Khaliya Aga Khan

Khaliya Aga Khan is a philanthropist, venture capitalist, public health specialist and active advocate for social change. Both her professional and philanthropic work focus on the intersection of design, technology and social entrepreneurship.
She sits on the Entrepreneur Board of Venture for America, the advisory board of Nexus Youth Summit and is a donor to the TED conference. An avid art collector, she is on the Young Acquisitions Council for the Guggenheim, the Whitney Contemporaries and the Metropolitan Museum's Apollo Circle. Khaliya was featured in Bill Gates’s blog in 2012.
She received her master's degree in Public Health from Columbia University, her bachelor's degree in European Studies and International Affairs from New York University, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bulgaria from 1999 to 2001. She also studied Computer Science at New York University and Film at the New York Film Academy.
From 2006 to 2013, Khaliya was married to Prince Hussain Aga Khan, son of Prince Karim Aga Khan (Aga Khan IV), who is the spiritual leader to approximately 15 million Ismaili Muslims. Khaliya then married Thomas Ermacora and took on the name of Khaliya Ermacora.