Paige Williams | National Center for Women & Information Technology

Paige Williams

Paige Williams
Microsoft
Director, AI and Research Global

Paige Williams, Microsoft Director in AI and Research Global, is chief of staff for the Corporate Vice President of Global Engineering T. K. “Ranga” Rengarajan.

AIR Global has purview over global engineering culture change, learning and development initiatives, experimentation models of innovation (including the world’s largest hackathon!), and Microsoft’s global development centers with offices in more than 30 countries around the world.

In this role Paige leads global engineering strategies focused on regional development and innovation, including creating a new company hackathon challenge, a Hack for Africa. Paige also partners with global engineering leaders on diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Paige has been at Microsoft working on the international side of the business for 25 years, having held roles supporting the Africa, India and Middle East region, managing the globalization and localization of the first Microsoft.com corporate website, and most recently spending a decade building a new program and corporate capability called Global Readiness; responsible for managing the company’s strategy, policies and standards for geopolitical risk, language enablement and internationalization.

Paige has contributed to publications, certification courses and at conferences worldwide on topics that live at the intersection of culture, digital marketing and technology.

Paige has a degree in English from Washington State University, and is a 2016 graduate of the University of Washington Foster School of Business, Executive Development.

Other Profiles you might like

A headshot of Erika Dawson Head smiling at the camera. She's wearing a black top, a beaded necklace and glasses.

Erika Lynn Dawson Head

Erika Lynn Dawson Head, M.S. is the founding Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusive Community Development and Director of the Massenberg STEM Institute at the Manning

Read More »
A headshot of Jeremy Young smiling at the camera, wearing a suit and glasses.

Jeremy C. Young

Jeremy C. Young is the Freedom to Learn program director at PEN America. In this role, he leads PEN America’s efforts to fight government censorship in educational institutions, with a particular focus on the higher education sector. He directs PEN America’s work on educational gag

Read More »
A headshot of Jen Kracha smiling at the camera in front of a blurred natural background

Jen Kracha

Jennifer (Jen) Kracha is a Project Engineer with TeachEngineering Digital Library – a free online collective of K-12 STEM resources – within NCWIT at the

Read More »
A photo of Duh Chaker smiling at the camera in front of a natural background.

Dua Chaker

Dua Chaker is a Senior Project Engineer at TeachEngineering- a free online collective of K-12 STEM resources – within NCWIT at the University of Colorado

Read More »
Scroll to Top