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 Ashley Brown is executive director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group at CBG. He is also an instructor in Harvard's Executive program on "Infrastructure in a Market Economy." An attorney admitted to practice in Ohio, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, Brown served as an arbitrator in matters relating to the evolution of competition in infrastructure industries. Currently, he is affiliated with the law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae in Boston. Before joining HEPG, Ashley Brown was appointed by Governor Richard F. Celeste to serve as Commissioner of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio from 1983 through 1993. Prior to his appointment to the Commission, Brown was coordinator and counsel of the Montgomery County, Ohio, Fair Housing Center; managing attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Dayton, Inc; and legal advisor of the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission in Dayton. He holds a master's degree from University of Cincinnati and a JD from University of Dayton School of Law. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer on regulatory matters and the author of numerous articles and papers. He has two daughters.
e: ashley_brown@ksg.harvard.edu
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David works as a Faculty Assistant with Kim Williams and F.M. Scherer.
e: david_fishman@ksg.harvard.edu
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Jamie Georgia joined CBG in 2006 as a Faculty Assistant to Roger Porter, Dorothy Zinberg, Brigitte Madrian and Matthew Baum. Jamie attended Boston University, where he graduated with a BA in English. Prior to joining CBG, he worked for three years as an office coordinator in the Office of Technology Development at Harvard Medical School, as well as two years as a project coordinator at the Harvard Clinical Research Institute.
e: jamie_georgia@ksg.harvard.edu
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Minoo Ghoreishi is assistant to John Ruggie and has been with the University for six years. Minoo was born and raised in Iran before moving to the U.S. in 1982. She attended Northern Essex Community College and has taken courses at Harvard Extension School.
e: minoo_ghoreishi@ksg.harvard.edu
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Tyler is a program assistant with the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements (HPICA) and the Harvard Environmental Economics Initiative (HEEP)
e: tyler_gumpright@ksg.harvard.edu
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 Cara Helfner is a Research Associate for the Health Care Delivery Policy Program specializing in health care delivery statistics and trends. Helfner received her MSLIS from Simmons College. She has founded libraries for Massachusetts Health Data Consortium and Brigham and Women's Hospital and currently serves as Chief Librarian for Brigham and Women's Kessler Health Education Library. She is a Massachusetts Association of Health Sciences Librarians Expert Searcher, reviews books for the Medical Library Association and serves on National Library of Medicine database and readability advisory committees and the advisory board for the Boston Regional Library System. Published works and presentations include the Guide to Enterprise Networks in Health Care, the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet and the Integrated Online Library Systems Conference.
e: chelfner@partners.org
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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.
e: beth_jenkins@ksg.harvard.edu
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Kathleen Kaminski is Executive Assistant to HKS Professor William Hogan and the Project Coordinator of the Consortium on Energy Policy Research Programs at Harvard. In 2000 Kathleen earned her Master of Management degree and a Business Certificate in Small Business Management. Kathleen is also a Doula and Childbirth Educator primarily working with teenagers.
e: kathleen_kaminski@ksg.harvard.edu
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Amy Lehr is a research fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School
of Government 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.
e: amy_lehr@ksg.harvard.edu
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 Scott Leland is the Executive Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, supporting the Center's research programs, general administration, strategic planning, and day-to-day operations. Prior to joining M-RCBG, he was the Administrative Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard from 1998 to 2004 and manager of a workforce development project at the Education Development Center from 1996-1998, with programs in Peru, Namibia, and India. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as a Project Assistant with the Harvard Institute for International Development in Singapore where he taught courses in economics and policy analysis at the National University of Singapore. He has also worked as a Research Fellow with the Enivornmental Protection Agency in Seattle, a Program Coordinator for Vision Health International in Costa Rica, and Regional Director for South America and the Caribbean with Amigos de las Americas based in Houston, traveling extensively through Latin America. He is a graduate of Stanford University and has a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School.
e: scott_leland@ksg.harvard.edu
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Louisa Lund is the Program Director for Energy Policy Programs.
e: louisa_lund@ksg.harvard.edu
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 Jo-Ann Mahoney is the Program Director for the Harvard Electricity Policy Group. She also serves as Event and Publication Coordinator for the Environment and Natural Resources Program at BCSIA. She is also a fiction writer, publishing under the name Jo-Ann Graziano. Her work has appeared in ForeWord Magazine, the Charles River Review, Harvard Review and Glimmer Train Stories. She earned her undergraduate degree from Hofstra University and was the first woman to graduate with an ALM from Harvard Extension School's new graduate program in Creative Writing and Literature. She currently teaches Expository Writing at Harvard Extention. She spent summer 2000 working on a novel titled "The Healing Power of Garlic" in Southern France and Amsterdam under a grant from the Cogitas Corp.
e: jo-ann_mahoney@ksg.harvard.edu
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Shannon is the Executive Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative and the Associate Director for Communications at M-RCBG. She received her M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, focusing on religion and public policy. She earned her bachelor's degree Phi Beta Kappa in Political Science and Religion at Colgate University.
e: Shannon_Murphy@ksg.harvard.edu
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Jane Nelson is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She serves as a Director at the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) and is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the 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.
e: jane_nelson@ksg.harvard.edu
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Caroline Rees is a Research Fellow with the M-RCBG’s 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.
e: Caroline_Rees@ksg.harvard.edu
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As Program Coordinator for the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Vidya Sivan supports CSRI’s logistics, communication, and event planning needs. 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.
e: vidya_sivan@ksg.harvard.edu
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Robert C. Stowe is the Program Manager of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. He also serves as Associate Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Stowe has worked in non-profit, academic, and business organizations. In the late 1980s, he was Vice-President for Programs for the Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, which provides assistance in agriculture and agribusiness to developing countries. He later served as a consultant to CNFA in Russia and Ukraine. He has consulted to the World Bank on agricultural projects in Uganda. From 1996 – 2002 Dr. Stowe worked in business, most recently in project management and sales with Human Factors International (HFI). HFI is one of the world’s leading firms in the field of software and Web usability. Among other projects with HFI, he co-managed a large Web design project for the Singapore government. Stowe holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT, where he studied with Eugene B. Skolnikoff, a leading scholar in the field of science, technology, and international affairs. His B.A. is in physics from Harvard. He taught political science and public policy at Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in Iowa from 1990–1995, where he was a visiting member of the faculty from 1983–1990. He also served as Director of Policy Development for MUM’s Institute of Science, Technology, and Public Policy and remains an Institute Fellow. Stowe’s research has dealt with the applications of science and technology for development and the domestic political determinants of foreign technical assistance.
e:robert_stowe@ksg.harvard.edu
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Miranda Daniloff Mancusi is an Associate Director of the center. She is the Director of the Fellows and Visiting Programs, which brings corporate executives, government officials and scholars to explore research at the intersection of government and business. Miranda is also the center liaison with the Business and Government student professional interest council and a key staffer for the Boston-based Leadership Council. Miranda was an assistant director in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she held a variety of positions in broadcast communications including Monitor Radio, WGN Radio, Lifetime Television and New England Cable News. During the mid-80s, she worked for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the Press and Culture Section. Miranda has her MBA from Simmons School of Management and a Bachelors of Speech from Northwestern University. She lives in Brookline with her husband and their combined family of four children.