Rodger Voorhies is President of the Global Growth & Opportunity Division and a member of the Executive Leadership Team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Rodger oversees the Agricultural Development, Financial Services for the Poor, Global Education, Nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programs within the foundation with approximately $700 million in annual grant payout and program related investments.
In this role, Rodger leads the foundation’s efforts to combine policy change with science, technology and business model innovation 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; Make high quality digital financial services widely accessible to hundreds of millions of people living in the poorest parts of the world; Promote foundational literacy and numeracy skills among children of primary school age in sub-Saharan Africa and India; Bring groundbreaking innovations in sanitation technology and new ways to deliver sanitation products and services to people in the developing world.