CEOGlobal Development Incubator
Chintan Maru is CEO of GDI Americas and serves as Board Chair of GDI South Asia.
Chintan leads a portfolio of initiatives focused on compassion, dignity, and agency. He is the Founder of Leapfrog to Value which is expanding financing for compassionate healthcare. Chintan is a co-Founder of the Dignity Restoration Project and the Ogletree Reparative Bar, two leading efforts in the US reparations movement. He co-founded Oxygen Hub, a franchise business expanding oxygen access across Africa.
Prior to GDI, he was a leader in McKinsey’s public and social sector practice. He started his career at Tower Street Prison in Jamaica, conducting ethnographic research on HIV. Chintan is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and majored in political science at Duke University. He was a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow at Princeton University and a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica. Chintan plays capoeira angola and dances.