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Tracy Palandjian is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance, a national nonprofit and registered investment advisor. Since 2011, the organization has sparked a national conversation about new funding models to tackle systemic challenges and has mobilized over $400 million in new investments designed to achieve improved outcomes across a range of issue areas, including economic mobility, health, and housing. In 2024, the organization launched the Social Finance Institute to advance the field through actionable research and educational outreach. Prior to Social Finance, Palandjian was a Managing Director for eleven years at The Parthenon Group, where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice and worked with foundations and NGOs to accomplish their missions in the U.S. and globally. Palandjian also worked at Wellington Management Company and McKinsey & Company. She is an author of Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships Are Advancing Economic Mobility, a book published by Social Finance and the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Philadelphia, and co-author of Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes. Palandjian graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in Economics and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School. She is a member of the Harvard Corporation and serves on the boards of The Barr Foundation, The Surdna Foundation and The Boston Foundation. She is also the Co-Founder and Vice Chair of the US Impact Investing Alliance.