PERSON: Raj Shah


Employer

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Position

Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications
Biography

Raj Shah (born c. 1985) is an American political aide who served as the White House Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the President from 2017 to 2019. Before joining the Trump Administration, Shah was in charge of opposition research at the Republican National Committee. He is currently deputy chief of staff for communications for House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Shah’s parents immigrated to the US from Mumbai. He was born and raised in Connecticut, where his father worked as an engineer and his mother as a dentist.

Shah attended Brien McMahon High School, and was named an Ettinger Scholar in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 2006, he graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in government.

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