Vivek Ramaswamy is a businessman, entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate who ran for President of the United States in the 2024 general election. He is currently running for the Republican nomination for Ohio governor.
During his presidential campaign, Ramaswamy was viewed as a political outsider and often was celebrated by Republican voters for his combative exchanges with legacy media. Ramaswamy announced his withdrawal from the presidential race in January 2024. He threw his support behind Donald Trump, becoming a key campaign surrogate for the president.
Ramaswamy, along with Elon Musk, was tapped by President Trump to serve as co-leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to 鈥渄ismantle Government Bureaucracy鈥�.
Ramaswamy exited team DOGE in January 2025 and launched a gubernatorial campaign in Ohio in February 2025 during a rally in his hometown. The multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur is hoping to succeed Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who cannot seek re-election in 2026 due to term limits.
Ramaswamy founded Riovant Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company focused on transforming the drug development process, in 2014.
The Ohio native grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ramaswamy graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard University and went on to study law at Yale.
In 2015, Ramaswamy married his wife Apoorva T. Ramaswamy, a throat surgeon and Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The couple share two sons, Karthik and Arjun.
