Sonal Shah Biography

Sonal is an economist and entrepreneur who has spent her career in the public and commercial sectors focusing on economic policy and practical innovation. She is a worldwide thought leader in social innovation policy, encompassing impact investing, data, and technology for social good, as well as civic engagement through government, industry, philanthropy, and civil society. She has led policy innovations for President Obama in the White House and President Clinton at the Treasury Department. She provides a distinct and varied background. As an international economist, she helped establish Bosnia's central bank, worked on post-conflict rebuilding in Kosovo, and executed poverty reduction methods in Africa as well as financial crises in Asia and Latin America. In the corporate sector, she oversaw technology for civic engagement and impact investing efforts at Google as the head of Global Development Initiatives, and she established and ran Goldman Sachs' environmental strategy, which included investments in clean technologies. She was President Obama's Deputy Assistant to the President when she established the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. She led the Technology Innovation and Government Reform group on President Obama's transition team. Sonal led efforts in the Administration to establish innovative finance mechanisms for service delivery, leveraging technology to better engage citizens in government, establishing new public-private partnerships, and supporting and training leadership across government (political and civic service) to institutionalize innovative practices. Sonal began her career as an international economist in the United States Department of Treasury, where she worked on relevant development challenges such as post-conflict development in Bosnia, the Asian financial crisis, and poverty reduction in Africa.

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