Nadir Shams is Managing Director, Strategy and Learning at the Skoll Foundation. He supports leadership and teams across the Foundation on analyzing learnings, evidence-based decision making, prototyping new ways and areas for working, and catalyzing philanthropy towards transformational social change.
Nadir is a mission-driven development leader with over fifteen years of international and US experience. As a strategy consultant with Spring Impact in San Francisco and Dalberg Advisors in Nairobi, Nadir's passion is to help leaders achieve greater reach and depth of impact through strategy design, operational effectiveness, and partnerships. From his time as a development practitioner with Innovations for Poverty Action, One Acre Fund, The Carter Center, and others, Nadir is driven to help communities identify and achieve their own vision of wellbeing.
He is a proud graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (M.A.). While raised up and down the US east coast, Nadir now lives with his wife in Oakland and loves to exercise, outdoor adventure, listen to good music and podcasts, and support his—typically underdog—sports teams.
