With a BA in journalism, philosophy and American History Jean Hart completed postgraduate courses in marketing at Radcliffe College and strategic marketing at London Business School. She is now a Director of International Business Intelligence and owner of Hart Consulting, specialising in international business. Jean's career began on Wall Street in 1961 with Bache & Co. In 1973 she joined The Mitre Corporation working in Spain. Then she joined Honeywell Information Systems. Over ten years she worked in technical analysis, sales and contracts, marketing, new business development and oversight of projects in Europe and the Middle East. From 1981 - 84 she was responsible for World Wide Military Command & Control Systems. In 1985 she was in China responsible for a $500 million contract which included the installation, maintenance and turnover of mainframes in the 14 universities of science and technology and the co-operative design and implementation of a service and support centre in Beijing and Director of National Accounts, responsible for a $100 million revenue base worldwide. Jean has been an independent consultant in the intelligence community since 1991.

Jean has been a guest speaker on international business operations at the Air War College, Univ. of Iowa (engineering), Penn State Univ. (engineering) James Madison University (business). American Inst. of Banking. New England Inst. of Law Enforcement Management. Babson College. Rhode Is. College and New England Bureau. Designed and taught 'Business Concepts for Operations' - a week long seminar for senior managers and executives in the intelligence community from 1991 - 97. She speaks, to various degrees of proficiency, German, Spanish, French and Chinese.