Vasundhara Dash
Senior Associate | Washington, D.C.
Vasundhara (Vasu) is a Senior Associate at TOTAL, where she provides strategic advisory, structures innovative financing solutions, and leads program management for initiatives spanning climate and carbon finance, energy and water access, employment and entrepreneurship, across Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. She brings over a decade of experience in international development, policy design and implementation, strategy, and operations across emerging markets. She has led programs with the United Nations and national and local governments, working at the intersection of public policy, program delivery, and grassroots implementation.
With the Government of India, she shaped flagship education, skilling, and entrepreneurship programs for underserved youth and led local economic development and digital innovation initiatives in remote, conflict-affected regions, under the Prime Minister’s Fellowship and the Ministry of Skills Development. At UNDP, she led large-scale programs on women’s economic empowerment and launched technology solutions to strengthen service delivery. She co-developed the UN Climate Convention’s Resilience Hubs at COP26 and 27, and has contributed to energy access and biodiversity programs across South Asia through several projects that integrated ecosystem protection with rural livelihoods.
Vasu holds an MPA from Harvard University and an MS in Environmental Science and Policy.
Prior to Total Impact Capital:
Trained in classical Indian dance and hatha yoga, she enjoys writing, hiking, museums, and astronomy.