Chris Jurgens serves as a senior director and member of the Program Leadership Team at Omidyar Network. In this role, Chris leads the firm’s portfolio of work focused on advancing responsible investing and corporate governance practices across the economy and in the technology sector. He also oversees the organization’s impact investing field-building portfolio. 

Prior to joining the firm, Chris was director of global partnerships at the US Agency for International Development, where he ran the agency’s programs focused on impact investing, entrepreneurship, and corporate partnerships. Previously, he worked at Accenture, where he was a partner and served as director of global programs for Accenture Development Partnerships, the firm’s not-for-profit international development consulting practice.

Chris serves in board and advisory roles for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, Blue Haven Initiative, the Catalytic Capital Consortium, Novata, and the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing. He has a master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a B.A. in economics and international studies from Miami University, where he was a Truman Scholar.