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Rajat Chabba is the Senior Director of Innovation and Partnerships at WDI. He plays a pivotal role for WDI building strategic partnerships and catalytic collaborations, with a particular focus on enterprise acceleration in emerging markets and strengthening innovation ecosystems. 

Prior to joining WDI, Chabba served as the Technical Director for Market Solutions at Jhpiego, where he spearheaded private sector engagement to drive health impact across Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. He established Jhpiego’s Worldwide Innovation Support Hub, providing targeted support to over 100 social innovators working within complex health systems to foster partnerships, generate local evidence, influence policy, train health workers and engage communities in their journey from idea to impact.

Before Jhpiego, Chabba was the Global Lead for Healthcare Practice & Innovations Lab at Intellecap, a social development consulting firm focused on solving critical health challenges in underserved communities through technology, entrepreneurship and innovation. With a decade of experience across sectors such as women’s health, infectious diseases, primary healthcare, climate health, eye care and sanitation, Chabba has collaborated with corporates, nonprofits, foundations, multilateral agencies and consulting firms to deliver developmental impact in resource constrained environments.

Chabba holds an MBBS from BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad, and a Master’s in Rural Management from IRMA. He is a recipient of the Acumen Fellowship (2015) and the League of Intrapreneurship Fellowship (2021). 

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