Jackie Jones

Jackie Jones is the Director and Chief of Staff, Gender Equality Office of the President at the Gates Foundation.

Jackie Jones leads the office that oversees the foundation’s gender integration efforts, women in leadership investments, and the Gender Equality Division’s business functions. She serves as a trusted advisor to the division’s president and executive team, supports the division’s culture and overall effectiveness, and promotes gender-related collaboration and progress across the foundation.

Jackie joined the foundation in 2019 as a deputy director on the Gender Equality team, where she led gender integration activities, shepherded implementation of the Women in Leadership strategy, managed the team’s strategy, planning, and management functions, and played a key role in the design and launch of the Gender Equality Division.

Earlier, Jackie was an executive at Accenture, the global management consulting firm, with expertise in innovation growth strategy, organizational effectiveness, and social impact strategy. She worked across industries to enable organizations to design and implement operating models that empowered teams to execute their strategies. Jackie has worked in 20 countries across the globe and has lived in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Tanzania, and Hong Kong.

Jackie has undergraduate degrees in art history and business from the University of San Diego and MBAs from Columbia Business School and London Business School.