Tracy Palandjian

Tracy Palandjian is CEO & Co-Founder of Social Finance, a national nonprofit and registered investment advisor. Prior to Social Finance, Palandjian was a Managing Director for eleven years at The Parthenon Group, where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice to support foundations and NGOs to accomplish their missions in the US and globally. Palandjian also worked at Wellington Management Company and McKinsey & Company. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Palandjian is a frequent speaker and writer on impact investing, social innovation, and results-oriented policymaking. Palandjian is a cofounder and Vice Chair of the US Impact Investing Alliance and a member of the boards of the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts, the Harvard Corporation, The Surdna Foundation, The Barr Foundation, and The Boston Foundation. She is also an Independent Director of Affiliated Managers Group. Palandjian graduated from Harvard College with a BA magna cum laude in Economics and holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.