Vidhya Ramalingam
Founder and CEO, Moonshot
Vidhya Ramalingam is founder and CEO of Moonshot, a company working to end online harms using evidence, ethics and human rights. Recognized internationally for leading policy responses to white supremacist extremism and terrorism, she was previously a senior fellow and a research and policy manager working on extremism and terrorism at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Following the 2011 attacks in Norway, she led the European Union’s first intergovernmental initiative on white supremacist terrorism and extremism. Ramalingam serves on the board of Life After Hate, an organization of former white supremacists that helps individuals leave hate groups. Moonshot was named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies lists in 2022 and 2023.