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Tracy Palandjian

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Tracy Palandjian

Co-Founder and CEO, Social Finance
Tracy Palandjian

Tracy Palandjian is Co-Founder & CEO of Social Finance, a nonprofit organization which is leading the development of Pay for Success financing and Social Impact Bonds, an innovative public-private partnership that mobilizes capital to drive social progress. For more than a decade, Tracy has committed to re-imagining the role of the capital markets in enabling measurable social impact. Prior to co-founding Social Finance US in 2011, Tracy was a Managing Director at The Parthenon Group, and also worked at Wellington Management Co., and McKinsey & Co. Tracy is co-author of Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes, and serves as vice chair of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance. She is a trustee at the Surdna Foundation (where she chairs the Investment Committee), and a Director of Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE: AMG). Tracy is a former Vice Chair of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and continues to serve on various Standing and Visiting Committees at Harvard University. A native of Hong Kong, Tracy graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.