Hartley, Jane Dorothy, 1950-

<p>Jane Dorothy Hartley (born April 18, 1950) is the former United States Ambassador to France and United States Ambassador to Monaco. The United States Senate confirmed Hartley to both posts on September 16, 2014. She left office on January 20, 2017. She is also a former official in the administration of President Jimmy Carter and the former chief executive officer of an economic consulting firm.</p>

<p>Hartley earned a bachelor's degree from Newton College of the Sacred Heart (now part of Boston College) in 1972.</p>

<p>Hartley began working as the executive director for the Democratic Mayors' Conference for the Democratic National Committee from 1974 until 1977. She then worked as director of congressional relations in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1977 until 1978. She then worked as an associate assistant to the president in the Office of Public Liaison in the White House during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, from 1978 until 1981.</p>

<p>From 1981 until 1983, Hartley worked as a vice president for Group W Cable, and she then was a vice president of corporate communications at Westinghouse Broadcasting from 1983 until 1985. She was then a vice president of marketing for MCA Broadcasting from 1985 until 1987. From 1987 until 1989, Hartley was station manager of WWOR-TV.</p>

<p>From 1994 until 2007, Hartley worked for the G7 Group, serving as CEO from 1995 until 2007. Beginning in 2007, she became the chief executive officer of the Observatory Group, which is an economic and political consulting advisory firm with offices around the world.</p>

<p>On January 26, 2011, President Obama nominated Hartley to serve on the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service. The U.S. Senate confirmed her by unanimous consent on April 26, 2012.</p>

<p>On June 6, 2014, President Obama announced his intention to nominate Hartley to be United States Ambassador to France and the United States Ambassador to Monaco to replace Charles Rivkin, whom Obama tapped to become an assistant Secretary of State. Obama formally nominated Hartley on June 9, 2014.</p>

<p>Hartley is known for being a campaign bundler who raised more than $500,000 for Obama's re-election bid in 2012.</p>

<p>On September 16, 2014, the U.S. Senate confirmed Hartley in a voice vote to be the U.S. ambassador to France and the U.S.'s ambassador to Monaco. She took her oath of office on October 15, 2014, from Vice President Joe Biden.</p>

<p>On January 11, 2015, Hartley represented the United States at a unity march in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo shooting.</p>

<p>In June 2015, following revelations that the U.S. had spied on French political leaders, Élisabeth Guigou, president of the Foreign Affairs committee in the National Assembly, invited Hartley to appear before members. Hartley declined the invitation.</p>

<p>Hartley is married to investment banker and Evercore Partners CEO Ralph Schlosstein. They have two children.</p>

<p>She has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations for more than 10 years.</p>

<p>On July 15, 2014, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing into the nomination of Jane D. Hartley to be the next U.S. ambassador to France. It would be the first ambassadorial posting for Hartley, who was a major contributor and bundler in Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns.</p>

<p>Hartley, 64, is from Waterbury, Connecticut, where her father, James, ran a construction company and her mother, Dorothy, was a real estate broker. She graduated from Newton College of the Sacred Heart in Massachusetts with a B.A. in political science and economics; the college merged with Boston College in 1974.</p>

<p>Hartley got an early start in politics. In 1974, she was executive director of the Democratic Mayors Conference for the Democratic National Committee. Then, in 1977, she went to work in the Carter Administration, first as director of Congressional relations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and in 1978 as a senior assistant in the White House Office of Public Liaison.</p>

<p>After Jimmy Carter lost his re-election bid in 1980, Hartley moved into the private sector as vice president of corporate communications for Westinghouse Broadcasting and vice president for new markets development for Group W Cable.</p>

<p>In October 1983, Hartley married Ralph Schlosstein, another former Carter White House official who was associate director of the White House domestic policy staff. Schlosstein has since gone on to help found money management firm BlackRock (which is now the world’s largest asset manager) and currently is chief executive officer of investment banking firm Evercore.</p>

