Maxine Williams

Maxine Williams, is the  Chief Diversity of Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook since September 2013. She serves as a member of Meta’s most senior executive leadership team under the CEO.

"For Facebook, diversity is imperative to our future growth," she told USA Today's Jessica Guynn. "If we don't get it right, we risk losing relevance in an incredibly diverse world."

“I did come from a people who, through the pressures of slavery and indentureship, developed a faith in achieving the impossible along with a particularly high tolerance for risk. The adage that is often heard in Trinidad is “just try a ting!” In other words, assume no limit to your potential to overcome obstacles and give every challenge your best shot,” she wrote on LeanIn.org.

Work Experience

• Chief Diversity Officer, Meta
• Member Board Of Directors , Doma · Part-time
• Board Director, Massy Group of Companies
• Director of Diversity Programs, White & Case LLP
• On-Air Journalist, Host, Presenter, Journalist, Host, Interviewer
• Attorney-at-Law, Chancery Chambers
• Lecturer, University of the West Indies
• Senior Manager, Caribbean Human Rights Network

Board and Advisor Roles

• Board Member, Roundabout Theatre Company
• Board Member, Massy Group of Companies

Education

• BA Jurisprudence (LLB), Law, University of Oxford, 1995
• BA, Caribbean Studies, Yale University, 1991
• Directors College, Stanford Law School, 2019
• Rhodes Scholar 1992
• Graduate of St. Joseph's Convent, Port of Spain