Lata N. Reddy is senior vice president, Inclusive Solutions at Prudential Financial and chair of The Prudential Foundation.

Reddy combines diversity strategies, impact investments, philanthropy, and corporate contributions with Prudential’s full business capabilities to promote inclusive economic opportunity and sustainable growth. Under Reddy’s leadership, Prudential became one of the first institutional investors to grow and manage an impact investing portfolio with $1 billion in addition to a yearly grant-making budget of $40 million through The Prudential Foundation, and a $15 million corporate contributions budget.

Prior to joining Prudential, she was a civil rights attorney with the U.S. Department of Education. Her dedication to promoting equity has spanned her career in the nonprofit, public and private sectors.

In addition to serving as chair of The Prudential Foundation and of the Newark Alliance, Reddy serves on the Advisory Board for the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation, and is a fellow of the Aspen Global Leaders Network. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Reddy was named to Mayor Ras J. Baraka’s Newark Reopening and Recovery Strikeforce in 2020, leading the Economic Recovery Committee.

Reddy holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law.