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Jasmeet K. Ahuja is a judicial law clerk on the U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Previously, she spent six years working in Washington, D.C., on U.S. policy towards South Asia. As the senior adviser on South Asia on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, she drafted foreign policy legislation on Pakistan and lobbied for the right of Sikh Americans to wear turbans while serving in the U.S. armed forces. Prior to joining the House, she worked as the director of South Asia in the Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, where she was responsible for overseeing defense trade. Jasmeet began her career as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Pentagon. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Stanford University. She serves on the advisory boards of the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership, The Sikh Coalition, and Project2049.
Sapreet is the Executive Director of the Sikh Coalition, and has been in this role since September 2009. She was a member of the Coalition's Board of Directors for two years prior to joining the organization as staff. Sapreet previously served as the Managing Director of Strategy within the Human Assets team at Teach for America (www.teachforamerica.org), a national non-profit whose mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort. At Teach for America, Sapreet was responsible for facilitating the formulation and evolution of human capital priorities and strategies covering areas such as compensation, staff retention, organizational strength, and employee satisfaction.
David Whitelaw Reid is the Director of Global Talent Initiatives at Asia Society, the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. In this role, he leads the institution's global efforts in Asian leadership development.
Hardeep co-founded Motif Investing to create an intuitive way to invest conceptually. He spent more than six years at Microsoft, where he was General Manager of the company’s enterprise services business, and prior to that was a Director of Corporate Development and Strategy, helping to oversee Microsoft’s investments and acquisitions. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group. Hardeep holds a BS in Economics and Engineering from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He holds Series 7, 63 and 24 licenses in the securities industry, is an active member of FINRA's Small-Firm Advisory Board, serves on FINRA’s Technology Advisory Committee and contributes frequently to Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Fox Business and Forbes.