Co-Founder and CEOEarthEnable
Gayatri Datar is the co-founder and CEO of EarthEnable, a social enterprise that aims to make living conditions healthier for the world’s poor, first by eliminating dirt floors. Dirt floors make people sick, and concrete is unaffordable to billions of people. EarthEnable solves this problem by selling a proprietary floor that is 80% cheaper than cement. Before founding EarthEnable, she was a Senior Consultant at Dalberg, where she focused on impact investing/social entrepreneurship, energy access, and agriculture, and a consultant at the World Bank conducting impact evaluations of agriculture projects. She has also consulted for the Government of Liberia’s Department of Revenue, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the IFC, and grassroots NGOs in India, Namibia, Nicaragua, Albania, and the United States. She holds a BA and MPA/ID from Harvard, and an MBA from Stanford, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar. She is an Echoing Green Fellow and a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.