Oliver Rothschild

Oliver Rothschild, MD, serves as a Senior Advisor to the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. As a former Managing Director, Oliver played a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with organizational leadership as an operating partner and board member as they grow, build capacity and achieve maximum impact. Oliver currently serves on the board of DRK grantees Digital Public Works, Paralign Health, and Student Basic Needs Coalition. He previously served on the boards of Be Girl, Dollar For, For The People, Fundi Bots, Housing Connector, Project on Predatory Student Lending, Samaritan, and Trust Neighborhoods.

Trained as a medical doctor, Oliver has served as a leader, entrepreneur, and strategist in healthcare and education. Oliver came to DRK from Gates Ventures, the private office of Mr. Bill Gates, where he served as Director of Health and Life Sciences. In this role, he built a new team to shape strategy and investments for Mr. Gates and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and advise donors and governments on health policy.

Before Gates Ventures, he held a range of leadership roles in the health sector, including Deputy Director of Partners in Health-Rwanda under Dr. Paul Farmer and leading analytics for the launch of Rwanda’s first national pediatric HIV program with the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Domestically, he served pharmaceutical and hospital clients as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and led health reform initiatives as Chief of Staff for the State of Massachusetts’s $13 billion Medicaid program.

In education, he co-founded several innovative organizations across Africa, including Kepler University, Spire Education (acquired in 2017), and Nova Pioneer K-12 Schools, collectively serving thousands of students. He also served as an advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, helping to shape their first global education strategy.

Oliver earned his B.A. in computer science from the University of Chicago and his MD from the Yale School of Medicine.