Mekong Project Development Facility and the Mekong Financing Line. He also restructured and managed IFC's South Pacific Project Facility, and established the Pacific Islands Investment Facility. Mr. Rosen also played a lead role in several IFC and Bank Group-wide initiatives, such as the task force on Bank Group operations in the former Soviet Union. As IFC's manager for financial planning and policy he the agency's $1 billion 1991 capital increase. He worked on investments in Africa and Latin America earlier in his career. Mr. Rosen joined the Bank Group as a Young Professional in 1978. He holds a master's and bachelor's degrees in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.