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Economics alumnus is new USAID administrator

By sonyamcd
Jan 07, 2010

Dr. Rajiv Shah, '95econ was sworn in as the new administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on January 7. see video

Less than a week later, U.S. President Barack Obama named Shah to be the government's unified disaster coordinator for U.S. rescue and recovery efforts in Haiti following the devastating earthquake there on Jan. 12. see more