David Williamson

David Williamson has served as the Managing Director of the consulting firm Bernuth & Williamson since 2002, serving nonprofits, foundations, and academic clients from around the world in the areas of strategy, change management, and organizational effectiveness. He previously served for 13 years in senior management positions at The Nature Conservancy, including six years as Director of Communications (1997-2002) and as Vice President for Marketing. In addition to David’s long association with Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership, he has served as an adjunct professor of Business Administration at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and has lectured on nonprofit management at Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. While serving as a visiting Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute, David undertook pioneering research in capacity building in nonprofits and measuring nonprofit impact. This work, which first appeared in the McKinsey Quarterly, has been widely cited in academic literature. He also served as a Fellow at the Salzburg Seminar and with the Korea Development Institute in Seoul. A summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, David has also previously held leadership positions on the board of directors of four nonprofit institutions.