Sonal Shah, Founder of Indicorps and Anuja Khemka’02
Sonal Shah is Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co. working with the Executive Office on developing and implementing a corporate citizenship and environmental policy for the firm. She is also co-founder of Indicorps (www.Indicorps.org), a U.S.-based non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships for Americans of Indian origin to work on specific development projects in India. Indicorps designs and develops projects with local organizations in advance to maximize the impact and to foster an exchange of ideas and expertise. Indicorps’ aim is to cultivate a new generation of Indian-American leaders in the United States that have a better understanding of India, can understand the challenges of development and be the catalysts for change.
Sonal Shah was the Associate Director for Economic and National Security Policy at the Center for American Progress. She worked on trade, outsourcing and post conflict reconstruction issues. Prior to joining the Center, she was the Director of Programs and Operations at the Center for Global Development managing the daily operations and serving as a strategic adviser to the president. She also developed and managed policy and advocacy programs for the Center. Before that she worked for eight years at the Department of Treasury on various economic issues and regions of the world. She was the Director of the office covering sub Saharan Africa, worked in Bosnia and Kosovo after the war, and served as the senior adviser to the Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary at the Department of Treasury during the Asian financial crisis.
Location: McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
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