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Bill Gates Foundation Appoints Ag Development Director
USAgNet - 01/12/2010
Sam Dryden, a managing director of Wolfensohn & Company, will join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Development Program as director of Agricultural Development on February 1, 2010. An
investor and entrepreneur in life sciences ventures, Dryden has written and lectured widely on food security and economic development issues and served as an advisor on rural development for the World
Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Dryden will lead a foundation team dedicated to helping millions of the world's poorest farming families boost their productivity and increase their incomes through investments in better seeds, farm
management training, access to markets, and effective policies.
To date, the foundation has committed $1.4 billion to agricultural development efforts in Africa and South Asia.
At Wolfensohn & Company, a corporate advisory and investment firm founded by former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, Dryden focused on investments in biofuels and other alternative energies.
Until 2006, he led Emergent Genetics, Inc., which develops and markets seeds.
Previously, Dryden served as president and CEO of Agrigenetics Corporation, a seed company, and founded Big Stone Inc., a private venture and development company. He began his career as an analyst
with the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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