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Leonardo B. Rosario is the Executive Director of Trowel Development Foundation, a not-for-profit, non-government organization established in June 2003 in Norhern Samar and registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission and the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

His work involves providing community development and management services as well as developing programs and projects that help marginalized rural sectors and peoples particularly the small agricultural producers, small-scale fishers, rural women, and the rural youth.

Among the projects that he developed include the ISLA CORAL Program, SHARE A LIFE Project, Coconut Farm Development Program, and the project "Fishing communities seek security in aquaculture and mangrove restoration."

After his job as a research assistant and agricultural extension worker at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1984, Leonardo B. Rosario joined the Peasant Movement as a technical staff for socio-economic projects during which time he became one of the first advocates of sustainable agriculture practice in the Philippines.

As an agrarian reform and rural development practitioner for more than 20 years, he became consultant to the Secretary of the Philippine Department of Agrarian Reform where he provided technical assistance and advice on project development and management as well as on mobilization of agrarian reform communities. Leonardo B. Rosario is a productive development manager with his original projects having been adjudged winners in the United Nations Development Programme Equator Prize 2010 held in New York City and the World Bank Development Marketplace 2009 Global Competition on Climate Adaptation held in Washington DC.

He also joined the World Bank Philippines Development Marketplace Project Grant Competition on Governance and was selected one of the 33 winners out of more than 500 projects that competed in 2008. In 2004, he was one of the four in Asia that won the Call for Proposals of New Zealand Aid Asian Development Assistance Facility.

As to his education, Leonardo B. Rosario obtained his undergraduate degree in agricultural engineering and graduate diploma in community development from the University of the Philippines. He also earned a certificate in Ecological Documentation from Nordic Folkhogskola Biskops Arno in Balsta, Sweden.

As regards work experience, he has been engaged for more than 20 years in the practice of community organizing, project development and management, natural resources conservation, social enterprise development, and local governance among others.

Leonardo B. Rosario is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the United Nations Development Programme Equator Prize 2012, Chairperson of the Northern Samar Seaweed Industry Development Council, and Member of Bililarosa Protected Area Management Board of Northern Samar.

He is Secretary of the Board of Directors of RSB Services Foundation based in Fairfax, Virginia. and Co-Chair of Chamber 5 and Member of the Steering Board of Roundtable on  Sustainable Biofuels based at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Swtizerland.

Leonardo B. Rosario is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Juan Sumulong High School Quezon City Alumni Association, a position he will hold until 2013.