Nina Luzzatto Gardner,

Nina L. Gardner lives in Rome, Italy and is the director of Strategy International, a consulting firm she founded in 1999 specializing in international public affairs advocacy and corporate social responsibility partnerships between the private sector, governments and international organizations. She is currently a consultant to the OECD project on Indicators for Measuring the Progress of Societies focusing on outreach to foundations and think tanks and committed to the mainstreaming of gender issues. Her more interesting former projects include co-chairing an OECD Center of Entrepreneurship taskforce regarding the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship in the MENA region and providing advisory work to new NGO, Alliance for Health & the Future, regarding policy challenges posed by greater longevity in Europe.

Prior to this she had two posts in the Balkans, first as a political officer in the UN Liaison office in Zagreb, Croatia, tracking human rights issues following the Dayton Accords, then with the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities as an institution and capacity building advisor for the Serb community in Vukovar, Eastern Slavonia. 
Ms. Gardner is an activist in women’s issues – and is the founding president of three professional women’s associations in Europe. She is a lawyer by training. She is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe, Columbia Law School and Rotary scholar at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotà, Colombia. She is fluent in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and speaks passable Czech and Russian.