President and CEO
Radha Muthiah, President and CEO, oversees the organization’s work to help people across greater Washington thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships. Under her leadership, CAFB serves as the anchor of our region’s charitable food ecosystem, sourcing and supplying the food for 60 million meals annually through 400 partner organizations.
Since joining the food bank in 2018, Muthiah has emphasized a “people-centered, data-informed” approach. This has included initiatives to provide CAFB’s clients with foods tailored to their unique needs; the establishment of an advocacy training program for the people it serves; and the publication of CAFB’s annual Hunger Report. It has also included the formation of groundbreaking partnerships designed to address some of hunger’s root causes. By working with hospitals and colleges to pair food with other critical services like health care and higher education, CAFB is helping to improve population health and build greater economic opportunity and inclusiveness throughout our region. Across all of CAFB’s work, Muthiah deploys a variety of operating and business models, and leverages multiple forms of investment to create sustainable programs and revenue streams that enable lasting impact.
Previously, Muthiah served as CEO of the Clean Cooking Alliance, an initiative hosted by the United Nations Foundation. She has also worked at CARE International, ICF International, the American Red Cross, Mercer Management Consulting, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Muthiah serves on several regional and national boards that focus on food security, economic development, and food as medicine including the Greater Washington Board of Trade, Children’s National Hospital, the Federal City Council, the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of Virginia Food Banks and the advisory council of the Tufts Food is Medicine Institute. She has been recognized by Washington Business Journal as Nonprofit CEO of the Year and a Woman Who Means Business, and by Washingtonian Magazine as Washingtonian of the Year and one of Washington’s Most Powerful Women.
Muthiah holds a BA and an MA in economics from Tufts University and an MBA from Stanford University.