Vijay Simhan

Biography

As Senior Director, Forced Labor & Human Trafficking, Vijay manages work that touches on issues of worker agency, safer labor migration, and corporate accountability, including leading work that seeks to improve the experience and well-being of migrant workers traveling South Asia and Africa to the Gulf.

As Senior Director, Racial Justice & Equity, he also leads an initiative that seeks to shift power and resources to BIPOC communities leading to a just, sustainable, and inclusive society. This place-based strategy works with key partners in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., with some national partners as well.

In addition, Vijay also serves as Director of the Rights and Dignity (RAD) initiative, which spans across the Omidyar Group (TOG) and exists to support and advance the rights and dignity of communities impacted by structures of oppression and marginalization, by transforming the tools of philanthropy.