About Nadine
Nadine B. Hack, President of beCause Global Consulting,  is recognized internationally for proven expertise in strategic planning, creative problem solving, insightful policy analysis, and politically sensitive negotiations. She’s provided innovative guidance to and created crucial partnerships for institutions from multiple sectors and has imparted tactical direction for their special initiatives throughout the world for more than three decades. Promoting “Good Deeds as Great Investments,” all work is designed to advance organizations’ missions and values.  Her specialties include creating complex multi-sector strategic alliances in a globalized world; reputation management in a socially-conscious society; and developing new presences in specific communities by region or market segmentation. She will be Executive-in-Residence on Responsible Leadership at IMD ranked 1st outside US, 2nd globally by The Financial Times, #2 worldwide by The Economist and 3rd globally by Forbes. Â
Hack has extensive experience with the United Nations, where she served as New York City Commissioner for the UN, Consular Corps and International Business, the city’s senior official liaison with the world’s largest diplomatic and business communities. She has advised three UN Secretaries-General and heads of state, including Philippines President Corazon Aquino and South Africa President Nelson Mandela. She’s worked on projects with corporations including AOL/Time Warner, Aprica Kassai Industries, Coca-Cola, Chevron Texaco, Deutsche Telecom, Fujitsu Siemens, Levi Straus & Company, MTV Networks, Reebok International, and Volkswagen; foundations and nonprofits including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors of the World, Ford Foundation, Global Citizens Circle, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, National Summit on Africa, Rockefeller Foundation, Ms. Foundation and White House Project. Earlier, Hack was the President of the New York City Sister City Program, managing financial, technical, educational, sports and cultural exchanges with cities globally.
Hack has served on official UN or US delegations and fact-finding missions in countries throughout the world, with a particular emphasis on southern Africa. She designed and taught courses for the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and for the International Program of SNHU Graduate School of Community Economic Development, where she gave the 2009 commencement speech. She’s been a keynote speaker at myriad conferences and universities. She’s had numerous articles written about or published by her including in The New York Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, UN Chronicle, PINK and New York Observer.  Television, radio and internet interviews include NPR, FOX, MNN, Good News Broadcast, UN Radio and TV.  She is listed on SheSource.org, an on-line database of women who are experts in their fields, and documented in the oral history archives of Brooklyn College’s School of Education Shirley Chisholm Project of Women’s Activism.  She’s brought vital leadership to scores of campaigns linking private resources with public needs to promote the advancement of women, children, minorities, health, human rights, civil liberties, economic development, the environment and peace.
Her service on for- and not-for-profit governance and advisory boards includes Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation (Chair through 2005), Africa-America Institute (Vice Chair through 2009), Synergos Institute (Executive Committee through 2009), Amnesty International USA, Xechem International Inc., Global Initiatives, World Policy Institute and UN Association of New York.  She’s accepted awards including Grand Companions of OR Tambo, NYWA Star, International Outstanding Achievement, Woman of the Year, Distinguished Women of New York, SAAO Leadership and New American Leader.  She has Master Degrees from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at The New School.Â