Bold Names Season 3
WSJ's Bold Names podcast brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being made in the C-suite and beyond.
In the first episode of Season 3, we're joined by Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former head of USAID. Shah has spent his career on the front lines of the fight against global poverty. That gives him unique insight into the rapidly changing world of foreign aid and philanthropy. How are NGOs attempting to fill the funding gaps left as the Trump administration turns inward?
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