George Williams II

George Williams II

Inaugural Economic Recovery Corps Fellow with the U.S. Department of Commerce

Hometown: Washington, DC; Age: 35

George leads a $67M+ mega-site initiative integrating housing, workforce, and industrial strategy with the Fund for Our Economic Future in Ohio. He is the Founder of Diversity Global Institutes, Director at Devland Innovation, and Senior Fellow & Director of Programs at the African Legacies Institute. His career spans service at the White House, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Markham Group as well as fellowships with the German Marshall Fund, Mosaic Taiwan, the Pacific Forum, and the Helsinki Geo-economics School, in addition to space and nuclear policy work at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.