Karen Renae Owens is an accomplished, results-driven global professional with 15 years of leadership experience within the nonprofit, telecommunications, and financial services industries in North America, Africa and Asia. A leading international thinker, Karen has several years of nonprofit experience specializing in capacity building, leadership development, program management and collaborative partnership development in Africa and Asia. In 2009, she launched her own consulting firm – KRO Consulting LLC – that offers a suite of advisory services to her clients, of which Harvard University was her first. With nearly two decades of total professional experience, Karen has worked for multinational Fortune 500 Corporations such as Verizon, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Wachovia Bank and as a contractor for Lehman Brothers. She was the Deputy Director for Domestic Policy for the William J. Clinton Foundation in New York. Then, she served in Africa as a pediatric HIV/AIDS program manager for President Clinton’s Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Karen managed the national Pediatric Global Health Program for Lesotho that supported over 11,000 HIV positive children. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Karen is affectionately known as the “globetrotting adventurer” of her family because she has lived in 5 countries, 10 US cities and has visited over 25 nations worldwide. A graduate of Howard University’s School of Business, Karen also earned a Master of Urban Planning in Economic Development from New York University and a Master of Divinity from Duke University. From 2013 – 2014, she was enrolled in a joint Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program at Columbia University, London Business School and The University of Hong Kong.