Caitlin Williams

Caitlin joined Social Finance in 2021 with experience from both the public and private sectors. Specialising in finance for the social sectors, her recent work includes designing an outcomes-based approach to women’s education and economic empowerment and a public-private partnership to promote access to kindergarten education in Jordan. Broadening out her expertise, Caitlin has managed and led a number of projects in the People and Planet space, particularly looking at how businesses delivering social value can benefit from participating in the Voluntary Carbon Market. Caitlin’s capacity building work includes co-developing frameworks to assess the readiness of ecosystems and service providers to engage in outcomes-based partnerships and designing a course on Development Impact Bonds for a bilateral development partner.

Previously, Caitlin worked for an international development consultancy where she focused on Education Finance, specialising in how public finance can best support the realisation of SDG 4. This built on her experience as an Economist (Overseas Development Institute fellow) in the Ministry of Education, Ghana, where she was part of the Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring and Evaluation division for two years. She began her career working at the Department for Work and Pensions and holds an MSc from the School of Oriental and African Studies, part of the University of London.