LEAP Fellow

Anthony Senanayake

Anthony is passionate about the use of data and evidence to alleviate poverty worldwide particularly at the intersection of education and public policy. He currently works as the Chief Strategic Officer at Fortify Health, an organization seeking to reduce the incidence of anaemia through fortification of wheat flour. Prior to this he worked at an international NGO called IDinsight focusing his efforts on leveraging robust development economics tools in the furtherance of this passion.

Anthony graduated from the Yale School of Management in 2020 with an MBA and worked as a researcher with the International Growth Center in partnership with Yale University on the design of evaluations looking at the impact of rural electrification in Sierra Leone.