Gates Foundation
CEF Lead Executives
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PAM MASSEY
Principal Officer, Travel and Sustainability
Pam has been a vital part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation operation division since 1999, highlighted by her development of an intricate global business travel program which she led for 23 years, as well as leading other critical areas of operations including Global Mobility, Procurement, and Global Sustainability. Her current role as Principal Officer, Travel and Sustainability, includes designing and delivering the carbon reduction implementation plan for the Travel Department. Pam lives in Seattle, Washington. A retired master’s elite bike racer, cycling continues to be her passion outside of work. Degrees include BS in Business Economics and BS Speech Communication from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, Certified Corporate Travel Executive from Cornell University and Business Travel Professional Certificate from Global Sustainability Tourism Council.
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DEREK BOTHEREAU
Sr. Program Manager and Sustainability Lead
Derek leads strategy, planning, and management for the Gates Foundation’s global sustainability and stewardship efforts within the Global Operations team. He also drives enterprise-level planning and measurement initiatives that help teams across the Foundation work more effectively. His focus is on embedding sustainability into day-to-day operations and improving processes that support execution and alignment. Before joining the Foundation, Derek held sustainability leadership roles at Starbucks on the Global Coffee and Public Affairs teams. Earlier in his career, Derek worked in both sustainability and strategy consulting, including as Director at SustainAbility Inc. (now ERM) and as a consulting team leader at Monitor Group (now Deloitte). He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Climate Reality Leadership Corps-trained sustainability professional. Derek lives in Seattle with his wife and two young daughters and spends most of his free time on bikes, on trails, and drinking way too much coffee while trying to decipher the PNW weather.
Latest Sustainability Reporting
Highlights
- Utility Consumption:
- 25% reduction in utility emissions per year at Seattle campus from 2012 emission volumes (a net reduction of over 950 MTCO2e per year)
- Business Travel: 28% reduction per employee in MTCO2e per year from 2012 emission volumes.
- Commuting: 61% of all commutes to the Seattle campus were taken via alternative commute modes, including walking, biking, carpooling, vanpooling, and public transportation.
- Waste: 90% waste diversion
from landfill rate achieved in 2018 and maintained in 2019.
Recent News
2022
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to invest $1.4 billion to help smallholder farmers address the immediate and long-term impacts of climate change. This will fund immediate action and long-term initiatives over four years to help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia build resilience and food security. The foundation also announced investments in the Africa Adaptation Initiative to build a pipeline of “climate-smart” agriculture projects across 23 countries in Africa, in the development of new digital technologies to help smallholder farmers anticipate and respond to climate threats, and in innovations for improving livestock health and productivity while reducing their climate footprint. (Nov 2022)
2021
The
U.K. and
Canada are
co-leading the new Adaptation Research Alliance, a group of 90 national governments, aid organizations, and universities across 30 economies. The alliance will
fund and coordinate research for effective climate-adaptation solutions,particularly for communities most vulnerable to climate change. The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
a CEF member, is a founding alliance member. (Nov 2021)
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The U.S. and the UAE launched the
Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate
(AIM for Climate),
a joint initiative to mobilize public-private investment and other support for “climate-smart” agriculture and food-systems innovation through 2025. The U.S. plans to mobilize $1 billion of investment by 2025. 31 countries including Brazil and 48 NGO and corporate partners have joined the initiative, including CEF members
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BASF, and
PepsiCo. (Nov 2021)
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2021 Goalkeepers Report (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) —
Illustrates how the pandemic has impacted progress toward the UN SDGs. While
90% of advanced economies are expected to
regain pre-pandemic per capita income levels by 2022, only a third of low- and middle-income economies are expected to do so. (Sept 2021)
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Will give $2.1 billion over the next 5 years to advance women's economic empowerment
($650 million) and leadership ($100 million over 5 years, $230 million over 10 years), and better women and girls' health and family planning ($1.4 billion). (July 2021)
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Bill Gates published a new book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. (February, 2021)
2020
Bill Gates published the article, “COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.” (August 2021)
In the 2020 GatesNotes Annual Letter, Bill and Melinda Gates share their views on the climate crisis, how it impacts the work of the foundation, and their belief that a climate catastrophe can be avoided. (February 2020)