Patricia Bellinger

Patricia Bellinger is an Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to her role at HKS, Patricia served as Executive Director of Executive Education at Harvard Business School. Patricia has enjoyed a rich and varied career spanning multiple countries and disciplines, including the pharmaceutical industry, theatre, the energy sector, global corporations and start-up enterprises. Patricia served as the Group Vice President of Global Diversity and Inclusion at BP, plc in London. Under her leadership, BP was awarded the coveted Catalyst award for the advancement of women and progress in global diversity. She subsequently served as BP's Group Vice President of Executive Development and led the BP Leadership Academy as its first director. Patricia is a non-executive director of Sodexo SA in Paris and of Pattern Energy Inc., a renewable energy company in San Francisco. She serves on the Board of on the Board of Trustees of uAspire. She holds an A.B. from Harvard College, where she was a recipient of the Benjamin A. Trustman Fellowship and the Pulliam Journalism Fellowship.