An Interview with Kanwaljit Singh, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Any views expressed in this interview are personal and do not reflect the views of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

A: If I look at my career path, it has always been driven by curiosity. My academic degree is in physical organic chemistry. And I made my first non-obvious career shift in choosing not to work on medicines, but rather to work in technology. I joined Intel, right after I received my PhD, and I really dove deep into physics, mathematics, electronic devices and stuff like that — which had very little to do with my doctoral research!