The Womens Conference
The Nations Premier Forum For Women
Premal Shah
How He Empowers Others
Premal Shah is President of Kiva.org, a website that lets you make $25 micro-loans to low-income entrepreneurs around the world. Kiva raises $1 million every 10 days for the working poor and was named as a Top 50 website by TIME magazine in 2008. Prior to Kiva, Premal spent 6 years at PayPal, an eBay company where he began to develop his thinking on how the internet could expand microfinance. Premal started his career as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman in New York. He was an invited speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative and was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos. His most surreal experience was carrying the Olympic Torch for the 2008 Summer Games. Premal graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University.