Mark Kramer, Co-Founder Shared Value, Chief Advisor, Shared Value Project

Mark served as a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School from 2016 to 2023, and is co-founder of FSG, a global consulting firm which helps develop social impact strategies for many of the world’s largest corporations and foundations. Mark led the firm from 2000 to 2021 and currently serves as Chairman. He is also a Founder and Director of Maternal Newborn Health Innovations and a Partner in the Congruence Capital investment fund.

Mark is coauthor of the Harvard Business Review article “Creating Shared Value” (2011), along with Professor Michael Porter, and has spoken and published extensively on topics in philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, shared value, collective impact, strategic evaluation, and impact investing. He also serves as a Senior Fellow in the CSR Initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Mark is a founder and served as initial Board Chair from 2000 to 2004 of Center for Effective Philanthropy, a non-profit research organisation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to founding FSG, Mark served for twelve years as President of Kramer Capital Management, a venture capital firm, and before that as an Associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray in Boston.

Mark previously served as a Director on the Shared Value Project and Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong Boards, and has now transitioned to the role of Chief Advisor for both organisations.