JACKSON Lorie D.
Director, Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative, ExxonMobil

Session: Pluralism - Women’s Education
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
- 11.00-12.30
Lorie D. Jackson joined ExxonMobil in 1989 and has taken on a wide variety of responsibilities and challenges within the Corporation's Treasurer's and Public Affairs Departments. Beginning in its Treasury Department, she managed issues related to financial policy, capital markets, international affiliate financing and project financing. In 1998 she joined ExxonMobil's Public Affairs Department where she served in several positions including International Representative for Africa, Middle East and Europe; Representative for the US Senate; and most recently she has taken on the management and development of the Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative – a global program which helps women in developing countries fulfill their economic potential.
Lorie has a long-standing academic and professional interest in economic development. As such, she is eagerly embracing the opportunity to make ExxonMobil a powerful force in combating poverty by providing women with business and management-skills training, networking opportunities and improved access to technology and information. Lorie earned a BA in Economics from Wellesley College, an MPA from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and an MBA from Stanford University. Lorie lives in Washington, DC, holds an office at ExxonMobil's Fairfax Campus in Northern Virginia, and reports to the company's headquarters office in Dallas, Texas.

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