Sridhar Prasad

Sridhar Prasad is a partner in Bridgespan’s Boston office. As part of Bridgespan’s Philanthropy and Global Development practice areas, Sridhar has worked with various nonprofits, foundations, and philanthropic collaboratives.

Sridhar has supported a wide range of organizations, including Women’s World Banking, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and The Audacious Project. His work focuses on building platforms that harness and direct philanthropic capital—reducing barriers for aspiring philanthropists while increasing access to scale capital for high-impact change agents.

Sridhar has co-authored publications including, “Philanthropy Bets Big on Sustainable Development Goals” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2018), “Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2016), “A National Growth Plan Rooted in One State’s Success” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2015), and “Lessons for Nonprofits Seeking to Grow a Promising Program” (Bridgespan.org, 2014). He has also presented on how organizations can become “big bettable” at the Skoll World Forum and the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Summit.

Sridhar serves on the boards of Alight and MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society), and on the Board of Advisors for WGBH. He holds a BA in history from Columbia University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.