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5 Indian-Americans chosen as Presidential Leadership Scholars
These scholars will study and practice varying leadership principles and exchange ideas.
(Top Left)Henish Bhansali (Bottom Left) Amol S.Naik (Center) Shashank Sinha, (Top Right) Neeti Sanyal (Bottom Right) Nina Kshetry /
The Presidential Leadership Scholars (PLS) program announced five Indian-Americans as part of their ninth annual class which commenced in January 2024.
Henish Bhansali, Nina Kshetry, Amol S. Naik, Neeti Sanyal, and Shashank Sinha are among the 60 scholars selected for the program that gives the scholars a chance to learn leadership through the lens of the presidential experiences of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Dr Henish Bhansali is the chief medical officer of Medical Home Network. He has played a key role in transforming healthcare for low-income, disenfranchised patients who face barriers to care. He joined MHN last year from Duly Health and Care (formerly DuPage Medical Group), where he was senior vice president and medical director of medicare advantage.
During the six-month program, he will boost his initiative focused on more deeply understanding the needs of care teams and business leaders at FQHCs and designing a care delivery model that aligns incentives and operations with patient outcomes.
Nina Kshetry is the founder and president of Ensaras, a company specializing in advanced analytics and artificial intelligence solutions for optimizing wastewater plant operations. She has over 15 years of wastewater treatment and engineering experience.
Kshetry served as the first water director at Moen, which is the largest residential plumbing fixture manufacturer in North America. She received her S.B. and S.M. degrees in environmental engineering, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a licensed professional engineer.
Currently serving as chief executive officer and founder of Resurgens Strategies, Amol S. Naik has twenty years of experience in government affairs and public policy experience. Throughout his career, he has built government relations functions for rapidly growing companies, advised global firms on public affairs issues, and provided counsel to senior elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels.
He has held senior policy and legal roles at Google, including leading Google’s state and local government affairs in the Southeast. He began his career at Google in the Washington, DC office as the company’s first political lawyer. Naik also served as the City of Atlanta’s chief resilience officer and as a senior advisor to the Mayor.
With more than 15 years of experience in product design, development, and commercialization, Neeti Sanyal is an executive creative director at Artefact, investigating the business factors and market conditions that make innovation possible.
Before Artefact, Sanyal worked at PATH, a global health organization where she developed go-to-market strategies for several medical technologies for communities in China, Brazil, India, and South Africa.
Shashank S. Sinha, serves as director of the cardiac intensive care unit and director of the cardiovascular critical care research program at INOVA Fairfax Hospital. He is also a triple board-certified cardiologist in the advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and cardiac transplantation program.
Dr Sinha received his undergraduate degree, cum laude in Applied Mathematics, from Harvard College and his medical degree with honors from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He was also selected to the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies and received the Pritzker Leadership Award.
Over the course of several months, they will travel to each participating presidential center to learn from key former administration officials, business and civic leaders, and leading academics. They will study and put into practice varying leadership principles and exchange ideas to help maximize their impact in the communities they serve.
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