Beth Jenkins

Beth Jenkins is a strategist and relationship builder working to expand economic opportunity, upward mobility, and shared prosperity through business. Over the course of her career, she has worked with large companies, entrepreneurial ventures, impact-oriented investors and NGOs to shape business models and systems that create value and share it fairly. At SocialSide, she leads strategy and thought leadership engagements for companies like Unilever and Mars and for agenda-setting organizations such as WBCSD. She played an instrumental role in WBCSD’s Business Commission to Tackle Inequality, a coalition of 80+ CEOs and other leaders aiming to put inequality on par with climate in terms of business attention and action. Before SocialSide, she founded the Economic Opportunity Program at the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School and served as a non-resident senior fellow there for more than 10 years. She also served on John Ruggie’s business and human rights mandate team. Earlier in her career, she helped to build the concept and practice of inclusive business at IFC, UNDP, the World Resources Institute, and Ashoka. She has authored more than 30 reports.