Social Enterprise Annual Conference

Senior Fellow and Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Harvard Kennedy School

Jane Nelson was one of the five track leaders for the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009, where she lead the track on Developing Human Capital. She was a Director at the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum for sixteen years, where she now serves as a senior advisor. In 2001, she worked with the UN Global Compact in the office of the UN Secretary-General and prepared a report for the General Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the private sector. Prior to that, Nelson worked for the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Africa, for FUNDES in Latin America and as a Vice President at Citibank working in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She has co-authored four books and over 60 publications on the role of business in society and five of the World Economic Forum's Global Corporate Citizenship reports. She earned a BSc degree from the University of Natal in South Africa and an MA from Oxford University. She is a former Rhodes Scholar and recipient of the Keystone Center's 2005 Leadership in Education Award.