Melinda French Gates to quit Gates Foundation

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Melinda French Gates to quit Gates Foundation

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said she will resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“This is not a decision I came to lightly,” Ms Gates wrote in a statement posted to X on Monday.

Her last day of work will be 7 June.

Ms Gates founded the foundation – the largest private body of its kind – in 2000 with her then-husband Bill Gates, the

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In 2021, after 27 years of marriage, the pair announced their separation, but pledged to carry on with their ****** philanthropic work.

The Gates Foundation is among the most powerful groups in public health. It spends billions of dollars every year on initiatives aimed at eradicating infectious *********, reducing ******** and combatting climate change.

According to the foundation’s website, the couple donated more than $36bn (£28bn) of their own wealth to it from 1994 to 2018.

“I am immensely proud of the foundation that Bill and I built together,” Ms Gates wrote in her statement adding that under an agreement with Mr Gates, she will now have an additional $12.5bn for her own charitable work on women and families.

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