Sylvana Quader Sinha

Sylvana Quader Sinha is a Bangladeshi-American lawyer, entrepreneur, and board leader with more than two decades of experience building and scaling organizations in complex markets. She is the Founder and Chair of the Board of Praava Health, which she led as CEO for nearly 11 years.

Under her leadership, Praava became Bangladesh’s leading integrated consumer health care platform, combining digital health tools with high-quality in-clinic care, diagnostics, and pharmacy services, and has served more than a million patients, the majority of them women. Praava's model has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and Global Innovator and by Fast Company as a World Changing Idea, and has been studied by Harvard and Columbia Business Schools and the Gates Foundation.

Sinha serves on the Strategic Advisory Board of Lebec, the Advisory Board of 1921.vc, and the Leaders' Circle of Women's World Banking, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's UHC2030 Private Sector Constituency. She is a Forbes contributor, has written for the Harvard Business Review, and mentors entrepreneurs at the Harvard Innovation Lab and Columbia Business School.

Earlier in her career, Sinha was a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers and practiced law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Lovells. She held roles with the World Bank, the United States Institute of Peace, the United Nations in Kabul, New York, and Washington, D.C., and served as a foreign policy advisor to then-Senator Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Sinha is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. cum laude in Philosophy and Economics from Wellesley College, and was a visiting scholar at Mansfield College, Oxford.

Sinha is a member of the Board Audit and Risk Committee at PATH.