"THE DELHI MODEL OFFERS THE SUREST ROAD MAP TO BUILDING A DEVELOPED INDIA"
Mr Shah you have had a rather interesting academic and career trajectory. Equipped with an engineering degree from IIT Madras, you opted to do your masters in public administration at Columbia University and then joined MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. You were deputy director for J-PAL in South Asia when you opted to join the newly formed Aam Admi Party government. Were these sharp turns in your career graph driven by a latent aspiration for public service?
Not latent, but a strong commitment towards public service is what influenced these decisions. For the few years while I was pursuing a corporate career after IIT Madras, I would often complain about the state of our governance. The contrast between Indian companies competing with the best in the world, while our governments were delivering third-world outcomes started gnawing at my conscience. I decided to be part of the change. From the beginning, I knew public policy was the lever that could positively impact the lives of crores of Indians.
So I first worked in a few development sector organisations that were doing some of the most remarkable work in policy innovations and later joined the AAP government to try and bring the change from inside.
This story is from the January 25, 2025 edition of BW Businessworld.
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