Pamela Reeves is an international development and policy strategist who advises governments, foundations, and companies.  She is currently the Vice Chancellor of Brown University.  She served in the Obama Administration as director of Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s International Fund for Women and Girls at the U.S. Department of State. She has contributed to global strategic agenda-setting as advisor to Nike and Mars, Inc., and as the consulting senior advisor on gender strategy to the executive office of Melinda Gates.

Reeves served as the U.N. human rights officer in Liberia during that country’s civil war, and has worked in over 30 countries on governance transitions over the past three decades. Reeves serves on the board of directors of Kakenya’s Dream, a network of schools and health centers for Maasai children in Kenya, and on the Board of Governors of the John Carter Brown Library.  She was appointed to the board of the Fulbright Commission of Israel in 2024. Reeves holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. from Yale University.