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Shivani Garg Patel

Chief Strategy Officer, Skoll Foundation

Biography

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.

Regional Focus

Central and Southern Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa

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