Esther Lee Rosen

External Affairs Officer

Esther Lee Rosen worked with CGAP's communication team through January 2021. She supported various CGAP initiatives to develop communications strategies that encompass a range of outreach channels including the media.

Prior to CGAP, Esther was the communications lead for the Let’s Work global partnership at the World Bank Group. Her other experiences include managing the World Economic Forum’s Values portfolio within the Center for Strategic Insight. In this role, she led a working group of thought leaders in business, politics, art and religion focused on corporate social responsibility and global issues. As Deputy Director, Esther managed congressional, corporate and multilateral relationships at the Bretton Woods Committee. Esther has also worked for the World Bank's Social Development Department on donor and partner relations, U.S. Agency for International Development focused on public-private partnerships, International Labour Organization’s Social Protection Unit and international law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom’s Banking Unit on mergers and acquisitions cases.

Esther attended the Université de Paris IV: Sorbonne, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Michigan and received graduate degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Institut de hautes etudes internationales et du développement, Genève (HEI).