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Melinda French Gates[2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she graduated from Duke University and started working at Microsoft in 1987. Shortly afterwards, she began dating the company's co-founder and then ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Best Known For: Melinda Gates, the former wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which strives to improve global health and education....
Oct 8, 2024 · Melinda Gates, American businesswoman and philanthropist who—with her then husband, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates—founded the charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It has three divisions: global health, global development, and community and education causes in the U.S. Learn more about her life and career.
The talented young product developer Melinda French rose rapidly through the mostly male ranks of Microsoft in the early 1990’s. In 2000, together with her then husband, Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates, she founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – in 2020 the second largest philanthropic organization in the world.
As co-chair of the world’s largest private charitable foundation, Melinda Gates is one of the most powerful women in philanthropy. Co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she is not only a tech-savvy businesswoman, but she is also an advocate for women’s equality.
Melinda Gates is an American philanthropist, investor and writer who is better known as the ex-wife of Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates.
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After four years without a case, the WHO African region is certified wild polio-free. With this historic milestone, five of the six WHO regions – representing over 90% of the world’s population – are now free of the wild poliovirus, moving the world closer to achieving global polio eradication.
