Audrey Selian
Director of Artha Impact & Co-Founder of Artha Networks
Audrey Selian is Director of Artha Impact at Rianta Capital Zurich AG, where she has led the Singh Family Trust’s impact investment advisory work since 2006. She has overseen many dozens of investments across India in sectors such as health, livelihoods, WASH, agribusiness, and energy – focused on positive business models and inclusive, last-mile solutions. Audrey also sits on the boards of several Artha portfolio companies and advises a range of funds and nonprofits globally.
She is the co-founder of Artha Networks Inc. (ANI), a SaaS platform supporting investor collaboration and deal discovery, and founded the Artha Impact platform in India – an ecosystem of 170+ investors, 80 enterprise support organizations, and hundreds of social enterprises. Audrey is also co-founder of Impact for Breakfast, a global community of 5,400+ impact investors across 50+ cities, as well as of Baraka Impact Finance and Impact Hub Yerevan in Armenia. She previously served as advisor to Halloran Philanthropies and holds roles on several investment committees and advisory boards. Audrey holds a Ph.D. in Technology Policy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, was a doctoral fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and earned degrees from the London School of Economics and Wellesley College. Audrey is a frequent speaker on impact investing and technology for systems change, and published The Business of Building a Better World published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers in 2022. She is based near Geneva, Switzerland and is a mother of two.
