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He later attended [https://law.yale.edu/ Yale Law School] where he graduated in 2013 with a law degree.<ref name="nabor2024" />
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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', B.A. {{BA}} ({{LifeData|birth=1985-08-09|birthplace=Cincinnati, Ohio|birthcountry=[[USA]]|death=|deathplace=|deathcountry=}}). He and [[Elon Musk]] have been appointed by President-elect Donald J. Trump to the newly created [[Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)]].<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead 'Department of Government Efficiency'
|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-lead-department-government/story?id=115796327
|quote=
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==Early life==
<b>Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy</b> was born to Tamil speaking Indian Hindu immigrant parents. His father is a patent attorney for General Electric and his mother is a geriatric psychiatrist.
He has one brother. Male [[circumcision]] is not part of the culture of Hindus or [[India]] generally, so it is very likely that Ramaswamy and his brother avoided circumcision and are [[foreskinned]] men with an [[intact]] [[penis]].
==Education==
Ramaswamy attended a [https://www.stxavier.org/ Catholic high school] near Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was the valedictorian at his graduation in 1983.<ref name="nabor2024">{{REFweb
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He graduated from [https://www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University] <i>summa cum laude</i> with a B.A. in Biology in 2007.<ref name="nabor2024"/> He later attended [https://law.yale.edu/ Yale Law School] where he graduated in 2013 with a law degree.<ref name="nabor2024" />
==Business career==
Ramaswamy started [https://www.roivant.com/ Roivant Sciences] in 2014. Roivant reportedly purchases the rights to new but undeveloped drugs and brings them to market.<ref>{{REFweb
|accessdate=2024-11-30
}}</ref> Ramaswamy reportedly has been very successful and is reputed to have a net work of about $1 billion.
==Political actions==
Ramaswamy generally has taken conservative political positions. He stood for the nomination for the Presidency of the United States by the Republican Party but he did not do well. He suspended his campaign after the Iowa caucus in January 2024 and endorsed Donald J. Trump.<ref>{{REFnews
|accessdate=2024-12-01
}}</ref>
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* {{URLwikipedia|Vivek_Ramaswamy|Vivek Ramaswamy}}
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