Jeanne Finestone

Strategic Communications Consultant @Independent Consultant and Contractor

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A seasoned communications strategist, Jeanne brings 12+ years leading communications, advocacy and marketing programs for United Nations and international organizations in addition to 15+ years in the private and non-profit sectors. She has developed and implemented stakeholder-focused, multi-platform programs that have resulted in measurable benefits for such diverse international, development and media organizations as World Agroforestry (ICRAF), the diplomatic and donor clients of Moby Group and UN agencies (UNDP, FAO, South-South Cooperation, UNITAR-Division of Prosperity/Hiroshima, UNICEF, UN Peacekeeping), as well as McGraw-Hill Children’s Publishing and America’s Public Broadcasting System. For the past several years she has served as the Senior Communications Advisor to UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub, which supports countries’ efforts to build a sustainable finance infrastructure designed to advance investment decisions aligned to the SDGs. Through her vision-driven approach to strategic communications, tactical implementation and decision-making, she has demonstrated outstanding leadership skills and has built a reputation for being creative, proactive and entrepreneurial. She did her Bachelors at George Washington University, completing the degree at Rutgers, and has a Masters from Proyecto Kalu in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid. She has also attended various training programs including the World Bank’s Public-Private Partnerships, WHO/NYU's Communications for Behavioral Impact, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and will complete Harvard’s Mastering High Stakes Negotiations and its complementary AI-Enhanced Negotiations programs in September 2025.