Presently, Susan D. Desmond-Hellmann occupies the position of Advisor at GV Management Co. LLC.

She is also on the board of Pfizer Inc., Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, Gates Medical Research Institute and National Resilience, Inc.

In the past she held the position of Senior Advisor at BDT Capital LLC, President-Product Development at Genentech, Inc., Associate Director-Clinical Cancer Research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Chief Executive Officer for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Professor at The University of California, San Francisco and Chancellor at The University of California, San Francisco.

Susan D. Desmond-Hellmann received an undergraduate degree and a doctorate from the University of Nevada and a graduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.