The Aga Khan V, born Rahim al-Husseini Shah, is the 50th leader of the Nizārī Ismāʿīlī sect and the fifth in the line of Aga Khans. He was appointed by his father, the Aga Khan IV, and assumed the role upon his father’s death in February 2025. Born in 1972 in Geneva, he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then graduated from Brown University in 1995.