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 John G. Ruggie, Faculty Chair; and Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs and Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School; Special Representative to the Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights, United Nations
Formerly, as Assistant Secretary-General and chief adviser for strategic planning to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, John advised the Secretary-General on the positioning of the United Nations vis-à-vis key global challenges and constituencies, including UN relations with the global business community. He was the founder of the UN Global Compact, which now involves more than 3,000 firms worldwide. He also played a lead role in preparing the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, which convened world leaders from 159 countries and led to the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals, bringing renewed energy and focus to the fight against global poverty. Prior to joining the UN, Ruggie was Dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He directed the University of California's systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He has published six books, authored more than sixty articles in scholarly journals and books, and provided numerous op-ed and TV commentaries around the world. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ruggie is a recipient of the International Studies Association's Distinguished Scholar Award for: "his contributions to the theory of International Relations and International Political Economy, his continuing engagement in the practice of world politics, and his dedication to a vision of a multilateral world." He has also received the American Political Science Association's Hubert H. Humphrey Award for "outstanding public service by a political scientist," and is regularly ranked as one of the most influential international relations scholars in the world. He has held visiting appointments at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Geneva; the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London; Beijing University; and the European University Institute in Florence. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Council of UNA-USA, and a former board member of the Foreign Policy Association. He has BA in politics and history from McMaster University in Canada, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2000, McMaster University awarded him the degree Doctor of Laws honoris causa.
 Jane Nelson, Director; and Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Business Leadership and Strategy, the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF); non-resident Senior Fellow, 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, which supported the first UN resolution on such cooperation. 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 (Fundación para desarrollo sostenible) in Latin America undertaking research on small enterprise development. Jane has authored four books and over 50 fifty reports, papers, book chapters and articles on public-private partnerships and the changing role of business in society, especially in emerging markets, and co-authored four of the World Economic Forum's Global Corporate Citizenship reports. She serves on the advisory councils or boards of the World Environment Center, the ImagineNations Group, the Initiative for Global Development, the International Council of Toy Industries CARE process, the 21st Century Trust, the U.K. Environment Foundation, Instituto Ethos in Brazil, the International Council of Mining and Metals Resource Endowment Initiative, 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.
 Jennifer Nash, Executive Director; and Director, Regulatory Policy Program, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School
Jennifer Nash is the co-editor of two books on policy innovation including Leveraging the Private Sector (2006) and Regulating from the Inside (2001). She is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology and chairs the group’s strategic planning team. She serves as a judge for the CERES/ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting (2005 and 2006) and the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care Leadership Awards (2005 and 2006). Before coming to the Kennedy School in 2001, Jennifer served as Associate Director and Acting Director of the Technology, Business, and Environment Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research addressed environmental management practices in firms and included a review of the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care initiative. She was also Program Director and Executive Director of the Clean Air Council, a leading environmental advocacy organization in the Philadelphia area. Jennifer has published in journals such as Administrative Law Review; Annual Review of Energy and the Environment; Business, Strategy, and the Environment; California Management Review; Chemistry Business Magazine; Environment; Environmental Law Reporter; Environmental Science and Technology; Issues in Science and Technology; Pollution Prevention Review; and Resources, Conservation, and Recycling. She received a Masters in City Planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 Beth Jenkins, Director of Policy Studies
Beth Jenkins leads the CSR Initiative’s Expanding Economic Opportunity Program, focusing on collaborative action and policy innovation to catalyze large-scale, systemic impact on local economic opportunities in developing countries. Before joining the CSR Initiative, she was responsible for developing and disseminating risk management concepts and capabilities at Booz Allen Hamilton, with special emphasis on the strategic risks companies face as a result of social, environmental, and international development issues. While at Booz Allen, she co-authored the CSR Initiative working papers “Social Risk as Strategic Risk” and “Investing in Social Innovation: Harnessing the Potential of Partnership Between Corporations and Social Entrepreneurs.” Ms. Jenkins also spent four years working on base-of-the-pyramid business models for companies in the technology and housing sectors at the World Resources Institute and Ashoka, both in Washington DC. She is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
 Vidya Sivan, Program Coordinator
As Program Coordinator, Vidya Sivan supports the logistics, communication and event planning needs for the Initiative. She also serves as the liaison between students and other community members and the Initiative, and is responsible for managing the initiative’s own commitment to responsible social and environmental office management and operational practices. Vidya comes to the Initiative after teaching high school history for two years at the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School. She served in the AmeriCorps program City Year from 2003-2004. Vidya has a BA in Social Studies Teaching from Gustavus Adolphus College.
