 Jane Nelson is the Director
of the Harvard Kennedy School's CSR Initiative,
and a Senior Fellow at the school's
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business &
Government. She serves as a Director at the
Prince of Wales International Business Leaders
Forum (IBLF) and is a non-resident Senior Fellow
of the Brookings Institution. During 2001 she
worked in the office of the UN
Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, preparing a report
for the United Nations General Assembly on
cooperation between the UN and the private
sector, which supported the first UN resolution
on such cooperation. 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 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 50 fifty 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 four of the
World Economic Forum's Global Corporate
Citizenship reports. She serves on the advisory
councils or boards of the World Environment
Center, the ImagineNations Group, the Initiative
for Global Development, the International
Council of Toy Industries CARE process, the 21st
Century Trust, the U.K. Environment Foundation,
Instituto Ethos in Brazil, the International
Council of Mining and Metals Resource Endowment
Initiative, and on the faculty for Cambridge
University’s ‘Business and
Poverty’ leadership program. She has a BSc.
Agricultural Economics from the University of
Natal, South Africa, and an MA Politics,
Philosophy and Economics, from Oxford
University, and has been a Rhodes Scholar, a
Rotary International student, a fellow of the
21st Century Trust, an Aspen Institute scholar,
and recipient of the Keystone Center's 2005
‘Leadership in Education’ Award.
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