Nadir Shams is Associate Director of Strategy at the Skoll Foundation. He supports leadership and teams across the Foundation to detail and iterate on strategy in order to drive lasting impact.
Nadir is a mission-driven development leader with over ten years of international and domestic 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, operations enhancement, and creating 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 San Francisco and loves to exercise, outdoor adventure, listen to good music and podcasts, and support his—typically underdog—sports teams.
