Georgia Levenson Keohane

Director, Program on Profits & Purpose

Georgia Levenson Keohane is a Senior Fellow at New America and Director of the Program on Profits and Purpose, a new initiative that explores ways in which social entrepreneurship, innovation and finance can address some of our most pressing social and economic challenges. Keohane’s work examines the promise – and limitations – of market based solutions to problems of poverty, inequality and opportunity, and identifies how public-private partnerships can enhance investment in human and physical capital.

Keohane is an adjunct Professor in the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School, where she serves on the University’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing. She speaks and writes regularly on social and economic policy and the intersection of business and society; her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, the Washington Monthly, Slate, The Nation, The American Prospect, and other publications. Keohane is the author of Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private and Public Sectors (McGraw Hill 2013).

Keohane’s career has bridged the private and nonprofit sectors. A former McKinsey consultant and foundation executive, she advises a number of organizations including philanthropies, community development and finance organizations, educational entities, think tanks and social purpose companies. Most recently, Keohane was a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute (2011-2014), where she worked on a range of issues in economic policy, including poverty and inequality, employment and job growth, social entrepreneurship and the role of firms in society. She has taught at Yale, and serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations.

Keohane holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and an M.Sc. from London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.