Roy Steiner
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Roy Steiner is Senior Vice President for the Food Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation, where he leads a team focused on creating access to nourishing food for millions of people in the U.S. and around the world, supporting scientific advances in human nutrition and sustainable food production, and carrying forward the Foundation’s enduring commitment to a sustainable Green Revolution in Africa. He has prior experience at the Omidyar Network, where he served as Director of their Intellectual Capital team. He dedicated nearly a decade of his career to leadership positions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was a founding member of the Agricultural Development initiative and was instrumental in working with The Rockefeller Foundation to develop the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the creation of Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency. Before the Gates Foundation, Roy spent eight years in Africa as an internet entrepreneur founding 3 companies. Early in his career he was a founding member of CH2MHill’s Strategies Group and consulted for McKinsey & Company.