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Margot Rogers is currently the chief of staff to the secretary of education. Prior to joining the administration, she worked for more than 15 years for foundations and non-profit organizations on issues of education policy and practice. Most recently, she served as the special assistant to the director of education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In this position she managed and co-led the development of the foundation's five-year education strategy and staff realignment, and served on the education division's investment committee and strategic leadership team.

A member of the District of Columbia Bar, Rogers was an attorney at the Center for Law and Education in Washington, D.C., where she provided strategic guidance and content support for legal services and other attorneys across the country working on issues related to improving the quality of education for low-income students. She has also served as a program officer at the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in Washington, D.C., and as an independent consultant to clients, including New American Schools, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has served on numerous education-related boards and advisory commissions.

Rogers holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she has also been a guest lecturer, a master's degree in American history from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor's degree in history from Emory University. She was a Rotary International Scholar in Graduate History at the University of Toronto and a Harry S. Truman Scholar.

Rogers lives in Arlington, Va., with her husband and two sons.