Maura Pally is the Executive Director of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, where she oversees all Blackstone Charitable Foundation activity, leading strategy and execution of programs in support of Blackstone’s goal of fostering economic opportunity and career mobility for historically underrepresented groups.

Prior to joining Blackstone, Ms. Pally worked at the Clinton Foundation, where she was Executive Vice President overseeing programs, including the Clinton Global Initiative. Prior to that, she worked at Bloomberg Philanthropies and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the U.S. Department of State. She also served as Deputy General Counsel for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, as manager of Politics and Public Policy at Oxygen Media, and as Special Assistant in the office of the White House Counsel.

She received a BA from Brown University and a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She serves on the board of the Clinton Foundation.