Georgia Levenson Keohane

Georgia Levenson Keohane is a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, where she is writing a book about social enterprise and the promise and limitations of market solutions to complex social problems.

Georgia’s career has bridged the private and non-profit sectors, with her work focused on social enterprise and cross-sector innovations in public policy.   A former McKinsey consultant and foundation executive, Georgia advises a range of poverty-fighting organizations, including philanthropies (ie, the Robin Hood Foundation), educational entities (ie, the New York City Charter School Center), community development organizations (ie, Civic Builders) and think tanks (ie, The Aspen Institute). She writes regularly on social and economic policy and the intersection of business and society for The Harvard Business Review, The Nation, The American Prospect, Slate and other publications.  Georgia has taught at Yale, and is an Adjunct Research Scholar in the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School.  A native New Yorker, she lives with her husband and two daughters in the Manhattan Valley neighborhood where she grew up.

Georgia holds a BA from Yale University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MSc from London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.