Shivani Garg Patel
Professional Faculty
Shivani Garg Patel is Chief Strategy Officer at the Skoll Foundation. With experience as a social entrepreneur, investor, and advisor, she brings a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary view to her work. Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Shivani co-founded and led Samahope, a non-profit that invested in local medical providers delivering critical medical care in low-income communities around the world. Earlier in her career, Shivani was a strategy consultant and product manager in the private and public sectors.
Shivani is a proud and under-caffeinated mom of two. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.