Prince Rahim Aga Khan (; born 12 October 1971) is the second of the

Aga Khan IV Shāh Karim al-Husayni (born 13 December 1936), known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Ismaili followers and elsewhere as Aga Khan IV, is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailis, a denomination within Shia Islam. He ha ...

’s four children. Based in

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, Switzerland, he has been actively involved for many years in the governance of the

Aga Khan Development Network The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a network of private, non-denominational (de jure) development agencies founded by the Aga Khan that work primarily in the poorest parts of Asia and Africa. Aga Khan IV succeeded to the office of the 49t ...

(AKDN).

Early life and education

Prince Rahim Aga Khan was born on 12 October 1971, in Geneva, the eldest son of Prince Karim Aga Khan and his first wife

Princess Salimah Aga Khan Princess Salimah Aga Khan (''née'' Sarah Frances Croker Poole; born 28 January 1940), also known as Begum Salimah Aga Khan, is a former fashion model and an ex-wife of the 49th Ismaili Shia Imam, the IV Aga Khan Prince Karim Aga Khan. Early l ...

. Prince Rahim received his secondary education at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (1990) and graduated from Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S. with a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature awarded in 1995. In 2006, he completed an executive development program in management and administration at the

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in Barcelona, Spain. In 2010, he established the Aga Khan Brown Workshop series at the

Watson Institute The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs is an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Its mission is to promote a just and peaceful world through research, teaching, and public engagement ...

Career

Prince Rahim has been actively involved in the governance of the

(AKDN), where he currently chairs the AKDN Environment and Climate Committee and co-chairs AKDN's Budget Review Committees. Prince Rahim sits on either the Board or Executive Committee for several of the AKDN's agencies and affiliated structures, namely the

Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development SA is a Swiss for-profit entity and international development finance institution which invests in countries of East Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, and South Asia. It is based in Geneva, Switzerland. I ...

, the Aga Khan University Foundation, the

Aga Khan Foundation The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is a private, not-for-profit international development agency, which was founded in 1967 by Shah Karim Al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, the 49th Hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. AKF seeks to provide long-term ...

, the Aga Khan Development Network Foundation, the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance and the

Aga Khan Trust for Culture The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a family of institutions created by Aga Khan IV with distinct but complementary mandates to improve the welfare and prospects of people in the developin ...

. Prince Rahim travels regularly to oversee programs and other projects of the Aga Khan Development Network.

Personal life

Prince Rahim married Kendra Irene Spears on 31 August 2013 in

, Switzerland. They have two children: Prince Irfan (b. 11 April 2015) and Prince Sinan (b. 2 January 2017). The couple divorced in February 2022. In 2019, he bought a house in Unstad,

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, Norway.

References

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