Editing David Korten (section)

==Career and main body of work==
[[File:David Korten, The Green Interview.webm|thumb|right|David Korten in conversation with [[Silver Donald Cameron]] about his work]]
Korten served for five and a half years as a visiting associate professor of the [[Harvard University]] Graduate School of Business where he taught in Harvard's middle management, M.B.A., and doctoral programs.

He also served as the [[Harvard Business School]] adviser to the [[Nicaragua]]-based [[Central American Institute of Business Administration]]. He subsequently joined the staff of the [[Harvard Institute for International Development]], where he headed a [[Ford Foundation]]-funded project to strengthen the organization and management of national [[family planning]] programs.

In the late 1970s, Korten moved to [[Southeast Asia]], where he lived for nearly fifteen years, serving as a Ford Foundation project specialist and, later, as Asia regional adviser on development management to the [[United States Agency for International Development]] (USAID), which involved him in regular travels to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.<ref name=selfbio/>

Korten has written that he became disenchanted with the official aid system and devoted his last five years in Asia to "working with leaders of Asian [[non-governmental organization]]s on identifying the root causes of development failure in the region and building the capacity of [[civil society]] organizations to function as strategic [[economic catalyst|catalyst]]s of national- and global-level change".<ref name=selfbio/> He formed the view that the poverty, growing inequality, environmental devastation, and [[social disintegration]] he was observing in Asia also was being experienced in nearly every country in the world, including the United States and other "developed" countries. He also concluded that the United States was actively promoting—both at home and abroad—the very policies that were deepening the resulting global crisis.

He returned to the U.S. in 1992 and has assisted in raising public consciousness of the political and institutional consequences of [[economic globalization]] and the expansion of corporate power at the expense of democracy, equity, and [[environmental protection]].

Korten is co-founder and board chair of the [[Positive Futures Network]], which publishes the quarterly ''[[Yes! (U.S. magazine)|YES! Magazine]]''. He is also a founding board member, emeritus, of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, a former associate of the International Forum on Globalization,<ref name="ifg">[http://www.ifg.org/ International Forum on Globalization]</ref> and a member of the [[Club of Rome]].