Simon Winter

Simon is Vice President, Reimagining Humanitarian Nutrition Security, Rockefeller Foundation. Simon started with Rockefeller Foundation in August 2025 to lead a new initiative that looks to develop next generation integrated models to deliver resilient food and nutrition security in fragile regions. At the end of 2024, he founded Sustainable Agriculture Foundations’ International Association, to support the legacy Asia and African country organisations spun out of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). He was SFSA Executive Director from 2017 to 2024, during which time SFSA saw a 5-fold increase in pre-commercial smallholder farmers supported. He joined from TechnoServe, where he had been SVP, Development in Washington, D.C, and previously led operations in sub-Saharan Africa. From 2015-2017, Simon was a Senior Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is on a range of boards including chair of the Dalberg Trust, the Scaling Community of Practice, and member of the Griffith Foods Sustainability Advisory Council. His earlier career included positions at McKinsey & Company, a Ministry in
Botswana, and Barclays Bank. A UK and German citizen, Simon holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, London.

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