Sonal Shah

Sonal Shah is the Vice President of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs in New York City. She was the Director of Programs and Operations at the Center for Global Development and was responsible for managing the daily operations of the center, serving as a strategic adviser to the president and developing and managing policy and advocacy programs for the Center.

Before she entered the non-profit world Sonal worked at the Department of Treasury on various economic issues and regions of the world, most recently as the Director of African Nations, covering all of sub-Saharan Africa. She has extensive experience in post-conflict countries, working as the Treasury attache in Bosnia and Kosovo after the war. She also worked as the senior adviser to the Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary at the Department of Treasury during the Asian financial crisis.

In addition, Sonal is co-founder of a non-profit organization called Indicorps, a new, U.S.-based non-profit organization that offers one-year service fellowships for Americans of Indian origin to work on specific developmental projects in India. Indicorps develops projects with entrepreneurial and innovative non-governmental organizations in India with the aim of fostering an exchange of ideas and expertise and cultivating Indian-American leaders in the United States to have a better understanding of India and the challenges of development.