Dr. Kari Selander is a social scientist that works as a strategy and sustainability advisor. Her current portfolio of work is focused on developing sustainability and social impact strategies and tools for businesses and philanthropies. Prior to her time working in sustainability and international development, Kari worked in a range of news and production roles in New York, Hong Kong and London.
Her work as director of Oxford Policy Management U.S. focused on business development and corporate social responsibility initiatives in a highly matrixed organization, working directly with the organization’s C-suite: building partnerships with mission-aligned development organizations to deliver innovative research and strategic guidance.
Dr. Selander was the Founding Director of OPM’s Oxford Policy Fellowship Program, OPM’s flagship CSR initiative focused on supporting policymakers in the Global South. Kari’s consultancy work focused on natural resource governance (with a focus on fossil fuels), political economy programming, and law and development. Her PhD focused on environmental law and justice in the context of oil exploitation in Nigeria.
In almost a decade at OPM – a leading British international development consultancy – roles involved extensive travel to countries in Africa and Asia, working with governments and not-for-profit organizations in India and Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Djibouti, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Liberia and Namibia to win work, build partnerships, develop strategy, lead research and implement programming to achieve environmental, economic, governance and social policy reform objectives.
She was previously an EC Marie Curie research fellow, and Consultant at Oxford Policy Management in the Economic Policy Program. She was also a visiting pre-doctoral research fellow at Columbia Law School’s Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (Now CCSI) and UCLA’s Department of Political Science working on fuel subsidies.
Dr. Selander lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and dog.
Please contact Dr. Selander at DrKariSelander@gmail.com for full CV.
Dr. Kari Selander 