Shivani Garg Patel is Chief Strategy Officer at the Skoll Foundation. She has been a social entrepreneur, investor and advisor. Earlier in her career, Shivani was a strategy consultant at McKinsey and product manager at Microsoft.
Prior to Skoll, she was Co-Founder and Managing Director of Samahope, a non-profit that invested in local medical providers who provide critical medical care to women and children in poor communities around the globe. In 2015, Samahope joined forces with CaringCrowd.org, a platform for global health funding and awareness powered by Johnson & Johnson.
Her technology-driven social innovation work has spanned the Grameen Foundation, World Bank and World Health Organization. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.
Economic Opportunity • Education • Environmental Sustainability • Health • Health Delivery • Livelihoods • Peace and Human Rights • Sustainable Markets • Women's and Girls' Education
Central and Southern Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa
