Speaker Details
Jane Nelson
Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Jane Nelson is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Business and Government and Director of the school's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. She is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and serves as a Director at the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF). During 2001 she worked in the office of the UN Secretary-General preparing a report for the United Nations General Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the private sector. Prior to joining the IBLF, Jane was a Vice President at Citibank and responsible for marketing for the bank's Worldwide Securities Services business and Financial Institutions Group in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. She has worked for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Africa preparing a report for the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and for FUNDES (Fundación para desarrollo sostenible) in Latin America undertaking research on small enterprise development. Jane has authored four books and over 60 reports, papers, book chapters and articles on public-private partnerships and the changing role of business in society, especially in emerging markets, and co-authored five of the World Economic Forum's Global Corporate Citizenship reports. She serves on the boards of the World Environment Center, the ImagineNations Group, the International Council of Toy Industries CARE process, Volans, and the UK Environment Foundation, and on advisory groups or steering committees for UNDPs Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Instituto Ethos in Brazil, the World Economic Forums Business Alliance Against Chronic Hunger, and the International Council of Mining and Metals Resource Endowment Initiative.
