Juliet Mureriwa
Program Director, Office of the President
Juliet Mureriwa is a program director in the Office of the President at Ford. She oversees a team working towards delivering the strategic goals of the president’s discretionary grantmaking mandate and leads the president’s cross-foundation strategic initiatives, working closely with United States, international, and regional program teams to ensure domestic and global alignment. She also serves as a key partner on the foundation’s internal efforts to provide a culture of excellence.
Juliet is a public interest lawyer and an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. She has extensive knowledge in public international law and close to two decades of experience working for international philanthropic organizations and managing programs advocating for and advancing the rule of law, democracy, and human rights. Prior to joining the foundation in 2015, she was a grantmaker at the Open Society Foundations, Freedom House, and other international philanthropy organizations. She is on the Board of Trustees of Volunteers of Legal Service and the International Refugee Assistance Project, a founding board member of the Accelerator Project, and sits on the advisory council of the McCain Global Leaders Program.
Juliet holds a bachelor of laws and a master’s degree in public international law from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
