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    Rajiv J. Shah

    President, The Rockefeller Foundation

    President, The Rockefeller Foundation

    Background

    Rajiv J. Shah is an American physician and the president of The Rockefeller Foundation.

    He served as the sixteenth administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2010 to 2015.

    About The Rockefeller Foundation

    The Rockefeller Foundation: The Rockefeller Foundation is a foundation that reported $380.3 million in charitable disbursements for fiscal 2024 and co-launched Cities Deliver with the OpenAI Foundation on October 14, 2026.

    Key facts

    Current title
    President of the Rockefeller Foundationsource
    Took office
    Assumed office on March 1, 2017, succeeding Dr. Judith Rodinsource
    USAID
    Sixteenth administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2010 to 2015source
    Education
    M.D. from the Perelman School of Medicinesource
    Book
    Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Occurs, released by Simon Element on October 10, 2023source

    WYDE coverage of Rajiv J. Shah

    WYDE Newsroom has published one article about Rajiv J. Shah, on Oct 14, 2026. Rajiv J. Shah is a named leader in 1 story. The most recent is Rockefeller Foundation and OpenAI Foundation Commit $50 Million to Help Cities Use AI for Public Services.

    Reported alongside Rajiv J. Shah

    Sources

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