2016: Tejash Shah
The Economics Department and the Institute for Economic Development presented the 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award to Dr. Tejash Shah.
Tejash Shah completed the BA/MA in Economics at Boston University in 2001 and went on to obtain a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York, in 2005. After practicing medicine as a physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital for two years, Tejash joined McKinsey and Company as a Management Consultant. He spent nearly five years with McKinsey before being appointed Director of Corporate Strategy for Merck, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. In 2014 Tejash moved from New Jersey to the San Francisco Bay Area where he is currently Director of Strategy and Business Development for Samsung, the giant Korean multinational conglomerate.