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Melinda French Gates

May 2024

  • Melinda Gates

    Melinda French Gates to step down as co-chair of Gates Foundation

    Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates had pledged to continue work together through trial period after filing for divorce in 2021

September 2022

  • Bill Gates gestures as he gives a speech

    ‘The strain is the worst of my lifetime’: how Bill Gates is staying optimistic

    Covid and Ukraine war were major setbacks in pursuit of global development goals, philanthropist admits, but cutting back on aid would be ‘tragic’

May 2022

  • Munich Security Conference, in Munich<br>American businessman Bill Gates gestures during the annual Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany February 18, 2022. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

    ‘I caused pain’: Bill Gates responds to allegations of affair a year after divorce

    Microsoft co-founder reflects on ‘a tough year’ after end of 27-year marriage to Melinda French Gates

March 2022

  • FRANCE-US-DIPLOMACY<br>Co-founder of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates foundation Melinda Gates arrives for a meeting with French President at the Elysee Palace in Paris on July 1, 2021. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Melinda French Gates says she is ‘friendly’ but not friends with Bill Gates

    Billionaire says she gave ‘every single piece of myself’ to 27-year marriage to Microsoft co-founder and says many factors led to divorce

February 2022

  • Paris Peace Forum in Paris, France - 11 Nov 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ISA HARSIN/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock (12600782p) Debate with Melinda French Gates Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the topic: Absorbing the consequences of Covid and mitigating the socio-economic impact of the pandemic Paris Peace Forum in Paris, France - 11 Nov 2021

    Melinda French Gates to no longer give bulk of wealth via Gates Foundation

    Billionaire, who divorced from Bill Gates last year, to seek ‘new partners, ideas and perspectives’ outside philanthropic foundation

July 2021

  • Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates

    Global philanthropists pledge £94m to cover UK foreign aid cuts

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation among organisations picking up some of bill for health projects

June 2021

  • Participants arrive at the Generation Equality Forum, an international event organised by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France in Paris.

    Billions pledged to tackle gender inequality at UN forum

    Generation Equality Forum in Paris announces plans to radically speed up progress on women’s rights

May 2021

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    Marriage doesn’t work (just ask Bill and Melinda) – so let me present some alternatives

    Hadley Freeman
    I find the idea of being legally bound to my partner unacceptably claustrophobic
  • Allen &amp; Co. Media And Technology Conference<br>Billionaire Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corp., right, walks with his wife Melinda Gates during the Allen &amp; Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Thursday, July 10, 2014. Technology companies from Silicon Valley are expected to take center stage at this year's Allen &amp; Co.'s Sun Valley conference as tech and media converge. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Melinda Gates began divorce moves at time Bill’s meetings with Jeffrey Epstein revealed

    Wife of world’s fourth-richest man explored options almost two years ago, roughly at time sex criminal Epstein died in jail

    • Bill and Melinda Gates divorce: why the over-60s are ‘silver splitters’

    • Melinda Gates could become world’s second-richest woman

    • Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce after 27 years of marriage

December 2020

  • MacKenzie Scott

    MacKenzie Scott: ex-wife of Jeff Bezos gives away $4bn in four months

    The 50-year-old, who was married to Amazon boss for 26 years, donates to Covid groups

July 2020

  • Guarani women and children in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

    Ignoring effects of Covid-19 on women could cost $5tn, warns Melinda Gates

    ‘We get recovery if we get equality’ philanthropist argues in new paper urging policymakers to address unpaid labour

March 2020

  • Bill and Melinda Gates.

    Bill and Melinda Gates fund study into finding coronavirus cure

    Thousands of medicinal samples to be tested in Belgium for inhibiting impact on virus

July 2019

  • An employee of a bank checks an identity document via mobile phone as he sells accounts on the street in Khayelitsha, a township outside Cape Town, South Africa

    Melinda Gates pushes G7 to close digital gender gap in Africa

    World leaders to back call to help rural poor and women access mobile banking

May 2019

  • Melinda Gates.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Melinda Gates: ‘I look for potential and then try to figure out how to scale it up’

    The philanthropist and wife of Bill Gates on what she tells her kids, getting women into tech and the perils of wealth

December 2018

  • Kofi Annan steps down after his last speech at the UN as secretary general in 2006.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2018
    Kofi Annan remembered by Melinda Gates

    The philanthropist remembers the Nobel peace prize winner and UN secretary general

February 2018

  • ABC’s “Good Morning America” - 2018<br>GOOD MORNING AMERICA - Bill and Melinda Gates are guests on “Good Morning America,” Tuesday, February 13, 2018, airing on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images) BILL GATES, MELINDA GATES

    Bill and Melinda Gates urge Trump to respect people and to not cut foreign aid

    Gates foundation letter urged the president to treat women and minorities with more respect and warned against cutting aid to the developing world

November 2017

  • Angela Merkel stepping out of a car

    Angela Merkel clings to top spot in Forbes 100 most powerful women list

    German chancellor beats Theresa May, Melinda Gates and Sheryl Sandberg to first place, despite hit to authority in elections
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