Tracy Jooste

Location: Washington DC, USA

Tracy Jooste is the Associate Director of the Governance Action Hub at R4D. She collaborates with global and local partners to co-create and test innovative governance solutions and plays a cross-cutting strategy and management role.

With over fifteen years of experience driving equity and accountability initiatives, Tracy has contributed to shaping inclusive public policies, budgets, and governance processes. Most recently, she led partnerships that enhanced access to water, sanitation, and healthcare services for communities living in informal settlements across South Africa and spearheaded a gender-responsive budgeting initiative. She has held leadership positions across the public sector, non-profit organizations, the private sector, and academia.

Driven by a belief that governance impacts almost every aspect of our lives, she is passionate about collaborative governance as a way to foster greater equity. Tracy is an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics and a member of board of the Isandla Institute.