Matt Edmundson is the Co-Founder and Co-President of Violet Health, a social enterprise based in Bangalore, India, focused on creating nutritional products for malnourished populations. He was previously Operations Officer at RefugePoint, founded by Sasha Chanoff.
Matt was a member of the EPIIC colloquium in 2003-2004, and a founder member of Exposure. He graduated from Tufts in 2005 with a degree in Economics, and has an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. With the critical support of the Institute for Global Leadership, Matt travelled to Hargeisa, Somaliland, as part of his undergraduate thesis looking at the costs to lack of international recognition for the northern Somali statelet.
Matt was one of the most active, influential and impactful members of the Institute. His energy was extraordinary, as befitted the rugby player he was, and yet it always amazed me, as it was expended in an almost effortless, and consistently in a modest manner.
His photography with Exposure was brilliant, whether is was in Kakuma Camp in Kenya, or Tehran. As an alum he advised our PNDP’s students. This profile speaks to his seminal work addressing Iron deficiency in India.