Dr. Rajiv Shah: Working with Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and More to Tackle Global Crises | E86
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How did Rajiv Shah become a global leader?
My grandfather actually emptied his retirement account to buy a one-way ticket for my dad to come to America because they had so much faith back then that this was the country where if you worked hard and played by the rules, the sky was the limit for you and more importantly, your children. That's my story. I grew up in a tight-knit immigrant community outside of Detroit, primarily a few years in Philadelphia, outside of Philly. And my dad worked at Ford for 34 years. And so I'm a child of the auto industry. I always thought I'd grow up and get to design cars for a living, and it didn't quite work out that way.
And I think you mentioned that in 1995, you had some summer experience that shaped you a little bit. Will you share that?
Actually, even earlier than that, as a kid, I was told by my family, my community, that I should be an engineer or a doctor. I kind of found both interesting. But over time, I got more and more interested in policy and service. I was, I think, a junior in high school watching on a day off an extraordinary visit when Nelson Mandela came to Detroit. We never got in Detroit visitors like Nelson Mandela. That was for LA and New York and stuff like that, DC. I was just glued to the TV as he went to the Ford auto plant and talked to workers and then closed out his day at my favorite baseball stadium in America, Tiger Stadium, the old Tiger Stadium, to a packed crowd, talked about concepts like love and honor and values and service.
And I was blown away by the moment and by the experience, even though I was just sitting in my living room the whole time. And I decided I wanted to get an opportunity to do service work abroad. So you fast forward a little bit. I went to college. And as my college tenure was ending, I had an opportunity to go do some service work in rural South India in a rainforest area with a tribal community called the Soliga. It was a development and health program created by a gentleman named Dr. Sudarshan, who went on appropriately to win the Right Livelihood Award for his just selfless service. But he was a doctor. He'd gone into the bush and
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did Rajiv Shah become a global leader?
2:17–5:23
2
What inspired Rajiv Shah's career shift from medicine to politics?
5:23–20:34
3
How did Rajiv Shah contribute to the Gates Foundation's vaccination efforts?
20:34–36:38
4
How did Rajiv Shah handle the Haiti earthquake crisis as USAID Administrator?
36:38–43:56
5
What leadership lessons did Rajiv Shah learn from major global crises?
43:56–50:00
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