Moitreyee Sinha is the CEO and founder of citiesRISE, a multi-stakeholder initiative supporting young people around the world to cultivate the core capacities central to inner development, mental health and wellbeing. citiesRISE is contributing to a future grounded in meaning, belonging and hope through a combination of R&D, innovation scaling and movement building initiatives.

Originally from India, Moitreyee has been guided by the core belief that everything is connected, and that large-scale social transformation happens when people, communities and institutions work together. Moitreyee spent 10 years in research and development at General Electric (GE), where she successfully led multidisciplinary teams, leveraging diverse skill sets to find ways to translate discoveries across sectors. From R&D, she moved to leading GE Foundation’s Global Health portfolio in 22 countries, forging connections across cultures and sectors to build multi-stakeholder initiatives in maternal child health and technology for health. With citiesRISE, Moitreyee brings her unique vision for collective action to the issue of mental health, integrating the best of modern science, ancient/traditional wisdom and communities’ own experiences.