BOARD: Eshanthi Ranasinghe

Eshanthi is an impact investing and strategy expert with twenty years of experience in social impact innovation, funding and futures. Most recently, she was the Managing Director of Discovery & Insight for The Audacious Project at TED, where she led the team’s work identifying and cultivating a pipeline of bold ideas with the potential to change the world. The Audacious Project has catalyzed $8B for organizations working across 50 countries in areas such as abortion access, human rights, ocean research, criminal justice reform, plastic cleanup, girls education, and more. Prior to Audacious, Eshanthi founded the Exploration & Future Sensing unit at Omidyar Network, where she led their work using foresight techniques and diverse networks to anticipate change, identify blind spots, and experiment in emergent areas of impact such as responsible technology, mutual aid infrastructure, digital identity, and misinformation. Eshanthi has worked in early social ventures in South Asia, management consulting at the Boston Consulting Group, and transactions advisory at Ernst & Young.