Sonal Shah, an Indian-American working with Google has been inducted in the President-elect Barack Obama's Transition Team. She will be crafting the incoming administration's high tech policy priorities. The members of the Transition Team that include noted personalities from the world of social, political and business will be taking charge of the various Policy Working Groups.

Sonal Shah heads Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org's global development efforts, and has a lengthy resume on international development issues including being a vice president at Goldman, Sachs and Co. prior to joining Google. She is also the co-founder of Indicorps, a US-based non-profit organisation offering one-year fellowships to Indian-Americans to work on development projects in India.
Sonal worked at the Department of Treasury from 1995-2002 on various economic issues and is on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.

According to the President-elect's transition website, the policy working group on Technology, Innovation and Government Reform will develop proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration. The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the areas including Economy, Education, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Immigration, National Security, and Technology, Innovation and Government Reform.

Obama has also named two telecom industry and policy veterans to craft the new administration's high-tech policy priorities.