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Jane Wales (born 1948) is an American executive who has served on the boards of directors of many institutions. In 2015, she is the CEO of the Global Philanthropy Forum, President and CEO of the World Affairs Council and Vice President of Philanthropy and Society at the Aspen Institute. Wales is Board Chair of FSG and a member of the board of Center for a New American Security. She also hosts the NPR interview show "World Affairs", produced through KQED-FM.

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Early life

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Wales graduated from the Emma Willard School and Sarah Lawrence College.

Career

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From 1993 to 1996, Wales served in the Clinton Administration as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council. At the same time she served as Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology policy, a senate-confirmed position. In this dual appointment, her responsibilities included policy development on issues ranging from the fate of nuclear weapons material in the former Soviet Union to the negotiation of bilateral science and technology agreements between the United States and emerging economies.

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As part of her work at the Global Philanthropy Forum, the World Affairs Council and the Aspen Institute, Wales has conducted on-stage interviews with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former President William J. Clinton, the Dalai Lama, the Aga Khan IV, former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Sir Richard Branson; Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Sudanese philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

During the Carter Administration, Wales served as Assistant Deputy Secretary of State. Wales was the executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which shared in the Nobel Peace Prize during her tenure.

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