Elisha London is an entrepreneur and global mental health advocate. She is an advisor to leading global companies, brands, and influential individuals on mental health and regularly speaks and writes on the global mental health crisis and the role of the private sector.
She established Prospira Global in 2021 to respond to the growing business demand for strategic advisory and support on mental health strategies, in particular for businesses needing custom support to meet this demand across borders.
Across her career Elisha has established a number of national and global initiatives, and worked for organisations including the UK Department for International Development, PWC, the Overseas Development Institute and The World Bank. She was the founding UK Director of the Global Poverty Project (now “Global Citizen”), and following her own personal experience of mental ill health she was appointed as Campaign Director for the Head Together Campaign, spearheaded by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
In 2017 Elisha drew upon her experience to understand the huge gap that exists in addressing mental health around the world and brought together the team to establish United for Global Mental Health. She was UnitedGMH’s first CEO until 2021 and now supports the organisation as Founder and Advisor to the Board.
She holds an MBA from TRIUM (NYU New York, LSE London, HEC Paris), and an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics.
Elisha Co-Chaired the Global Futures Council on Neuro technologies in 2019 has been a regular member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Mental Health. In 2020 she was honoured for her leadership in 2020 when she was appointed as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
In biology, pioneer species start the process of preparing an ecosystem for life. Once established, they are joined by more species and a stable community begins to form.
Uno de cada siete jóvenes de entre 10 y 19 años de todo el mundo sufre problemas de salud mental -sobre todo ansiedad y depresión- pero la mayoría no tiene acceso a servicios de apoyo o t...
全球范围内，七分之一的10-19岁年轻人患有精神健康问题（主要是焦虑和抑郁），其中大多数无法获得支持服务或治疗。
Most of the one in seven young people aged 10-19 worldwide who experience mental health problems — predominantly anxiety and depression — are unable to access support services or treatment.
The United Nations’ Paris Agreement to keep global warming to well below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels – and its ensuing legal, financial and implementation frameworks – means that we c...
Los jóvenes de hoy se enfrentan a un número cada vez mayor de problemas de salud mental, y los sistemas de todo el mundo son insuficientes para satisfacer la gran y creciente demanda.
Young people today face an increasing number of challenges to their mental health, and systems worldwide are insufficient to meet the large and growing demand.
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La crisis mundial de salud mental podría costarle al mundo 16 billones de dólares para 2030. Con el aumento de los trastornos mentales en todos los países del mundo, ningún lugar es inmune.
The global mental health crisis could cost the world $16 trillion by 2030. With mental disorders on the rise in every country in the world, nowhere is immune.