 Amy Lehr, Research Fellow, Business & Human Rights
Amy Lehr is a research fellow at the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, primarily working for the mandate of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, John Ruggie. She brings a combination of legal understanding, policy analysis, and development experience to bear on issues of corporate social responsibility. She currently is helping the UN mandate define company Spheres of Influence and corporate human rights responsibilities. She will working with the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative to explore company support of public health systems. Previously, she spent several years working in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma) for development NGOs including Save the Children/USA and Ashoka. Amy is a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Harvard Law School.
 Caroline Rees, Research Fellow, Business & Human Rights (non-resident)
Caroline Rees is a Research Fellow with the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. She is working in the field of corporate accountability and human rights and leads a project focused on the development of dispute mechanisms. She is currently on leave from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Most recently she was posted at the UK’s Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, where she led the UK’s human rights negotiating team. Among other issues, she was closely involved in UN negotiations in the area of business and human rights. Her prior foreign service career covers Iran, Slovakia, the UN Security Council and the European Union. She has a BA Hons from Oxford University and an MA from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.
 David Vermijs, Research Fellow, Business & Human Rights
David Vermijs is a Research Fellow with the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. His current research is focused on business and human rights, and international and comparative political economy. In June 2007 he graduated from the Master in Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, concentrating on international relations, and business and government policy. Before coming to Harvard, he earned a BA degree in business communications (in Spanish) from Radboud University in the Netherlands, while founding and leading a national student organisation. Set in the framework of the United Nations, the organisation's mission is to create a platform for excellent students from different universities and study backgrounds to combine their ambitions with ideals in the context of public decision-making.
 Michael Wright, Research Fellow, Business & Human Rights
Michael Wright is a Research Fellow with the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. While a fellow, he co-authored the CSR Initiative working paper, "Business Recognition of Human Rights: Global Patterns, Regional and Sectoral Variations." He is currently undertaking complementary research into corporate impacts on human rights. Previously, Mr. Wright worked with the Genocide Intervention Network on corporate responsibility and engagement projects for firms operating in Sudan. He also worked on CSR and business and human rights issues at the United Nations Global Compact, specifically examining cases of corporate integration of human rights into business management. Mr. Wright has a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University. While there, he was Editor-in-Chief of Race and the Law Review and worked on civil rights litigation as a Haywood Burns Fellow.
David Grayson, Senior Fellow; and Chair and Founding Director, Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at the
Cranfield School of Management, UK
David Grayson is Chair and Founding Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at the Cranfield School of Management (UK). Grayson is a former Managing-Director of Business in the Community, a UK-based organization working to improve the impact of business on society with over 750 corporate members employing some 12 million people in over 200 countries worldwide. He remains a part-time director focused on sustainability and small businesses, and chairs the UK's Small Business Consortium, which encourages responsible business practices among small and medium enterprises and has served on numerous other advisory bodies for business, government, and nonprofit organizations. The Financial Times has described him as, "one of the UK's most respected voices on business social responsibility." His books include: Corporate Social Opportunity - Seven Steps to make Corporate Social Responsibility work for your business and Everybody's Business - both with Adrian Hodges. He was co-founder and director of Project North East which has worked on enterprise and small business development in over 40 countries. Grayson was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Brussels and has held Visiting Fellowships with a number of business schools.
