Steve Rozner
Steve Rozner, Senior Partner and Global Practice Lead for Public Financial Management at PMCG, has over 20 years of experience in fiscal policy, governance reform, and public sector modernization across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He has held senior advisory roles with international aid agencies and global development firms, focusing on domestic resource mobilization, public financial management, and debt sustainability.
Before joining PMCG, Steve served in senior advisory roles at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where he advised agency leadership on debt sustainability, led development of USAID’s Domestic Resource Mobilization Strategy, and managed over $100 million in fiscal governance programming. Earlier, he held leadership positions at DAI Global LLC, managing a $75 million governance portfolio and leading multinational teams delivering complex public finance reform programs.
Steve has extensive experience in tax and fiscal policy, revenue administration, budget systems, fiscal decentralization, and debt management. He has led or contributed to reform programs across more than 30 countries, including major fiscal transformation efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Jordan, and the Philippines. His work has shaped over $400 million in public finance investments, delivering measurable improvements in revenue mobilization, budget execution rates, and fiscal transparency.
Steve has been recognized for translating complex economic insights into actionable policy recommendations. At USAID, he was a key thought leader behind the agency’s Financing Self-Reliance initiative and its global response to debt sustainability challenges. He also co-developed diagnostic tools for benchmarking tax systems, debt transparency, and tax compliance costs and authored numerous publications on domestic resource mobilization and monitoring and evaluating public finance performance.
Steve holds a master’s degree in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Middlebury College. He is a trained Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) assessor and is fluent in English and proficient in Chinese.