William Smith

Founder & Board Chair 

Will is a social entrepreneur from the United States who has co-founded three nonprofits and one social enterprise across the U.S., Liberia, and Morocco, including LEAD Edu. He is currently the Founder & CEO of Charter Oak Advisory. Will holds an MSc in African Studies from Oxford, a BA in Government and French from the College of William & Mary (Phi Beta Kappa), and a degree in social entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University. He is a recipient of the Jerry Yeagley Award (2018) and Cordes Fellowship (2018), and serves on UNICEF and FC Barcelona's Working Group on Sport for Development.