Board Member of National Resilience, Inc. and Stand Up To Cancer. Senior Advisor at GMRI from 2020 until 2021. Served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a private foundation committed to enhancing global healthcare, reducing extreme poverty and expanding educational opportunities, from 2014 until her retirement in 2020. Prior to joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she served as the first female, and ninth overall, Chancellor of UCSF from 2009 to 2014. Dr. Desmond-Hellmann remains an Adjunct Professor at UCSF. Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. From 1995 through 2009, Dr. Desmond-Hellmann was employed at Genentech where she served as President of Product Development from 2005 to 2009, overseeing pre-clinical and clinical development, business development and product portfolio management. Prior to joining Genentech, she was Associate Director, Clinical Cancer Research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Director of Facebook Inc. from 2013 to 2019. Director of Procter & Gamble from 2010 to 2017.