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    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      Bill Gates loves trash

      A big $28bn bet on a dirty future

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      InterviewBill Gates
      Elon Musk’s Twitter is ‘stirring up’ digital polarisation, says Bill Gates

      ‘Seat-of-the-pants’ management of social media platform worries Microsoft co-founder

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      HTSIHow To Give It 2022
      Melinda French Gates’s $15bn vision

      The philanthropist has already helped distribute more than $65.6bn. Now she wants to pool resources with the world’s wealthiest to make systems change at massive scale. Exclusive interview

    • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
      Interview
      Bill Gates warns Ukraine war is sapping Europe’s foreign aid budgets

      Largest philanthropic fund says world ‘on track to achieve almost none’ of UN development goals

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      Bill Gates
      Bill Gates donates another $20bn to his charitable foundation

      World’s fourth-richest man plans to boost annual distributions by 50% and warns of ‘huge global setbacks’

    • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
      Melinda French Gates
      Helping informal women workers is key to jump-starting recovery

      We have a rare opportunity to understand and fix the economic neglect of these individuals

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Andrew Trister
      How to bridge the digital divide in healthcare

      With the right tools and governance, we can empower the communities that will benefit most from digital innovation

    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans massive giving expansion

      Annual spending jumps to $6.7bn as foundation overhauls governance following co-chairs’ divorce

    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      Bill Gates
      Bill Gates warns of pandemics potentially far worse than Covid

      Philanthropist calls on governments to contribute billions to tackle future pathogens and increase vaccine supplies

    • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
      Drugs research
      UK start-up uses AI to design antiviral pills to prevent pandemics

      Exscientia’s drug development programme secures funding from Gates Foundation

    • Sunday, 18 July, 2021
      Health sector
      Soros and Gates back buyout of UK diagnostic technology group

      Mologic will be turned into a social enterprise for testing tropical diseases

    • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
      The Big Read
      The political awakening of Melinda French Gates

      The philanthropist has shifted from an intensely private figure to a leader comfortable in the spotlight

    • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
      Gates Foundation makes contingency plans for break-up

      Deal unveiled by philanthropic giant would give Melinda French Gates option of going it alone

    • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
      Gates Foundation pledges to donate $2.1bn to women’s causes

      First major initiative announced since philanthropic juggernaut was roiled by marital split

    • Wednesday, 23 June, 2021
      Warren Buffett resigns as trustee of Gates Foundation

      Move comes at tumultuous time for charity after Bill and Melinda Gates announce divorce

    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      Gates foundation considers governance changes following divorce filing

      Billionaire couple’s pending split could alter way the charitable group operates

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Bill Gates
      Bill Gates says investigation into affair ‘in no way related’ to leaving Microsoft board

      Tech company reviewed relationship between co-founder and an employee

    • Sunday, 9 May, 2021
      Philanthropy
      ‘Spousal support not needed’: how billionaire women are reshaping philanthropy

      As Melinda Gates petitions for divorce, charities scramble to respond to gender, generational and strategic shifts

    • Friday, 7 May, 2021
      Jennifer Petriglieri
      The Gates divorce shows the messy reality for couples who work together

      Sustaining both a romantic and professional relationship is hard graft

    • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
      Explainer
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation faces uncertain governance after split

      Memos insist ‘business as usual’ at philanthropic organisation despite founders heading for divorce

    • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
      InterviewCompanies21 min
      Melinda Gates: vaccines, inequality and caregiving

      Gates tells FT editor Roula Khalaf that women have lost $800bn of income in the pandemic

    • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
      Bill Gates
      Bill and Melinda Gates to end marriage after 27 years

      Couple say they will continue to work together at their charitable foundation

    • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
      Coronavirus treatment
      Bill & Melinda Gates: Vaccine fairness will make us all safer | Free to read

      Sharing Covid-19 jabs equitably would result in fewer deaths and faster control everywhere

    • Tuesday, 28 July, 2020
      InterviewCoronavirus economic impact
      What is the impact of the coronavirus pandemic? Global experts answer the big questions

      Bill Gates, UN Women and others share their views about the impact of Covid-19 and how policymakers should respond

    • Wednesday, 15 July, 2020
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Bill and Melinda Gates lobby US Congress for tougher virus action

      Couple break from politically neutral stance to criticise Trump administration’s anti-science views

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