Ms. Sonal Shah
Founder, Indicorps and VP Goldman Sachs & Co.

Sonal is Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co. working with the Executive Office and currently working on developing a corporate citizenship policy for the firm. Simultaneously, she is the co-founder and director of Indicorps ( www.Indicorps.org ), a non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships for Indian Americans to apply their particular skills and expertise to work on targeted development projects in India . She was awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year award in 2003.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Sonal worked at two think tanks, the Center for American Progress and the Center for Global Development where she focused on policy issues such as the impact of HIV/AIDs and malaria on development, new aid financing mechanisms, trade, outsourcing, and post conflict reconstruction issues. She continues to serve as an adviser to both institutions. She also has extensive expertise in policy-making working in the US government at the Department of Treasury, the National Security Council, and as Treasury Attache to Bosnia and Kosovo on their post conflict development.