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Consultant Profile: John (Jack) R. Sustman (United States)
Contact Details
| Total Relevant Experience: |
9 years |
| Date Available for Work: |
23 Jan 2006 |
| Type of Work: |
Short-term work |
| Summary of Qualifications: |
Academic background focused on international relations and business management. Early employment centered on small-business lending and credit evaluation in US. International work focuses on enterprise development in transition and developing countries. Scholarship centers on sociology of banking, efficiency of financial intermediation, and effectiveness of monetary policy. Policy experience includes work at prime ministerial, national bank governor, action commission, and civic society levels. Combine theoretical innovation, practical experience, policy design, and lobbying acumen. |
Expertise
| Main Areas of Expertise: |
MFI regulation / Donor policy / Project design |
| Country Experience: |
Poland / Romania / United States |
| Languages Spoken: |
English / French |
| Nationality: |
United States |
| Academic/Professional Qualifications: |
Bachelor of Arts/History, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA, 1979
Master of Business Adminstration, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA, 1981. |
Experience (5 select experiences)
(Informal Consultant - unpaid), (The World Bank), United States (September - October 1998)
Developed a proposal for an Emergency Liquidity Facility to be used to counter the effects of the international financial crisis of autumn 1998; SME and microenterprise "lender-of-last-resort" financing in emerging markets would be channeled though specially designated and approved SME- and microfinance lenders, with funding to be made available through World Bank/IMF-backed capital market bond issuance. Proposal was brought by World Bank to emergency crisis summit in Jakarta, October 1998.
Database Expert, (unpaid - International Monetary Fund), United States (1997 - present)
Prepared papers and consulted on microfinance and its relationship to macroeconomic policy; helped influence the IMF, in conjunction with the World Bank, to institute "Financial Sector Assessment Programs" for member countries, 1999.
Head, Poland for the 21st century group, (unpaid - Center for Strategic and Int'l Studies), United States (Aujust 2000 - May 2001)
Developed a broad-based growth proposal for the Government of Poland, entitled "Poland in the 21st century: Investment, Enterprise, and Employment", which included three distinct strategies to accelerate economic growth while maintaining monetary stringency.
Managing Director, Institute for Enterprise Finance, United States (1997 - present)
Microfinance policy research and development. (For specific assignments and impact see below.)
Managing Director, Symbolic Systems, Inc., Romania (February 1998 - July 2000)
Developed an Official Action Proposal for the Governor of the National Bank of Romania, called the "Microfinance Registration and Certification Process", 12/15/99; initiated awareness of microfinance regulation even though project was not implemented after having been accepted by NBR and US-Romania Action Commission. Action Commission activities also included roles as Chairman of Banking and Capital Formation Group and Chairman of Enterprise Development Working Group.
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