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Rajiv Shah

Food Chain Advisory Board Member

Dr. Rajiv Shah is a member of the Paine Schwartz Partners Food Chain Advisory Board.

Dr. Shah brings over twenty years of experience in business, government, and philanthropy as President of The Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution with a mission to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. The Foundation applies data, science, and innovation to improve health for women and children, create nutritious and sustainable food systems, end energy poverty for more than a billion people worldwide, and enable meaningful economic mobility in the United States and around the world.

Raised outside of Detroit, Michigan, Dr. Shah is a graduate of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Wharton School of Business. He previously served as Chief Scientist and Undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics at the United States Department of Agriculture, as well as in a number of leadership roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he helped launch the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (a joint venture by the Gates and Rockefeller foundations) and the International Financing Facility for Immunization (credited with raising more than $5 billion for childhood immunizations worldwide) and where he supported the creation of the Global Development Program. Dr. Shah continued to follow his passion for creating opportunities for communities to thrive in the developing world by founding Latitude Capital, a private equity firm focused on power and infrastructure projects in Africa and Asia. He was also appointed a Distinguished Fellow in Residence at Georgetown University.

Note: Dr. Rajiv Shah is not an employee or agent of Paine Schwartz Partners.