Jo Mackness
Board Chair
Executive Director | Center for Responsible Business Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Jo Mackness is Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Committed to challenging existing notions of business’ role in society and creating a new generation of business leaders, Jo leads Center efforts that engage students, faculty and companies in research, teaching and experiential learning that redefine good business. The Center has received global critical acclaim—most recently in January 2010 by The Financial Times that rated Haas number two in the world for MBA programs in corporate responsibility.
Before joining the Center, Jo served as the Corporate Responsibility Integration Leader at Ernst & Young, where she worked to embed social and environmental responsibility into core firm activities.
Prior to EY, Jo was a human capital consultant working in the US and the UK, primarily serving professional services and financial services firms on transactions, corporate governance and executive compensation issues.
Jo is a Haas alumna and has worked closely with the Center for Responsible Business since its inception in 2003—both as a corporate partner and as an instructor for the Strategic CSR & Consulting Projects course.
A dual citizen of the UK and US, Jo lives in Oakland, California with her Danish husband and two sons.
