By Elie Dolgin

Rajiv Shah was less than a month into his position at the helm of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) when the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti propelled him to the frontline of an international relief effort. To meet the challenge, Shah relied on his previous experience in leadership roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and at the US Department of Agriculture to help launch the largest urban food distribution effort in history and a vaccination campaign that reached more than a million people. With Haiti now in a state of long-term reconstruction, Shah’s focus is shifting toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the eight major areas of international development that the world agreed to address by 2015. Ahead of the MDG Review Summit this month in New York, Elie Dolgin spoke to Shah about how he plans to make progress toward reaching the targets. (Click here to continue reading)

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