Dr. Neil Buddy Shah is currently the CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Buddy is the former CEO and co-founder of IDinsight, where he provided significant expertise in evaluation, policy, and management. Trained as a physician and development economist, Dr. Neil Buddy Shah is an award-winning social entrepreneur, CEO and global health funder who is passionate about maximizing the impact of global health efforts. Dr. Shah previously served as Managing Director of GiveWell, a research and funding organization that directs hundreds of millions of dollars annually to global health and development programs. GiveWell seeks to identify and fund the most cost-effective ways to save lives and has recently become one of the world’s largest private funders of global health. Dr. Shah was also co-founder, CEO and now serves as Chairman of the Board of IDinsight, a global data analytics and development consulting firm with offices in Africa, Asia and the United States. At IDinsight, he helped pioneer the practical application of cutting-edge data and impact measurement tools such as randomized controlled trials, machine learning and results-based financing mechanisms to improve the impact of life-saving and poverty-fighting programs in Africa and Asia. Buddy previously worked at the World Bank and MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Buddy holds a BA in Economics from Harvard, an MD with special distinction in Global Health Policy from Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and an MPA in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School. Dr. Shah serves on the boards of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Constituency of Private Foundations); the Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School; Educate Girls; Giving Green; and IDinsight. He is also the Chair of the Trust at Anthropic. He is a term fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, has been a visiting professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is a former Echoing Green Fellow and Forbes’ 30 under 30 social entrepreneur. He has lived and worked in India, Cambodia, Uganda, and the United States.