Mark Kramer, Senior Fellow; and Founder and Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors
Mark Kramer is also a founder and served as initial Board Chair from 2000 to 2004 of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a nonprofit research organization in the United States. He has spoken and published extensively on topics in philanthropy and corporate social responsibility, including strategy, evaluation, leadership, social entrepreneurship, community foundations, venture philanthropy, cross-sector collaboration, and social investment. He is co-author, with Professor Michael E. Porter, of three influential Harvard Business Review articles entitled "Philanthropy's New Agenda: Creating Value" (1999), "The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy" (2002), and "Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility" (2006). In the Stanford Social Innovation Review he has published with John Kania "Game Changing CSR" (2006) and with Professor Ron Heifetz "Leading Boldly" (2005). He is also a regular contributor to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Prior to founding FSG, Mark served for twelve years as President of Kramer Capital Management, a venture capital firm, and before that as an Associate at the law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Holly Wise, Senior Fellow; and President of Wise Solutions
Through her consultancy practice, Wise Solutions LLC, Holly Wise brings international development, corporate social responsibility, public-private alliance, and business development expertise to corporations, foundations and non-profits. She teaches enterprise development at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and sits on the advisory boards of GlobalGiving and LivingGoods. Ms. Wise is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Holly Wise spent 26 years in the foreign service with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), achieving the diplomatic rank of Minister Counselor. She is the founder and first Secretariat Director of the Global Development Alliance, USAID’s business model that forges strategic alliances between public and private partners in addressing international development issues. Under her leadership 300 alliances were formed with $1.1 billion in USAID funding leveraging $3.8 billion in private resources for the world’s poor. In addition to overseas tours in Uganda, Kenya, Barbados, the Philippines and China, Ms. Wise served as USAID chair at the National Defense University where she taught political science, environmental courses, and published research on China. Ms. Wise is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Connecticut College and holds advanced degrees from Yale University and the National Defense University.
Simon Zadek, Senior Fellow; and Founder and Director, AccountAbility
Dr Simon Zadek is Chief Executive of the non-profit organization, AccountAbility, the leading organisation internationally advancing accountability innovations that support sustainable development. Simon is also a ‘Professor Extraordinaire’ at the University of South Africa’s Centre for Corporate Citizenship. He sits on the International Advisory Board of Instituto Ethos, the Advisory Board of Generation Investment Management, is a Member of the Clinton-Dalberg Task Force program effectiveness in leveraging private enterprise for development. In 2003 he was named one of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Global Leaders for Tomorrow’. Simon’s previous roles include Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, the Development Director of the New Economics Foundation, and founding Chair of the Ethical Trading Initiative. He has served on numerous Boards and Advisory Councils, including the State of the World’s Commission for Globalisation, the ILO’s World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalisation, the UN Commission for Social Development Expert Group on CSR, and the founding Steering Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous publications, including more recently Responsible Lobbying (2005), and two Harvard Working Papers on the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships in development and governance, Governing Partnership Governance (2006) and The Logic of Collaborative Governance (2005). He has written extensively on the impact of corporate responsibility on the competitiveness of nations Responsible Competitiveness (2005). His Ph.D. thesis was published as The Economics of Utopia (1994), and his writings as the anthology Tomorrow’s History (2004). His book, The Civil Corporation: the New Economy of Corporate Citizenship (2001), has become a classic in the field and was awarded the Best Book Social Issues Award by the Academy of Management in 2006.
John G. Ruggie, Chair
David Gergen, Professor of Public Service; Director, Center for Public Leadership, at Harvard Kennedy School
Alex S. Jones, Lecturer in Public Policy; Director, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, at the Harvard Kennedy School
Mark H. Moore, Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations and Faculty Director of the Hauser Center, at Harvard Kennedy School
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