Rahim Aga Khan

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Prince Rahim Aga Khan
رحیم آغا خان
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Prince Rahim Aga Khan in attendance for Tajikistan's 30th Anniversary of Independence
BornPrince Rahim Aga Khan
(1971-10-12) 12 October 1971 (age 50)
Geneva, Switzerland
Spouse
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(m. 2013)​
Issue
  • Prince Irfan Aga Khan
  • Prince Sinan Aga Khan
FatherAga Khan IV
MotherBegum Salimah Aga Khan
Religion Nizari Isma'ili Shia Islam

Prince Rahim Aga Khan (رحیم آغا خان; born 12 October 1971) is the second of the Aga Khan IV’s four children. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he has been actively involved for many years in the governance of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).

Early life and education[]

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

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 1996. In 2006, he completed an executive development program in management and administration at the University of Navarra IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.

Career[]

Prince Rahim has been actively involved in the governance of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), where he currently chairs the AKDN Environment and Climate Committee (ECC) 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, the Aga Khan University Foundation, the Aga Khan Foundation, the Aga Khan Development Network Foundation, the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

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

Private life[]

On 26 April 2013, Aga Khan IV announced the engagement of Prince Rahim Aga Khan to Kendra Spears (Princess Salwa Aga Khan).[1] The couple married on 31 August 2013 in a private ceremony held at Bellerive Castle on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. The bride took the name Princess Salwa.[2]

He and Princess Salwa announced the birth of their first child, a boy named Prince Irfan, in April 2015.[3] Their second son Prince Sinan was born on 2 January 2017 in London, United Kingdom.[4]

In 2019 he bought a house in Unstad, in Vestvågøy, in Lofoten, in Norway.[5][6]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Aga Khan Announces the Engagement of His Eldest Son". AKDN. 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
  2. ^ "The wedding of Prince Rahim and Miss Kendra Salwa Spears". TheIsmaili.org. 2013-08-31. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
  3. ^ "The Ismaili". 2015-04-14. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  4. ^ "First photographs of Prince Sinan". 2 March 2017.
  5. ^ Johansen, Bente H. (2020-07-12). "Prins Rahim Aga Khan kjøpte hus i Lofoten – nå skal det renoveres". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  6. ^ "Prins får grønt lys for å renovere "surfebolig" i Lofoten". e24.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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