Chintan Maru
Managing Director - GDI Americas
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- Graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Majored in political science at Duke University
- Was a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow at Princeton University
- Was a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica
- Started his career at Tower Street Prison in Jamaica, conducting ethnographic research on HIV
- Previously a leader in McKinsey & Co's public and social sector practice
- Plays capoeira angola and dances
- Founder and Principal of Leapfrog to Value, which is expanding financing for compassionate and high quality health systems
- Serves on the founding team and governing board of the Dignity Restoration Project, a frontrunner in the American race reparations movement
- Co-founder of and advisor to Usha Lesizalo, an initiative dedicated to compassionate and high quality care for mothers and newborns
- Supporting NEPI to expand its evidence-based violence prevention model across Sub Saharan Africa
- Was on the founding team of Oxygen Hub, a franchise business expanding oxygen access across Africa
- Founding board chair of GDI-India
- Serves on the boards of Alignd and the Detroit Institute for Law and Organizing
About Global Development Incubator
Global Development Incubator (GDI) is a multi-sector organization dedicated to creating social impact by supporting the development and scaling of various ventures across continents including Africa, the Americas, East Asia, and South Asia.