Managing DirectorSkoll Foundation
Liz is Managing Director at the Skoll Foundation, where she founded and leads the Foundation’s collaborative funding practice, which has leveraged over $3 billion in additional funding to our portfolio partners. Prior to this role, Liz developed the Foundation's investment practice, guiding strategy and execution from scoping and pipeline development to deal structuring and portfolio management to impact evaluation and learning. This included overseeing the Foundation’s follow-on investment program, which was sunset in 2020. Liz is a practitioner and thought leader on innovative finance, systems change, and best practices in philanthropy. She is passionate about human dignity and works to bring the power closer to the pain to improve the human condition. She has a track record of driving philanthropic, donor, government, and investment capital to support social progress and impact, and prior to joining Skoll, Liz held positions with USAID, World Economic Forum, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. Liz is a Midwesterner at heart (KCMO!) and a globalist in spirit who never ceases to be moved by human kindness.
Economic OpportunityEducationEnvironmental SustainabilityFinancial ServicesHealthHealth DeliveryHuman RightsLivelihoodsOcean EcosystemsPeacePeace and Human RightsResponsible Supply ChainsSmallholder ProductivitySustainable Markets
Caribbean, Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, North America, Oceania, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa
