# Vidhya Ramalingam

> Vidhya Ramalingam is the founder and CEO of Moonshot, a company that builds technology to interrupt online violence, abuse, and radicalization before it spills into the real world. Trained as an anthropologist who did field research inside white nationalist movements, she now runs digital interventions across more than 25 countries, testifies before legislatures on both sides of the Atlantic, and advises tech platforms and governments on keeping people safe online. Her core conviction is unfashionably simple: people can change, and the same sense of belonging that pulls someone into a hate movement can be used to pull them back out.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Moonshot
- **Organizations:** Moonshot, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), University of Oxford (COMPAS / School of Anthropology associate), Spotify Safety Advisory Council, Obama Foundation Leaders: Europe, Life After Hate (board)
- **Nationality:** American / British (daughter of Indian immigrants)
- **Education:** M.Phil, Migration Studies, University of Oxford
- **Known for:** Founded and scaled Moonshot, operating across more than 25 countries, Led the EU's first intergovernmental response to white supremacist terrorism after the 2011 Norway attacks, Recognized by Fortune's Most Powerful Women

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Following the Norway attacks, led the European Union's first intergovernmental initiative on racially motivated terrorism and extremism
- **pre-2015** — Senior Fellow on Far-Right Extremism and Intolerance at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD); earlier work with IPPR
- **2015** — Founded Moonshot (originally Moonshot CVE) in September
- **2020** — Selected as an Obama Foundation Leaders: Europe participant
- **2021** — Moonshot delivered crisis intervention to roughly 270,000 high-risk users around the US Capitol breach
- **2022** — Moonshot named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies list
- **2023** — Moonshot again named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies list

## Achievements

- Founded and scaled Moonshot, operating across more than 25 countries
- Led the EU's first intergovernmental response to white supremacist terrorism after the 2011 Norway attacks
- Recognized by Fortune's Most Powerful Women
- Moonshot named twice (2022, 2023) to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies
- Delivered a TED/TEDx talk, 'Why I talk to white supremacists'
- Regularly testifies before the US Congress, UK Parliament, and Canada's House of Commons
- Serves on Spotify's Safety Advisory Council
- Selected as an Obama Foundation Leader (Europe, 2020)

## Latest updates

- **2024-06** — Speaking as Founder & CEO of Moonshot at the Aspen Ideas Festival
- **2025** — Continued participation as a speaker at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit

## Links

- Website: https://moonshotteam.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidhyara/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/vidhya_ra
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otv0WVgHc3U

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Last updated: 2026-06-04