<p>Hartley was named vice president for marketing for MCA’s broadcasting unit in 1985. She became vice president and station manager for New York television station WWOR in 1987, working there until 1989. Under her watch, the station made a disruptive move in the television syndication market when it agreed to pay $40 million for rights to broadcast “The Cosby Show.” The deal pushed the price of the program higher in almost every market in the country.</p>

<p>In 1993, Hartley went to work for the G-7 Group, first as chief operating officer and in 1995 as chief executive officer. G-7 offered advice and analysis to G-7 countries on how government policies affect financial markets.</p>

<p>Since 2007, Hartley has been chief executive officer of the Observatory Group, a company which she co-founded that advises multinational corporations on how developments in government policy can affect their businesses.</p>

<p>Hartley and Schlosstein have been active in Democratic politics. In the 2012 campaign, Hartley is credited with bundling at least $500,000, and possibly up to $1.4 million, for Obama’s re-election effort. In 2011 she and Schlosstein hosted a $71,600-per-couple fundraiser for Obama. She has also contributed to the campaigns of numerous Democratic Congressional candidates.</p>

<p>The couple is also active in charity efforts, establishing a foundation to provide scholarships and giving to other causes.</p>

<p>Since 2012, Hartley has been a member of the board of directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In June 2012, she became vice chairman of The Economic Club of New York.</p>

<p>She has a daughter, Kate, and a son, Jamie.</p>

<p>Jane Hartley served as Ambassador to the French Republic and the Principality of Monaco from 2014 – 2017 during some of the most difficult times for France. She was confirmed to both posts by the U.S. Senate in September 2014.</p>

<p>Previously, Jane Hartley was Chief Executive Officer and a Founding Principal of Observatory Group, an international economic and political advisory firm providing analysis of key government policies affecting the global capital markets. Before founding Observatory Group, Ms. Hartley was Chief Executive Officer of the G7 Group. As CEO, Ms. Hartley built G7 Group into a premier research firm providing macroeconomic and political analysis to investors in the global market. The G7 Group put together a network of global policymakers and distributed analysis to most of the major central bankers and finance ministers as well as major financial institutions.</p>

<p>Jane currently serves as a member of the Visiting Committee at the Kennedy School at Harvard University as well as the Executive Committee and the Dean’s Council. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Jane is a member of the Board of Overseers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sesame Workshop (Sesame Street) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for American Progress.</p>

<p>Ms. Hartley was a Presidential appointee to the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service and a Member of the Board of Trustees of Heidrick & Struggles. Jane was Vice Chairman, Trustee, and member of the Executive Committee of the Economics Club of New York.</p>

<p>Previously, Ms. Hartley held several positions in the telecommunications industry. She was Vice President and Station Manager of WWOR-TV, an independent television station owned by Universal Studios (MCA). In her tenure at Universal, Ms. Hartley was also Vice President of Marketing for MCA Broadcasting and was an outside director of Pinelands, Inc., an MCA subsidiary. Ms. Hartley was also Vice President of Corporate Communications at Westinghouse Broadcasting. She served as Vice President of New Markets Development for Group W Cable.</p>

<p>Before becoming involved in the telecommunications industry, Ms. Hartley was involved in the public sector, serving at the highest levels of government. She worked at the White House in the Carter Administration in the Office of Public Liaison, with responsibilities that included working with and mobilizing outside constituency groups to support presidential policies. In this capacity, Ms. Hartley worked closely with Mayors and Governors as well as the business community, with a focus on domestic issues.</p>

<p>Ms. Hartley was the Director of Congressional Relations at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She worked with the Secretary of HUD and members of Congress to advance legislative proposals. She also managed the Congressional Relations staff.</p>

<p>Jane was also involved with many educational institutions. Jane was a board member of the President’s Leadership Council of Dartmouth College and former head of the Parent’s Committee. Ms. Hartley was a member of both the Wall Street and the Women’s Council of Boston College, a former Trustee of the New School, a former Board Member of Parsons School of Design, and a former Trustee of the Nightingale-Bamford School.</p>

<p>Jane graduated from Boston College (Newton College) with a B.A.</p>