| Rahim Aga Khan | |
| Native Lang1: | Persian |
| Birth Name: | Prince Rahim Aga Khan |
| Birth Date: | 1971 10, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Father: | Aga Khan IV |
| Mother: | Salimah Aga Khan |
| Religion: | Nizari Isma'ili Shia Islam |
Prince Rahim Aga Khan (; 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).
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.[1]
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 University of Navarra IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. In 2010, he established the Aga Khan Brown Workshop series at the Watson Institute.
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[2] 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,[3] 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 oversee programs and other projects of the Aga Khan Development Network.[4] [5]
The titles Prince and Princess are used by the Aga Khans and their children by virtue of their descent from Shah Fath Ali Shah of the Persian Qajar dynasty. The title was officially recognised by the British government in 1938.[6]
Author Farhad Daftary wrote of how the honorific title Aga Khan (from Agha and Khan) was first given to Aga Khan I at the age of thirteen after the murder of his father: "At the same time, the Qajar monarch bestowed on him the honorific title (laqab) of Agha Khan (also transcribed as Aqa Khan), meaning lord and master." Daftary additionally commented, "The title of Agha Khan remained hereditary amongst his successors."[7]
Prince Rahim married Kendra Irene Spears on 31 August 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland.[10] They have two children: Prince Irfan (b. 11 April 2015)[11] and Prince Sinan (b. 2 January 2017).[12] The couple divorced in February 2022.[13] [14]
In 2019, he bought a house in Unstad in Vestvågøy Municipality, Norway.[15] [16]