Shalni was appointed to the Board in August 2019. Shalni is CEO of Savannah Wisdom, a private family charitable foundation. She is a qualified Accountant trained at Arthur Andersen and an entrepreneur. She is one of the founders of DxS Limited, a personalised medicine business which she spun out from AstraZeneca and then successfully exited.
She works for several charities and not for profit organisations through her own Foundation and is on the Board of the British Asia Trust, Belong-The Cohesion and Integration Network and is a member of the Network for Social Change.
She recently won a Beacon Award for Philanthropy and was awarded the Medal of Honour at Manchester University for her contribution to the City. She has a Masters in Genetics from Cambridge and a Masters in International Development.
Shalni is also a Council Member for the Institute of Fiscal Studies.