Henry R. Jackelen

Henry R. Jackelen is the United Nations Resident Representative to Bulgaria.

Mr. Jackelen was the United Nations Resident Representative to Paraguay from 2003 to 2008.

Mr. Jackelen was previously the Deputy Resident Representative of PNUD in Brazil.

Mr. Jackelen has been working in the field of enterprise and financial sector development, microfinance and entrepreneurship for over 15 years in all regions of the developing world. He began his career as a banker with Bank Boston in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1973-1979) where he held several positions leading up to being the head of lending operations of the Rio branch.

Since 1981 Mr. Jackelen has worked in the field of economic development with the World Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, USAID, NGOs, and other donors. He joined the United Nations Development Programme in 1989 first as a Senior Technical Advisor with United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). After a leave of absence to work with the private sector in South Africa to create a bank for low-income populations, he rejoined UNDP in the Private Sector Development Programme, which he has headed since 1995. This unit supports the work of UNDP in three basic areas: 1) Engaging the Global Private Sector; 2) Promoting Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Development; 3) Microfinance. Since September 1997 Mr. Jackelen has also established and headed the Special Unit for Microfinance which has ongoing operations in over 40 countries and also supports UNDP activities globally.

Publications include: Banking on the Informal Sector, 1989 - ITPUB; Towards a Market Oriented Approach to Microfinance (with E. Rhyne) 1991; Small Enterprise Journal - ITPUB; A Guide for Interviewing Small Scale Enterprises - ATI; Financing Entrepreneurship in Countries in Transition: Some Short-term Recommendations - UN 1994; Building Banking From Below: (Small Enterprise Journal 1999). He also conceived, coordinated and co-wrote: MicroStart - A Guide for Planning, Starting and Managing a Microfinance Programme (Version 1.0) - which is currently available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic (Portuguese forthcoming) from Pact Publications."

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