Sonal Shah
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Sonal Shah: Board Chair, Consumer Reports; Senior Advisor, Results Prism Advisory
Sonal Shah is an economist and entrepreneur who has spent her career focused on actionable innovation in government, business, and the non-profit sector. She is currently Board Chair at Consumer Reports and a senior advisor at Results Prism Advisory. Previously, she served as the chief executive officer at The Texas Tribune and interim executive vice president at United Way Worldwide. Sonal also founded The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) in Houston and was the founder and leader of Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation.
Sonal led the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the Obama administration and served as an international economist at the Department of the Treasury. In the private sector, she led Goldman Sachs’ environmental strategy and Google’s global technology and impact investment initiatives.
Sonal earned her B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. in economics from Duke University.