Maxine Williams is a Trinidadian lawyer. Currently she is the Global Head of Diversity for Facebook. Previously, she worked as the Director of Diversity at the international law firm of White & Case. As a lawyer, she has represented clients in civil and criminal courts both in the UK and her in her native Trinidad. She has also worked as a television host, an actress and a professor, teaching law at the University of the West Indies. In 2013 she was included in Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 list. As a Rhodes Scholar, she studied Jurisprudence.