Sam Dryden, an investor and entrepreneur, was named Friday to be the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new director of agricultural development.
Dryden, a managing director of New York-based Wolfensohn & Company, an investment firm, will begin the new post on Feb. 1. He replaces Dr. Rajiv Shah, who was sworn in Thursday as the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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