Rajiv Shah has worked tirelessly to improve the world. He is the President of The Rockefeller Foundation and has an impressive history of leadership and innovation in global development.
Department of Agriculture. Rajiv joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss his leadership career, how audacious thinking can improve humanity, and much more.
Welcome to the show. Raj Shah has worked tirelessly to improve the world. He is the President of the Rockefeller Foundation and has an impressive history of leadership and innovation in global development.
I always find it helpful to start a little bit at the beginning to understand how childhood particularly influences a lot of what we do in our lives. You grew up in Detroit and as the child of immigrants. I know you had a pretty diverse educational and cultural background.
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Do you think a lot of your humanitarian work has roots in the experience from when you were younger? I think so, but I grew up in an Indian-American family. They had this faith in education, hard work, and the American dream. That was a time when all those things seemed to align effectively. I had a great childhood. Growing up in Suburban Detroit, you take things like pre-engineering drafting classes in middle school. My dad was in the auto industry at Ford Motor Company for several years.
