Can a Penn Alum Change the World? With Dr. Rajiv Shah

End poverty. Wipe diseases like Ebola and malaria off the map. Assure equitable and sustainable access to food, employment, and healthcare for all of humanity. Penn alum and President of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Rajiv Shah, has dedicated his career to pursuing global goals like these. Building on private and public sector experience, Shah is in a unique position to put his innovative and interdisciplinary strategy – one that embraces the risks that come with achieving transformational change – to work. He has impacted the lives of millions of people around the world, for instance, by elevating the role of development in our nation’s foreign policy under the Obama administration and underwriting global immunization efforts with the Gates Foundation. Now he leads one of the world’s biggest charitable organizations, tasked with creating universal opportunities for global sustainable development.

What does it take to be a change-maker on a global scale? What do you have to put on the line to make a real difference? What happens if you fail? And what do you learn about yourself and the world around you along the way? Rajiv Shah addresses these questions and discusses his new book, Big Bets, with Katherina Rosqueta, founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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