Snapshot: Jane Nelson is a leading international authority on the role of business in responding to a broad range of social-economic and environmental challenges. In a diverse career, she has worked in agricultural development, banking and sustainable development. Key areas of interest include the role of business in international development, the Millennium Development Goals, corporate governance, social enterprise, the role of the private sector in peace-building and youth development and youth enterprise.
She has been a long-standing of the SustainAbility Council and Faculty. She has been a Rhodes Scholar, a Rotary International student, a Fellow of the 21st Century Trust, a nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, and a recipient of the Keystone Center’s 2005 ‘Leadership in Education’ Award. Among her many publications, the book Profits With Principles stands out, co-authored with Ira Jackson.
Organisation: Senior Fellow and Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Website: www.hks.harvard.edu
Volans in a word: “Discovery.”
