Charity Wallace, founder and president of Wallace Global Impact, is a strategic, mission-driven, and pioneering executive leader with expertise in social impact, foreign policy, global development and women’s empowerment. She most recently served as Sr Vice President and Managing Director at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, overseeing the team working to cultivate private sector investment in projects across strategic regions and sectors and projects that empower women and applied a gender lens across DFC’s investment portfolio. Wallace was the founding Vice President of the Global Women’s Initiatives at the Bush Institute and served as Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff to Laura Bush.

Wallace served in the Bush Administration for all eight years, most notably as Director of Advance for the First Lady and Deputy Chief of Protocol of the United States. She earned her master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of Akola Academy, and the Advisory Boards of the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, All in Together,    and 4word.