Will New Rockefeller Foundation President Break or Reinforce its Mold?
Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, shared his vision for the New York-based foundation’s future, which includes the use of science and technology for inclusive growth and leveraging the foundation’s influence to create new public-private collaborations.
Will American foundations step up to fill the void left by nationalistic governments? Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, hopes so. He outlined his vision at a recent program at the Overseas Development Institute amid “a global mood of institutional distrust,” according to Devex.
Shah was named head of the influential foundation in January, after serving as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). President Donald Trump wants to see USAID merged with the U.S. State Department and essentially gutted. Cutting foreign aid was a key piece of the president’s campaign, although the practice has proven to be more complicated, with Congress defending soft power and allies balking. ...