grant her a vendor's license. The family went to Vienna during the summer of 1983 under the auspices of a cultural tour and pleaded for asylum at the US Embassy, citing political and religious oppression. They gained sponsorship from the Upper Arlington Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio, with particular support from Ohio State Professor of Finance David Cole and his wife Edie and arrived in Columbus in December 1983. Once in the Columbus Hungarian-American network, Sabharwal met OSU fencing coach and Hungarian Charlotte Remenyik. Education Sabharwal enrolled at the Ohio State University in January 1984, excelling in both business administration studies and fencing. He was OSU's 1984 Big Ten Champion and NCAA All-American in 1984 and 1986. In 1988 he won OSU's Jack Stephenson Award for Outstanding Scholastic and Academic Achievement at the College of Business and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree with Distinction in Marketing. He earned his Master of Science degree in management at London Business School in 1996 and a diploma in Company Direction from UK's Institute of Directors in 2009. Return to Post-Communist Hungary In 1992 he returned to post-Communist Hungary to set up the Budapest office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), an international finance institution created specifically to foster the transition of post-Soviet economies backed by the developed world. Soon after its establishment the EBRD became the largest investor in Central and Eastern Europe and Hungary, one of its largest fund recipients. Financial Services Sector Career Sabharwal had a 10-year private equity and mergers and acquisitions career with GE Capital in London and First Data / Western Union, in London and Paris. He served on the board of Euromedic Euromedic, Central Europe's largest private healthcare services organization. Current Sabharwal resides in Washington, D.C. independently advising and co-investing with private equity firms and financial services corporations. He is married and has two children. Civic works He is a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Sport and Environment Sustainability & Legacy Commission chaired by HSH Prince Albert of Monaco II. Sabharwal is Secretary General, of the UNESCO- and IOC-affiliated International Fair Play Committee. He also has served on the board of Peace & Sport USA and the US and International Fencing Federation. He was Chairman of the International Fencing Federation's (FIE) first annual Congress held in the US, in Philadelphia in 2011 and was Chief of Mission to the