Chintan Maru

Chintan Maru is CEO of GDI Americas and serves as Board Chair of GDI South Asia.

In addition, Chintan leads a portfolio of initiatives focused on compassion, dignity, and kindness. He is the Founder and Principal of Leapfrog to Value which is expanding financing for compassionate and high-quality health systems. Chintan serves on the founding team and board of the Dignity Restoration Project, a frontrunner in the American race reparations movement. He supported NEPI to expand its evidence-based violence prevention model in West Africa. He co-founded Oxygen Hub, a franchise business expanding oxygen access across Africa.

Prior to GDI, he was a leader in McKinsey & Co’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.