Jette Knudsen

Jette Steen Knudsen is Professor of Policy and International Business and holds the Shelby Collum Davis Chair in Sustainability. She has also been appointed as a Velux Fellow at Copenhagen Business School. Her research centers on the interface between government regulation and business actions with a particular focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). She studies the ability of governments in economically advanced industrialized nations to promote social change through regulation of social practices of home country multinationals in developing countries. Her new book (with Jeremy Moon) is titled “Visible Hands: Government Regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Business” (Cambridge University Press, November 2017). She has published in journals such as British Journal of Industrial Relations, Business and Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Policy and Politics, Political Studies and Regulation and Governance. From 2003-2007 Knudsen headed a government-sponsored think tank, The Copenhagen Centre for CSR. She then served as project leader of a CSR task force for the CEO at Maersk, a shipping, oil and retail conglomerate. Knudsen graduated from MIT in 2001 with a PhD in Political Science.

Research/Areas of Interest:

My work is interdisciplinary and draws primarily from political science and business in society scholarship. I define my field of research as the government regulation of social welfare. I use the term social welfare to refer to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities but I also consider social welfare to mean employment and training opportunities with a particular focus on low-skilled workers.

Education

• BS, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 1988
• MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 1995
• PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 2001

Tufts University Appointments

• Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 30 Oct 2017 - present
• Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Business
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Sep 2014 - present
• Associate Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Sep 2014 - 29 Oct 2017

Academic Positions

• Visiting Fellow,
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Work and Employment Relations, Cambridge, United States Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
• Professor (MSO, with tenure)
  Copenhagen University, Department of Political Science, Copenhagen, Denmark Apr 2013 - Apr 2015
• Visiting Fellow
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Political Science, Cambridge, United States Aug 2013 - Aug 2014
• Associate Professor (with tenure)
  Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark Sep 2008 - Apr 2013

Non-academic Positions

• Project Leader for Copenhagen Business School/Senior Manager Deloitte Sustainability Unit (part time)
  Deloitte Feb 2008 - Sep 2008
• Project Leader
  Maersk (Denmark), Copenhagen, Denmark Sep 2007 - Feb 2008
• Director
  The Copenhagen Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen, Denmark Jun 2003 - 2007
• Sustanability Consultant
  CSR-Strategy ApS 2008 - present
• Consultant
  Ramboll Management 2001 - 2003
• Consultant
  PwC 1996 - present