Jane Wales (born 1948) is an American non-profit executive and former US government official who has served on the boards of directors of and founded many institutions.

[8] She served concurrently in a Senate-confirmed position as Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

[9] In her dual appointment, her responsibilities included policy development on issues ranging from the fate of nuclear weapons material in the former Soviet Union to the negotiation of bilateral science and technology agreements between the United States and emerging economies.

[10] As part of her work in broadcasting, Wales has conducted on-stage interviews with United Nations Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon;  former US Presidents William J. Clinton and Jimmy Carter; former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, John Kerry, and Madeleine Albright; former Secretaries of Defense William J. Perry, Ashton Carter and Leon Panetta; former National Security Council Advisors Stephen Hadley and Anthony Lake; religious leaders Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama; and heads of state ranging from British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Poland’s Lech Walesa to Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

She has also interviewed technology entrepreneurs, including Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google; Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook; Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn; and Andy Grove of Intel.