Tracy P. Palandjian

Tracy Palandjian is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance, a national impact finance and advisory nonprofit that builds innovative partnerships and investments to measurably improve lives. Since 2011, the firm has pioneered impact investments including the Social Impact Bond and the Career Impact Bond to mobilize capital at scale and deliver sustainable impact in communities across the United States. 

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. She is Vice Chair of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance and a Trustee of the Global Steering Group on Impact Investing.  

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 Surdna Foundation and The Boston Foundation.