Jill Shankleman
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
In Residence: October 2003 - July 2004
Caucasus • Western Europe • Commonwealth of Independent States • Economics and Conflict • Environment and Conflict • International Financial Institutions • Oil and Gas Issues
ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE
Project Focus
Does Business Have a Role in Peacemaking?
Background
Jill Shankleman is director of J. Shankleman Limited, a business consulting firm she founded in 2000. As a consultant, she has worked with oil and gas firms to help them assess the social impact of investment in the former Soviet Union, Angola, Algeria, Indonesia, China, Bolivia, South Africa, and elsewhere. She was director of Environmental Resources Management (London, 1987–2000), where she served as a consultant on the development of government environmental departments in various European Community member states (1980–85) and corporate environmental management systems. She was also a consultant with InterGroup Consultants (Winnipeg, 1986), and an analyst for the International Coffee Organization (London, 1977–80) and for the United Nations and World Bank, working with Tanzania's Ministry of Agriculture (1974–77). Her writing and editing experience includes serving as project manager for a multi-volume Investor's Guidebook: Environment, Health, and Safety Law and Practice and co-authoring a working paper on multi-sector partnerships. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Essex.
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