Biography
Katie Smith Milway, senior communications officer at the Gates Foundation, has a background in journalism, nonprofit management, strategy consulting and philanthropy advising. Her advisory, MilwayPLUS, brought data-driven research, multimedia content development, and campaigns for change to foundation client-collaborators.
Prior, she led The Bridgespan Group's global knowledge practice and helped launch its India office. Before Bridgespan, Katie spent 14 years at Bain & Company, consulting to clients in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, then helped build Bain's global marketing service, as founding editorial director and global publisher
A graduate of Stanford and INSEAD, Katie began her journalism career at The Wall Street Journal, and her nonprofit service at Food for the Hungry. Her work in sustainable development across four continents includes program design and measurement, donor development, communications, organizational behavior, and authoring 8 books for adults and kids.