Teresa M. Rivero 85Ox 87B 93MPH
Senior Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Washington, D.C.
Teresa Maria Rivero is a Senior Program Officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, managing its investments in education for Atlanta and the State of North Carolina.
She grew up in Miami, Florida and lived in Atlanta before joining the Gates Foundation. She now resides in Arlington, Virginia. In Atlanta, Teresa was the Grant Officer for the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation and affiliated foundations.
Ms. Rivero is a graduate of Emory’s Oxford College and of Goizueta Business School, where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance in 1987. She also earned a Master’s Degree of Public Health at Emory and an MBA from Georgia State University.
She served on the Emory Alumni Board including a term as president. Ms. Rivero has a strong record of public service which includes serving in the Peace Corps in Honduras, Central America, coaching a youth soccer team and participating in the American-German Marshall fellowship.
She was elected as an alumni trustee in 2007 and a term trustee in 2012.
University Trustees
- J. David Allen
- Kathelen Amos
- Facundo L. Bacardi
- Thomas D. Bell Jr.
- Henry L. Bowden Jr.
- Susan A. Cahoon
- G. Lindsey Davis
- Walter M. Deriso Jr.
- James L. Ferman Jr.
- Russell R. French
- James R. Gavin III
- John T. Glover
- Robert C. Goddard III
- Javier C. Goizueta
- Laura J. Hardman
- C. Rob Henrikson
- M. Douglas Ivester
- Ben F. Johnson III
- Muhtar Kent
- Jonathan K. Layne
- Steven H. Lipstein
- William T. McAlilly
- Terri P. McClure
- John F. Morgan
- J. Neal Purcell
- Wendell S. Reilly
- John G. Rice
- Rick M. Rieder
- Teresa M. Rivero
- Adam H. Rogers
- Katherine T. Rohrer
- Gary W. Rollins
- Diane W. Savage
- Jeffrey H. Schwartz
- Leah Ward Sears
- Lynn H. Stahl
- James E. Swanson Sr.
- Mary V. Taylor
- Chilton D. Varner
- William C. Warren IV
- Mike Watson