Devry Boughner Vorwerk is chief communications officer and head of Global Corporate Affairs at Cargill, where she is responsible for global branding, communications, corporate responsibility, sustainable development and government affairs. Devry's has focused her career at the intersection of geopolitics, stakeholders and business. She previously led Cargill's global government relations activities in Washington, D.C. and corporate affairs for Latin America; she also served as director of international business relations. Outside of Cargill, she was as a senior policy advisor at Akin Gump, and worked at the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Devry serves on the board of Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., and supports the social gastronomy movement. She has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, to Holmes Report's Influence 100, and is a member of the Arthur Page Society. Devry holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis, and a master's degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University.