Our People

Public Service Program

The Goldman Sachs Public Service Program (PSP) is a global initiative affording Goldman Sachs' top performers a unique opportunity to serve the public and develop leadership skills in an entirely new environment outside of Goldman Sachs. PSP Fellows are selected and given paid leave for one year to serve at organizations aligned with the firm's corporate engagement initiatives.

Goldman Sachs launched the PSP in 2004. To date, twenty PSP Fellows have been named. The program underscores our commitment to leadership and expands the platform for our people to be catalysts for change in their community.


2010 PSP Fellows:

Canem Arkan
Endeavor transforms the economies of emerging markets by identifying and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. Endeavor scours emerging markets for entrepreneurs with high-impact potential, helps them break down a society's barriers to success, offers world-class strategic advice, and opens doors to capital. Canem will develop programs for Endeavor’s highest potential entrepreneurs around the world. Her work will support the organization’s mission to advance the growth of small businesses as a path to equality, wealth creation and long-term economic stability. Specifically, this will include developing a curriculum for entrepreneurs that covers topics such as capital-raising, operations, and general enterprise sophistication.

Deb Hudspeth
ONE is a nonpartisan, grassroots campaign and advocacy organization backed by more than two million people who are committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Deb will lead the global research, design and implementation of ONE's Leadership and Career Development Model for employees and will also be actively involved in the implementation of a Strategic Diversity Plan. This project, which will impact all ONE staff, adds value to the organization because ONE believes that leadership and career development are essential to an organization’s success and long-term sustainability.

Cathy Kim
Malaria No More is a non-profit, non-governmental organization determined to end malaria deaths. Malaria No More makes high-yield investments of time and capital to speed progress, unlock resources, mobilize new assets and spur the world toward reaching this goal. Funding for Malaria has gone up tremendously over the last few years to help endemic countries to rapidly increase uptake of effective prevention tools, such as LLINs (long lasting insecticidal bednets). LLINs provide personal protection from mosquitoes and reduce the number of cases of Malaria and deaths resulting from the disease. Due to the long, drawn out approval process, however, funds cannot be disbursed to net manufacturers so that net production can begin. Cathy will manage the rollout of NetGuarantee, an innovative financing tool that seeks to accelerate the delivery of LLINs to Global Fund grant recipients by 6-12 months.

Leona Meng
Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children's literature, constructing schools, providing education to girls and establishing computer labs. The organization seeks to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education empowers people to improve socioeconomic conditions for their families, communities, countries and future generations. Leona will research alternative funding opportunities from the U.S., Asia and Europe. She will create a strategic development plan for Room to Read’s current and future countries of operation and will research potential supporters of the plan and pitching the plan via a worldwide road show.

Nicolas Tiffou
Save the Children is committed to righting the fundamental wrongs that affect children including poverty, hunger and abuse. Save the Children works to alleviate these issues, by working directly with children, by using its experience and influence to develop long-term solutions and by working to persuade governments and others who are responsible for children to do the right thing by them. Nicolas will work on Save the Children’s largest campaign to date to help achieve Millennium Development Goal 4, a two-thirds reduction in under-five mortality by 2015. Currently nine million children die each year from largely preventable causes. Nicolas will help Save the Children strengthen the campaign and bring new ideas to this life-changing effort.

Youngha Yu
The United States Department of State is the President's primary advisor on the conduct of international relations. The Department recommends and implements U.S. foreign policy and manages human and material resources to engage with over 162 countries and several international organizations. Youngha will be part of the Franklin Fellows Program where Fellows, serving as consultants, provide valuable and pertinent advice, views, opinions, alternatives or recommendations on foreign policy issues facing the nation. The U.S. State Department has plans to make the country's economic agenda a larger part of U.S. diplomacy. Youngha will work within the Office of Economic Policy in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs to assist in improving interagency coordination on key global issues being addressed in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). The project will also provide opportunities to take leadership roles within the interagency framework working alongside many U.S. Governmental Agencies.