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Anushka Ratnayake

Anushka Ratnayake

Anushka is the CEO and Founder of myAgro. Anushka is recognized as a Global Leader in designing digital financial tools for smallholder farmers and designing for greater gender inclusion. She's a serial entrepreneur who has held leadership roles in some of the most awarded and recognized social enterprises in the last two decades - Kiva.org, One Acre Fund, and now myAgro. She's a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, TED speaker, and Skoll Awardee for Social Entrepreneurship. She lives in Senegal, where myAgro is headquartered. myAgro is on track to serve more than 195,000 farmers across West Africa in 2023. Year-over-year, we help farmers increase their income. In 2022, our farmers increased their income by 35%. myAgro's North Star is to reach 1 million farmers by 2026. Anushka also serves on the Board of Rippleworks Foundation in addition to the myAgro Board.