Nancy Green
Manager
Markle Foundation

Nancy Green is responsible for management of a broad range of programs at Markle, including domestic and international digital divide initiatives, the Markle/New America Fellows program, and the Accountability Framework project, part of the Policy for a Networked Society Program. She came to Markle with a background in research, strategic planning and communications, most recently with Westhill Partners, a strategic marketing and consulting firm based in New York City.

For five years, beginning in 1993, Green was based in Budapest, Hungary, most recently with the Open Society Institute. As a program officer in the Institute’s Education Program Support Unit, she provided strategic planning, program management, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation assistance to the Soros Foundation and delivered staff development training throughout central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and Central Asia. Among her other duties, she conducted field work in Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine and prepared reports on education trends in the region, with a focus on human rights, civic, and minority education programs.

Prior to that, Green was in-country director for the National Service League in Budapest, where she recruited and managed staff working on programs in journalism, community development and environmental protection.

Before moving to Hungary, Green served on the national advance staff of the Clinton/Gore 1992 Presidential Campaign, leading site advance work for Vice President Gore. Following the election, she was a member of the Transition Staff of the National Security Council. Green was also the Director of Development at the Women’s Information Network and foreign policy staff assistant in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

Green earned a Master of Science degree in Government from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Asian Studies from Tufts University. She has also studied Chinese language and history at Nanjing University, in the Peoples Republic of China.

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