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    • 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
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      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

    • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
      Global Economy
      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

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

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

    • Saturday, 6 November, 2021
      Marriage and divorce
      The pandemic boosts business for a top New York divorce lawyer

      It’s boom times for Robert Stephan Cohen, who counts Melinda French Gates and John Paulson’s wife among his clients

    • 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
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      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
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      Gates Foundation pledges to donate $2.1bn to women’s causes

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

    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      Gates foundation considers governance changes following divorce filing

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

    • 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
      ExplainerBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      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
      FT CollectionsGlobal Boardroom
      Melinda Gates urges wealthy nations to stop ‘hoarding’ Covid vaccines

      US philanthropist tells FT that countries should inoculate ‘up to a point’ then donate to others

    • 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
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Coronavirus: Biden sets target of 70% of US adults with at least one dose by July 4 — as it happened
    • 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

    • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
      Gillian Tett
      Pandemic aid is exacerbating US inequality

      Businesses owned by black people have struggled to access programmes

    • 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

    • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
      Technology
      Opening access to technology is essential for development

      There are new pathways to prosperity if only countries are allowed to take them

    • Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
      Anne-Marie Slaughter
      A new kind of multilateralism is on the horizon

      Digital space does not recognise the elaborate distinctions of protocol that governments have built

    • Wednesday, 10 October, 2018
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The web should be open to all the world’s citizens

      Improved internet governance is vital to protect existing and future users

    • Friday, 5 October, 2018
      Global Economy
      Tech wave can boost equity and prosperity, says Melinda Gates-led panel

      Properly managed transition could boost job creation and enable more inclusive growth

    • Sunday, 22 April, 2018
      Chinese politics & policy
      China law puts foreign NGOs under tighter control

      Charities win approval but human rights groups struggle to obtain registration

    • Friday, 26 January, 2018
      Health
      FT Health: New benchmarks in superbug struggle

      Ann Aerts, drugmaker deal frenzy, India’s ‘menstrual man’

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