Ian V. Rowe is a Deputy Director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on the strategy to achieve large-scale improvements in college completion rates, especially with low-income young adults. He is formerly the Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for MTV, where he oversaw MTV's 'pro-social' multi-media campaigns to engage, educate and empower millions of young people to take action on some of the greatest issues facing their generation, including climate change, voting and civic engagement, sexual health, education, and global disease and poverty. Prior to the Gates Foundation and MTV, he was the White House Director of Strategy and Performance Measurement for USA Freedom Corps, the President's initiative on volunteer service created to encourage every American to make a lifetime commitment of at least two years in service to others. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, an Echoing Green Fellow, a Harvard Social Enterprise Fellow and was also founder and president of Third Millennium Media, a media consulting business. He spent two years with Teach for America, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Cornell University.