Jane Nelson

Jane Nelson is Director of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She serves on the Boards of Directors of Newmont, the Abraaj Group, FSG, and Chevron's Niger Delta Partnership Initiative, and on advisory councils for the International Finance Corporation, Bank of America, Abbott, ExxonMobil, GE, Pearson, APCO Worldwide, the Center for Global Development and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center.

She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Stewardship Board on Food Security and Agriculture and WEF’s Global Future Council on International Governance, Public-Private Cooperation and Sustainable Development. She previously served on the Boards of SITA (now part of Suez Environnment), the World Environment Center and the International Council of Toy Industries CARE initiative. Nelson was a director and then senior advisor at the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum from 1993 to 2012, and a senior associate with the Institute for Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University.

In 2009, she was led the track on human capital for the Clinton Global Initiative, and in 2001, she worked with the United Nations Global Compact in the office of the UN Secretary-General preparing his report for the General Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the private sector. Prior to 1993, Nelson worked for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Africa, for FUNDES in Latin America, and as a Vice President at Citibank working for the bank's Financial Institutions Group in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

She has co-authored five books and over 90 publications on the role of the private sector in sustainable development, and five of the World Economic Forum's Global Corporate Citizenship reports. She is a former Rhodes Scholar, and recipient of the Keystone Center's 2005 Leadership in Education Award and the Academy of Management’s 2015 Best Book Award for the Social Issues in Management Division.