Devry Boughner Vorwerk

Founder + CEO

Devry Boughner Vorwerk is the Founder and CEO of DevryBV Sustainable Strategies. She was raised in the Salinas Valley of California. Growing up in a small farm town she began to understand at a young age that the world was interconnected, especially when it came to feeding people. She carried her passion for feeding the world with her into university and graduate school where she majored in agricultural and managerial economics at the University of California at Davis, and completed her Master of Science in Agricultural Economics, with a specialization in public policy and international trade at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Devry is a well-known global food executive and corporate officer, having served as Chief Communications Officer and Global Head of Corporate Affairs at Cargill and as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Grubhub. She is also a sustainability entrepreneur, founding DevryBV Sustainable Strategies, her own strategy and advisory company, and serving on the Advisory Boards of Culinary Sciences, Inc. and Agrology.ag.

Devry is an international business development and diplomacy strategist as well as an expert in international trade relations, demonstrated by her success as senior policy advisor at Akin Gump; leader in international and regional corporate affairs roles at Cargill; and in roles at the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Office of the US Trade Representative, and the World Bank Group.

Devry was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014 and was named one of the world’s top 100 global communicators in 2017, 2018 and 2019 by the influential Holmes Report. Currently, Devry is a member of the Advisory Board of Latin America Advisor and committee member of U.S.-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. In 2020, Devry was designated a senior fellow at The Conference Board and brought on as special advisor to Global Citizen. In 2021 Devry joined the International Advisory Council of APCO Worldwide.

Devry has a bachelor’s degree and Master of Science in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis, and Cornell University. Today, she enjoys life in Minnesota, where she lives with her husband and two children. In her spare time, Devry enjoys spending time with family and friends, is an elementary school track coach, and is an active member of her local church.