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Duke Corporate Education
310 Blackwell Street
Durham, NC 27701
USA

Jane Sommers-Kelly

Managing Director

Jane Sommers-Kelly is a Managing Director at Duke Corporate Education responsible for Duke CE’s Asian market entry strategy.  She also designs and delivers programs for a portfolio of corporate clients, such as IBM, UTC, Eramet in France and PETRONAS in Malaysia.

Jane brings her business career instincts to design, aiming for relevance of learning, prioritizing business results and measuring these results post-program. Prior to Duke CE she spent 16 years in Europe, firstly as a Country Representative in Eastern Europe and lastly running INSEAD's Company Specific Programme group.

She joined INSEAD in 1998 as Director of Development building relations with US-based corporates, and then was asked to start-up INSEAD OnLine as Managing Director. Here she built an online learning capability for INSEAD so that clients could extend their learning beyond the classroom. Her team was able as a result to design and deliver Blended Learning Programs with numerous clients and web-links for all clients.

Prior to Executive Education, Jane spent 13 years in the financial industry: six on Wall Street with JP Morgan investment banking in New York City and then with Bankers Trust running their Czech and Slovak businesses from Prague.

Jane earned an MBA from INSEAD and graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar. She is a Trustee of the United Church of Christ Chapel Hill and The Hotchkiss School.