Devry Boughner Vorwerk
Founder & CEO
DevryBV Sustainable Strategies
Devry is a well-known global C-suite food executive and corporate officer, having served as Chief Communications Officer and Global Head of Corporate Affairs at Cargill and 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. Devry is an international business development and diplomacy strategist as well as an expert in international trade relations and global food security, serving as senior policy advisor at Akin Gump; leader in global and regional corporate affairs roles at Cargill and 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. She served on the Board of The Alliance to End Hunger for seven years. Currently, Devry is a committee member of the U.S.-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. In 2020, Devry was designated a senior fellow at The Conference Board in Marketing & Communications and brought on as special advisor to Global Citizen. In 2021 Devry joined the International Advisory Council of APCO Worldwide. She is chair of the Champion of Free Trade Award at the Economic Club of Minnesota, and in 2024 she joined the Minnesota Sports&Event’s Champion’s Council.
Devry has a bachelor’s degree and Master of Science in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis and Cornell University.