Shireen Santosham

GSMA

Shireen Santosham joined the GSMA in 2013 and is the GSMA Connected Women Senior Programme Manager (Global). The GSMA Connected Women programme aims to close the digital divide between men and women in access to mobile phones and the internet by working with over 800 mobile network operators around the world.

Prior to joining the programme, she was a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company where advised multilateral international development institutions, governments, and corporations on strategy, operations, and organisational design. While there, she also helped found the McKinsey Center for Government. Previously, she worked in impact investing while at Vulcan Capital and served as a technical consultant to a variety of organisations including the Government of Liberia where she advised on rural development policy, Save the Children in Bolivia where she worked on health impact evaluations, and with the conservation organisation Oceana where she managed a multi-country market entry feasibility study.

Shireen holds a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an M.P.A in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School.