David T. Hsu is a Senior Director of Programs at Omidyar Network, the social change venture established by philanthropists Pam and Pierre Omidyar.

A strategist and social scientist with 20 years of cross-sector experience, David previously worked at the Hollywood-based impact consultancy Propper Daley, community organizing tech startup NationBuilder, University of Pennsylvania, and the tech section of the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division.

David holds a Ph.D. in international political economy from Princeton University and B.A. from Duke University. He is board chair at Inclusive Action and vice chair at CoGenerate.

Recent Events and Projects
• Speaker at SoCal Grantmakers Annual Conference Better Together (2024)
• Speaker at MIT x Santa Fe Institute Workshop, Building a Bigger and Better US (2024)
• Working Group Co-Chair, Council on Foundations Building Together national conference (2024)
• Quoted in “Trust for Civic Life Directs First Investment into Rural Efforts Strengthening Local Civic Life” (2024)
• Speaker at Brookings Institution, Seeing and Reaching Others: A discussion about the power of recognition and belonging to strengthen divided societies (2024)
• Convener of “Music in a Time of Discord: Building Cultures of Belonging Workshop” at the GRAMMY Museum (2024)
• Recognized in “Most Intriguing New Program,” Inside Philanthropy Awards (2023)
• Quoted in Inside the Omidyar Network’s Push to Build a “Culture of Belonging” in America (2023)
• Author of Announcing Omidyar Network’s Newest Focus Area: Building Cultures of Belonging (2022)
• Editor of PORTALS to Beautiful Futures (Omidyar Network x Guild of Future Architects, 2021)
• Contributor to A Day of Unreasonable Conversation (Propper Daley, 2019)
• Author of Untethered: A Primer on Social Isolation (independent, 2018)