Elisha London

Elisha is a social entrepreneur and mental health advocate who has been at the forefront of catalysing the global movement for funding and action on mental health. She is the Founder of United For Global Mental Health, and is now an advisor to leading companies, funders and high profile individuals working to improve mental health around the world and CEO of Prospira Global. She established the global mental health insight and advisory firm Prospira Global in 2021 in response to demand from leading global companies and funders seeking to understand, design, implement and measure effective mental health solutions. Under Elisha’s leadership, Prospira Global has been recognised for its innovative and high impact strategic advisory insights on financing for mental health across a global client base that is grounded in lived experience, evidence, and authentic impact. She was instrumental in creating the Global Business Collaboration for Better Workplace Mental Health, launched at Davos in 2021 to create a platform for collaboration between businesses and mental health experts. She has also been a regular member of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Council on Mental Health, and co-Chaired the Global Futures Council on Neuro-technologies in 2019. She was honoured for her leadership in 2020 when she was appointed as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

She also sits on the Kate Spade New York Social Impact Council and Selena Gomez’s Rare Impact Fund Mental Health Advisory Council.

She holds an MBA from TRIUM (NYU New York, LSE London, HEC Paris) and an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics.