President and CEO
Radha Muthiah, President and CEO serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Capital Area Food Bank. As CEO, she leads a team that works to distribute over 45 million meals worth of good, healthy food, directly and through a network of 400+ partners, to more than 400,000 people in the greater Washington region each year – a number that could rise by up to 60% in the coming year. Under her leadership, the CAFB is responding to the increase in the region’s food insecurity as a result of the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also focused on the growth of the food bank’s long-standing partnerships; the creation of innovative new partnerships; and its groundbreaking work to ensure that food both addresses hunger today and can be used to enable better health, education, and a pathway towards more inclusive economic growth in the region.
Prior to her role at the food bank, Muthiah has led and grown both start-up and established organizations spanning multiple sectors in the US and internationally. Most recently, Muthiah served as CEO of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private partnership hosted by the United Nations Foundation to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. Under Muthiah’s leadership, clean cooking rose steadily on the global development agenda and is now included in multiple Sustainable Development Goals and in dozens of countries’ climate action plans.
Prior to joining the Alliance, Muthiah served as the Vice President for Strategic Partnerships and Alliances at CARE International, USA. A key aspect of her work was to cultivate and scale innovate partnership models to eradicate poverty through the empowerment of women and girls.
Muthiah has also worked at ICF International, the American Red Cross, Mercer Management Consulting, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves as a member of the Greater Washington Board of Trade and Public Health Institute Board of Directors, and is a Trustee of the Federal City Council. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in economics from Tufts University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University.