Dr. Rajiv J. Shah is the President of The Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution with a mission to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. For more than two decades, Raj has worked to find fresh innovations, forge partnerships, and fiercely track data to make the big bets needed for a better, brighter 21st century. Trained as a physician and health economist, Raj is widely recognized as a global leader who builds strong institutions, leads extraordinarily talented teams, and delivers lasting results. In October 2023, Raj released his book, “Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens.” In the book, he shares a dynamic new model for realizing transformative change, inspired by his own work and that of The Rockefeller Foundation on some of the biggest humanitarian efforts of the 21st century.