By NewsGram Staff Writer

US President Barack Obama has nominated an Indo-American businesswoman, Shamina Singh, as the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

As per the announcement of White House, Singh's nomination has been sent to the Senate for review.

At present, Singh works as the Executive Director of the Master Card Center for Inclusive Growth. It was in 2013 that she joined as the Global Director for Government Services and Solutions, where she expanded MasterCard's business capabilities to digitize social subsidy programs in over 40 countries, as per the World Economic Forum.

Singh led government and public affairs for Nike and also spent five years with Citigroup's Global Community Development Group before joining the Master Card Center. In addition, she has also spent 15 years in the public sector holding senior positions within the Clinton Presidential Administration and the U.S. House of Representatives.

She was the deputy campaign manager for Ron Kirk's Senate campaign in 2002, and served as a senior advisor to U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi in 2003.

From 1999 to 2001, Singh acted as an executive director for the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Singh has obtained a graduate degree in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School for Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. She has also completed executive programs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Yale's Jackson Institute for Diplomacy and the India School of Business.