Janet Corcoran

Janet Corcoran is Principal of The Corcoran Network, a management consulting firm she founded in 1999 to advance her clients most complicated projects by utilizing cross-sector and multi-disciplinary approaches. The firm's services include strategic planning; research and analysis; program design and implementation; and partnership development and coalition building.  Her clients have included The Conference Board, the Goldman Sachs Foundation, US AID, and the SIFMA Foundation for Investor Education.  Janet also partners with business and nonprofit clients to support their business development, external relations, programmatic and governance priorities.  

She was selected by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State to serve as a Fulbright Senior Specialist, a fellowship which she completed in the spring of 2023 in Northern Ireland with the Belfast Region City Deal, at Queen’s University, Belfast.

She began her career as a public finance attorney, spending six years as an associate at private law firms on the East Coast.  She next joined The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey where she served as Deputy General Counsel of the Public Securities Law Division, and subsequently spent seven years with GE Capital, as Senior Counsel and Manager of Government Affairs at Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, and as a Vice President with the Global Project Structured Finance Group.

In 2004, she began a second career as a nonprofit leader in New York City, serving as the chief executive of two nonprofits dedicated to improving the public school system, PENCIL and Read Ahead.  She also served as the CEO of Common Good, a national legal reform coalition.  She most recently served as Vice President for Institutional Advancement at CUNY’s LaGuardia Community College and as Executive Director of the College’s 501(c)(3) charitable foundation. 

She holds a B.A. in Government from Radcliffe College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, a Master in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School, where she was an Editor of the Boston College Law Review.