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  • 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

  • Sunday, 12 July, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    WHO struggles to prove itself in the face of Covid-19

    Donald Trump’s rejection of UN body highlights problems over politics, science and funding

  • Sunday, 26 April, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Gates Foundation to concentrate on coronavirus

    Bill Gates says new commitment means the charity’s other public health work will suffer

  • Wednesday, 15 April, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Gates Foundation opposes Trump’s WHO funding freeze

    Body to donate an additional $150m to fund fight against coronavirus pandemic

  • Tuesday, 14 April, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    GSK and Sanofi team up on Covid-19 vaccine

    Rival drugmakers both hold ‘piece of the puzzle’, says David Loew

  • Thursday, 9 April, 2020
    Bill Gates
    Transcript: Bill Gates speaks to the FT about the global fight against coronavirus

    Microsoft founder says there is a ‘humanitarian and a self-interested’ case for rich countries to help developing world

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