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Bill Gates is a Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chairman and Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.
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Development
Bill and Melinda Gates: by ending poverty we can overcome other big challenges
Bill and Melinda Gates set out the three main areas their foundation will focus on this year.
Innovation
Bill Gates: ‘We are reducing inequity faster than ever’
From innovation to vaccinations, Bill and Melinda Gates, Founders of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, address some of the most crucial issues affecting the developing world du...
Agriculture, Food and Beverage
How can we help farmers adapt to climate change?
A few years ago, Melinda and I visited with a group of rice farmers in Bihar, India, one of the most flood-prone regions of the country. All of them were extremely poor and depended on th...
Global Health and Healthcare
How to fight the next epidemic
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has killed more than 10,000 people. If anything good can come from this continuing tragedy, it is that Ebola can awaken the world to a sobering fact: We ...
Infrastructure
Four big breakthroughs we expect by 2030
Fifteen years ago, the two of us made a bet. We started our foundation in 2000 with the idea that by backing innovative work in health and education, we could help billions of people impr...
Environment and Natural Resource Security
The machine turning human waste into drinking water
I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt and drop into a large bin. They made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated. A few minutes later I took a long tast...
Development
Good news you may have missed in 2014
I ended 2013 by compiling something slightly unusual: a list of some of the good news you might have missed. I thought it was a pretty good note to end the year on, and people seemed to l...
Economy
Why vaccines are such a good investment
Melinda and I are big fans of giving back, which means we’re big fans of #GivingTuesday. Whether you’re an individual or a big company, it’s a great way to get involved. There are lots of...
Global Health and Healthcare
How can philanthropy transform medicine?
This month, Melinda and I joined hundreds of scientists for a meeting in Seattle. The topic we discussed is something we’re all passionate about: how to harness the advances of science in...
Global
Why inequality matters – and how to tackle it
A 700-page treatise on economics translated from French is not exactly a light summer read—even for someone with an admittedly high geek quotient. But this past July, I felt compelled to ...
Africa
On development, Sachs was wrong. And right.
Bono calls the economist Jeffrey Sachs “the squeaky wheel that roars.” To me, Sachs is the Bono of economics – a guy with impressive intelligence, passion and powers of persuasion who is ...
Growth
Bill Gates Q&A: Fighting corruption, the future of aid
During Davos 2014, we asked you for your questions for Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Here are his responses. 1. Shamil Sharshek from Facebook asks: ...
Global Health and Healthcare
The emerging world’s hidden vaccine heroes
Vaccines work wonders. They prevent disease from striking, which is better than treating it after the fact. They are also relatively cheap and easy to deliver. Yet millions of children do...
Digital
The optimist’s timeline
Bill Gates is Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and regularly attends the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos. SEATTLE – Usually, “optimism” and “realism”...