Jane Nelson
Jane Nelson
Director
Jane is the founding director of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a nonresident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution.
She serves on the Boards of Directors of Newmont and the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative and as an emeritus director of the World Environment Center. She is on the Stewardship Board of the World Economic Forum’s Food Systems Initiative and on the Forum’s Global Future Council (GFC) on Transparency and Anti-Corruption, and was previously co-chair of the Forum’s GFC on Food Systems Innovation. She serves on advisory councils for Abbott Laboratories, Bank of America, ExxonMobil, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, APCO Worldwide, Griffith Foods, Business Fights Poverty, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, and the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform. Over the past two decades she has served on a variety of other boards and advisory councils for companies, nonprofit organizations and governments, with a focus on the areas of international development, sustainability and ESG, sustainable finance, mining and energy, and global health, nutrition and agriculture.
Nelson was a director and senior adviser at The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (later IBLF) from 1993 to 2012. She has worked in the UN Secretary-General’s office on a secondment with the UN Global Compact, preparing the Secretary-General’s report to the General Assembly on UN-business partnerships in 2001, with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, with FUNDES in Latin America, and as a Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group at Citibank, working in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.
Nelson has authored or co-authored five books and over 100 publications on the role of the private sector and partnerships in sustainable development. She has been a visiting lecturer for the Schwarzman Scholars program affiliated with Tsinghua University, a senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Le
