Akshay Shah ’14SEAS has been named one of the inaugural Schwarzman Scholars — a program at Beijing’s Tsinghua University that is already being equated with the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. Funded by Blackstone Group chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman and boasting an advisory board that includes Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger, and Yo-Yo Ma, the program describes its goal as preparing the next generation of global leaders.
Shah was one of three thousand applicants from 135 countries vying for the 111 spots. At Columbia, Shah was an electrical-engineering major, 2014 class president, a Columbia University senator, and one of ten undergraduate students nationwide to win an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society scholarship. Since graduation, he has been working as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company.
