Thursday, August 26, 2010

Sonal Shah


Sonal R. Shah (born May 20, 1968), is an American economist and public official. Since April 2009, she has been serving as the Director of the new Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the White House. Previously, Shah was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project and was the head of Global Development Initiatives, a philanthropic arm of Google.org.

Sonal Shah was born in Mumbai, India. She moved to the USA in 1972 at the age of 4, and grew up in Houston, Texas. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Economics in 1990 and received a Master’s degree in Economics from Duke University.

According to salary details released by the White House, Sonal Shah, Deputy Assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama and the Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, becomes "The highest paid Indian-American in the White House", with a gross earnings of $10,000 or about Rs 4.65 lakh each month.

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