Tamara Watts

Tamara Watts is an attorney with 25 years’ experience advising tax-exempt organizations on a wide range of legal issues, as both in-house and outside counsel. Watts currently acts as Vice President, Legal and General Counsel for The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. Previously, she was a Managing Deputy Director within the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation legal team, primarily supporting teams within the Global Health and Global Development Divisions and Finance.

Watts is also a former partner and Co-Practice Group Lead of the K&L Gates, Tax-Exempt Organizations Practice Group and served as Co-Chair of the International Philanthropy Subcommittee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association for more than a decade.

She has spoken frequently on a variety of legal topics relevant to tax-exempt organizations’ domestic and global philanthropic activities. Watts received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Stanford University and her Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School.