{"671932":{"#nid":"671932","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Conversations with Cabrera: Dr. Rajiv Shah","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Rajiv Shah is president of The Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution with a mission to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. Shah will discuss his new book, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.rockefellerfoundation.org\/big-bets\/book\/\u0022\u003E\u0022Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E (Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 2023), and how universities can embrace a big bets mindset of transformative change, especially as it relates to solving the climate crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first 50 who \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_9RAg5sXDxsXOAqq\u0022\u003ERSVP to attend\u003C\/a\u003E will receive a free copy of the book.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the book:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCharacterized as \u0022a playbook for transformational change,\u0022 Shah narrates stories from his own career, the 110-year history of the Rockefeller Foundation, and leaders as well as unsung heroes around the world to demonstrate it is realistic to be optimistic about our capacity to make large-scale change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Dr. Shah:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDr. Shah serves as president of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.rockefellerfoundation.org\/\u0022\u003EThe Rockefeller Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, a global institution with a mission to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. The Foundation applies data, science, and innovation to improve health for women and children, create nutritious and sustainable food systems, end energy poverty for more than a billion people worldwide, and enable meaningful economic mobility in the United States and around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2009, he was appointed USAID Administrator by President Obama, reshaping the $20 billion agency\u2019s operations in more than 70 countries around the world by elevating the role of innovation, creating high-impact public-private partnerships, and focusing U.S. investments to deliver stronger results. Previously, he served at the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, where he created the International Financing Facility for Immunization which helped reshape the global vaccine industry and save millions of lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, to discuss his new book: \u0022Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"President of the Rockefeller Foundation to discuss his new book: \u0022Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens\u0022"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2024-01-08 15:44:01","changed_gmt":"2024-01-24 19:18:16","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-02-06T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2024-02-06T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-02-06T13:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-02-06 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-02-06 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-02-06 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Room 180, Dalney Building","extras":[],"hg_media":{"672746":{"id":"672746","type":"image","title":"Rajiv Shah","body":null,"created":"1705006695","gmt_created":"2024-01-11 20:58:15","changed":"1705006780","gmt_changed":"2024-01-11 20:59:40","alt":"Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation","file":{"fid":"256042","name":"Rajiv-Shah.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/01\/11\/Rajiv-Shah.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/01\/11\/Rajiv-Shah.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":63847,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/01\/11\/Rajiv-Shah.jpg?itok=KBj-4NIH"}}},"media_ids":["672746"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/president.gatech.edu\/publications-speeches\/conversations","title":"Conversations with Cabrera"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}