Rajiv Shah

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Comedy, Music

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Rajiv Shahis the President of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a former American government official, physician and health economist who served as the 16th Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 2010–2015 under President Obama. He also held many leadership positions at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Raj chats with the Armchair Expert about the economics of the healthcare system, leading the U.S response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and theRockefeller Foundation's commitment to expand Covid-19 testing. Dax asks what he learned from Bill and Melinda Gates andRaj talks about having to address the crisis in Haiti only 6 days into the job. Theytwo talk about America's interest in expandingAmerican values around the globe, vaccinations and the importance of agriculture in humanitarian efforts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to arm chair expert. I'm joined by Maximus Mouse.
0:04.8	Hello there. How are you?
0:06.4	Great, how are you doing?
0:07.6	Wonderful. We're back in the attic.
0:09.5	We're back home.
0:10.5	I'm sitting in the chair.
0:11.5	Feels good. Today we have a very, very, very smart.
0:15.1	One of these people where Monica and I were talking to
0:17.4	and just getting more and more depressed,
0:19.1	the more we learned about their life and accomplishments.
0:22.1	God, he's done so much.
0:24.0	Too much.
0:25.0	Too much smarter than, he's smart.
0:26.0	He's too much smarter than us too.
0:28.0	Raj Shaw.
0:30.0	Raj Shaw is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a former American
0:34.3	government official, physician, and health economists who served as the 16th
0:38.5	administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 2010 to 2015.
0:44.7	Under Obama.
0:45.7	Aye, aye, what an accomplished guy.
0:48.2	And from Michigan.
0:49.4	Yeah, you love that.
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