Betsy Williams is a social entrepreneur and philanthropist whose professional experiences in Africa and Asia have informed her investments and volunteer service over the last two decades – in global health, inclusive economic growth, citizen-centered governance in developing democracies, human rights, the arts, and opportunities for women in spaces ranging from public service to professional sports.

Ms. Williams’s service to support the administration of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf led to her founding the Presidents Young Professional Program and then Emerging Public Leaders (EPL), a pan-African NGO that recruits, trains, supports, and connects a new generation of civil servants devoted to a prosperous and equitable continent. Ms. Williams chairs EPL’s global board as the organization expands its signature fellowship program and EPL alumni ascend to senior positions in their nations’ governments.

Ms. Williams spent her early career at the intersection of social development, foreign policy, and global health, launching and supporting innovative programs at USAID, JSI, Asia Society and Physicians for Human Rights.

Today, Ms. Williams serves on the board of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Presidential Center in Liberia. Most recently she was on the Advisory Board of the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, from which she graduated cum laude, and the Board of Advisors of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, from which she received a master’s degree in public health. She is also a trustee of The Phillips Collection and Museum in Washington, DC, where she lives with her two daughters and husband – a career civil servant she met in Liberia. Together, they are active investors and fans of women’s global sports and steadfast patrons to Children’s National Medical Center, the Washington International School and the Lab School.