Martin M. Rosen was born in 1919 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1940 and received a master's degree in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1941.
Following service in the U.S. military during World War II, Rosen joined the World Bank in 1946. He served as Assistant to the Director of the Economic Staff; Assistant Director of the Department of Operations - Europe, Africa and Australasia; Assistant Director of the Department of Technical Operations; and Director of the Department of Operations - Far East. In 1961, he became the Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a position he held until he resigned from the World Bank in 1969.
After leaving the World Bank Group, Rosen became president of the First Washington Securities Corporation, an investment banking company.
Rosen died in 1984.
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This fonds consists principally of photographic prints that are housed in photo albums, an envelope, and a scrapbook. Photographs and textual records in this collection document various events that Martin Rosen attended during his tenure at the World Bank and IFC. Examples of those events are the signing of the IFC-FEMSA (Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V.) agreement in 1962 and Rosen's visit to West Pakistan and Korea in 1969.
Donated to the World Bank by Judith J. Rosen, the widow of Martin M. Rosen, on January 12, 2005.
Accruals are not expected.
* See the oral history of ([Martin M. Rosen](http://oralhistory.worldbank.org/person/rosen-martin)).
* See Records of the Office of External Relations ([WB IBRD/IDA EXT](https://archivesholdings.worldbank.org/records-of-office-of-external-relations)). Specifically, see the following series: speech reference collection ([WB IBRD/IDA EXT-01](https://archivesholdings.worldbank.org/speech-reference-collection)), photograph library ([WB IBRD/IDA EXT-02]( https://archivesholdings.worldbank.org/photograph-library)), support and communications of the Office of the President and senior staff ([WB IBRD/IDA EXT-04](https://archivesholdings.worldbank.org/support-and-communications-of-the-office-of-the-president-and-senior-staff)), external communication and production ([WB IBRD/IDA EXT-11](https://archivesholdings.worldbank.org/promotional-film-and-radio-programs)), and documentation of institutional meetings, press conferences, and other events ([WB IBRD/IDA EXT-12](https://archivesholdings.worldbank.org/audio-visual-documentation-of-bank-meetings-interviews-and-other-events)).
* See Records of the East Asian and Pacific Regional Vice Presidency ([WB IBRD/IDA EAP](https://archivesholdings.worldbank.org/records-of-east-asia-and-pacific-regional-office-vice-presidency)).
* See ([World Bank Group Timeline](https://timeline.worldbank.org/?field_timeline_target_id=6&combine=#event-bretton-woods-conference-begins)). Specifically, see ([World Bank Director Martin Rosen visits Indonesia]( https://timeline.worldbank.org/?field_timeline_target_id=All&combine=rosen#event-world-bank-director-martin-rosen-visits-indonesia)).
* See IFC history book for a history of the IFC from its origin in 1956 to 2016 - ([IFC The First Six Decades: Leading the Way in Private Sector Development](https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/CORP_EXT_Content/IFC_External_Corporate_Site/About+IFC_New/IFC+History)).
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Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.
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This series contains photo albums that were gifts commemorating Rosen's visits to various countries and International Finance Corporation (IFC) financed project sites. The photographs are largely ceremonial: Rosen at the ceremony when a country joins the IFC; Rosen at an annual meeting; Rosen at a formal dinner; and Rosen touring factories and construction sites.
An envelope of loose photographs mostly contains black-and-white photographic prints, in various sizes, that were taken primarily in Korea and Japan. It also includes two lists for the photographs taken in Korea.
There is also a copy of Hosai Hyuga's Memoir, translated from Japanese and published in 1987. The frontispiece has a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Aldewereld with the author. Simon Aldewereld was another senior figure in Bank history.
Materials in this series are arranged by event and geographic location.
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The scrapbook in this series was possibly a gift that was given to Rosen when he retired from the Bank in 1969. It contains photographs, as well as newspaper clippings, that cover Rosen's career at the World Bank and IFC.
Materials in this series are housed in nine (9) folders and arranged by page numbers.
Records are subject to the World Bank Access to Information Policy.
Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.
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