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Jane Nelson, Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard's Kennedy School
Jane Nelson is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, at Harvard's Kennedy School. 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. 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 in Latin America on small enterprise development.
Jane has authored four books and numerous other publications on public-private partnerships and the changing role of business, and co-authored four of the World Economic Forum's Global Corporate Citizenship reports. She serves on the advisory councils or boards of several international organizations, including the World Environment Center, the ImagineNations Group, the Initiative for Global Development, 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.