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Raj Shah | |
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13th President of the Rockefeller Foundation | |
Assumed office March 1, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Judith Rodin |
16th Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development | |
In office January 7, 2010 – February 19, 2015 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Alonzo Fulgham (acting) |
Succeeded by | Alfonso E. Lenhardt (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | March 9, 1973
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Shivam Mallick |
Education | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MS, MD) |
Rajiv J. "Raj" Shah (born March 9, 1973) is an American physician, economist and executive. He is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation and a former government official and health economist who served as the sixteenth administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2010 to 2015. Shah is the author of the book Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Occurs, which was released by Simon Element on October 10, 2023.[1]