President Obama tapped Pamela Anderson, of the Gates Foundation, and Gebisa Ejeta, the 2009 winner of the World Food Prize, to serve on the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development. The board advises the Agency for International Development “on agriculture and higher education issues pertinent to food insecurity in developing nations,” says the USAID website. Anderson, a new appointee to the USAID board, is director of agricultural development at the Gates Foundation and spent two decades in agricultural research. Ejeta, executive director of the Purdue Center for Global Food Security, has served on the board since 2011.