Julie McCarthy

Julie McCarthy is director of the Open Society Fiscal Governance Program. From 2011 to 2012, she served as director of the support unit at the Open Government Partnership, and prior to that, she was a senior adviser at the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, working with the Obama administration and the Brazilian government to develop and launch the Open Government Partnership. 

In 2009, McCarthy was selected as a Franklin Fellow and Peacebuilding Adviser at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, helping to launch a multimillion dollar peacebuilding program in Liberia. Prior to this, McCarthy directed the Open Society Foundations’ Revenue Watch Program and then cofounded the Revenue Watch Institute, serving as its deputy director until 2009.

In 2004, she was the researcher/writer for the Open Society Foundations’ award-winning Iraq Revenue Watch Project, and she also coordinated the Open Society Foundations work on the Millennium Challenge Account. McCarthy graduated from Cornell University in 2002 and received an MA in international relations from Yale University in 2012.