Hong Kong Disneyland Resort
In November 1999, Rowse negotiated the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort deal on behalf of the government in which the government became the park's largest shareholder; he then set up InvestHK, and was appointed its Director General on 1 July 2000. As head of the agency, he became involved in HarbourFest, an event to promote Hong Kong in the aftermath of the SARS outbreak in 2003 which became a political scandal.