Rodger Voorhies is the Executive Director of the Global Growth & Opportunity Division and a member of the Executive Leadership Team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Rodger Voorhies is president of the foundation’s Global Growth & Opportunity Division. He leads the foundation’s efforts to alleviate hunger and poverty for millions of farming families in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by increasing agricultural productivity in a sustainable way. Prior to his current role, Rodger was Director of the foundation’s Financial Services for the Poor program.