Singh is at present Executive Director, MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth.
By Deepak Chitnis
WASHINGTON, DC: President Barack Obama has nominated yet another Indian American to a high-ranking government post: Shamina Singh, who has been tapped to join the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
Singh is currently the Executive Director of the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, a position she stepped into just last month. She is also the global director of MasterCard’s Public Private Partnership group’s Government Social Program, and spent two years before that as a senior advisor to MSL Group, a Paris-based public relations company with offices in the US.
Additional credits on Singh’s resume include service as the vice-president of Government and Public Affairs for Nike from 2010-2011, serving as the COO for Citigroup’s Global Development Community from 2005-2010, holding the position of deputy director for America Votes for a year before that, and working as an advisor for several high-profile lawmakers, including Nancy Pelosi in 2002. Singh also worked in several governmental offices throughout the 1990s, at both the state and federal levels.
Along with Singh, who has over 15 years of experience in the public sector, Obama nominated a number of other luminaries to become members of the CNCS, including former US Ambassador to Yemen Matthew H. Tueller.
“I am honored that these talented individuals have decided to join this Administration and serve our country,” Obama said in announcing the nominations. “I look forward to working with them in the months and years to come.”
Founded in 1990 by then-President George H.W. Bush, the CNCS is a federal agency that engages with several military and community-based outreach organizations to encourage volunteering and general service for America. Headquartered in the nation’s capital, they have an annual budget of just over one billion dollars, and have a number of ongoing programs with organizations like Learn and Serve America, and AmeriCorps.
Singh earned her B.S. degree from Old Dominion University, located in the area of Virginia Beach. She then went on to the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her Master of Public Administration degree from the University’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.