Tracy Williams

As a director on the reimagining capitalism team, Tracy leads the Omidyar Network’s work to build the power of working people and shape a new economic paradigm.  

Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Tracy was at McKinsey & Company, first as a consultant in their South Africa office and later as the Global Practice Manager for Economic Development in Washington DC, a role where she led the client, knowledge, and people strategies to support McKinsey’s economic development work around the world. Prior to McKinsey, Tracy worked for five years in economic policy and international development, including at The Hamilton Project at Brookings, the policy team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Naandi Foundation in Hyderabad, India where she worked on launching a smallholder coffee company and designed and implemented a major survey of child malnutrition. 

Tracy earned her B.A. from Stanford University in political science and economics. She completed two graduate degrees as a Marshall Scholar in the United Kingdom in international politics (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) and development studies (Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex).