Olivia Leland, ex officio

Olivia Leland is Founder and CEO at Co-Impact, bringing to that role more than 20 years of experience in philanthropy, government, and the non-profit sector.

Olivia worked with Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett as the founding director of the Giving Pledge, an effort to help address society’s most pressing problems by encouraging philanthropy globally. In this role, she was responsible for building out the concept from inception, as well as overseeing the strategy and implementation for this effort which now has more than 200 families committed from around the world. Prior to that, she led a cross- foundation strategy effort at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and served as associate director for financial and private sector development at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. She has consulted on microfinance and private sector development and was a strategy consultant at Monitor Group, where she focused on branding, market research and venture philanthropy.

Olivia sits on the board of the Full Frame Initiative, a non-profit organization that works to break cycles of poverty and violence through systems change. In 2014, she was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. Olivia received her AB in Social Studies from Harvard University and MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science.