Joins Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: President Barack Obama has nominated another Indian American for a key administration post, naming prominent businesswoman Shamina Singh as a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service for a term expiring in Oct. 2019.
Singh’s nomination has now been submitted to the Senate for review, according to a White House announcement on Monday.
Singh currently serves as the Executive Director of the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth. She joined MasterCard in 2013 as the Global Director for Government Services and Solutions, where she expanded MasterCard’s business capabilities to digitize social subsidy programs in over 40 countries, according to the World Economic Forum.
Prior to joining MasterCard, she led Government and Public Affairs for Nike and spent half a decade with Citigroup’s Global Community Development Group. She also spent 15 years in the public sector holding senior positions within the Clinton Presidential Administration and the U.S. House of Representatives.
Singh was executive director for the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders from 1999 to 2001.
In 2002, she was the deputy campaign manager for Ron Kirk’s Senate campaign and in 2003 she served as a senior advisor to U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Singh has a graduate degree in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School for Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and has completed executive programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Yale’s Jackson Institute for Diplomacy and the India School of Business.