Rajiv Shah, a former administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, will be the Rockefeller Foundation’s next president, the U.S.-based philanthropic organization announced on Wednesday.
He will replace Judith Rodin, who has held the role since 2005, and begin work on March 1.
At 43, Shah is the youngest — and first Indian-American — to serve as the foundation’s president, the organization noted in an embargoed media release. He oversaw work at USAID from January 2010 to February 2015 and led responses to various humanitarian emergencies, including the Haiti earthquake of 2010 and the spread of Ebola in West Africa.
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