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Apr 15, 2020 · The US is the biggest single donor to the Geneva-based WHO. It contributed more than $400 million in 2019, roughly 15% of the WHO's annual budget. The second-largest funder is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides 9.8% of the WHO's funds. The WHO launched an appeal in March for $675 million to help fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Mar 8, 2020 · As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world. Bill co-founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with Paul Allen ...
Oct 15, 2019 · In addition, Bill Gates co-chaired a simulation at the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2017, resulting in the creation of the Epidemics Readiness Accelerator, a public-private platform to address effective readiness in issues including travel and tourism, supply chain and logistics, legal and regulatory, communications and data innovations.
Jun 3, 2020 · Visit the Great Reset microsite here. Hear Klaus Schwab on these podcast episodes: the Great Reset launch and his book. We can emerge from this crisis a better world, if we act quickly and jointly, writes Schwab. The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible.
May 6, 2024 · The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, guided by the belief that every life has equal value, is working to help people lead healthy, productive lives. Based in Seattle, it is led by Chief Executive Officer Mark Suzman, under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. The foundation supports work in over 100 countries.
Mar 28, 2023 · Here's what the age of AI means for the world, according to Bill Gates. Mar 28, 2023. This article is published in collaboration with Gatesnotes. AI will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care and communicate with each other. Image: Unsplash/Christopher Burns.
Mar 10, 2017 · Now the richest man in the world with $85.2 billion to his name, Gates spends his days running the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the most powerful charities in the world. The foundation — which controls an endowment of more than $40 billion — aims to lift millions of people out of poverty, with a heavy focus on eliminating HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases.
Mar 19, 2020 · To deal with the next epidemic, Gates has suggested we need the following: Strong health systems in poor countries. Medical reserve corps, with lots of people with training and expertise ready to deploy. Pairing the medical and military experts, so the military can provide logistics and secure areas. Simulations, or “germ games” to see how ...
Jan 16, 2024 · Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, WTO Director-General; Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia; Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands; and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times speak on a panel about the North-South schism on 17 January. Image: World Economic Forum
With a personal fortune estimated at $96 billion, Bill Gates is the world’s second wealthiest person, ahead of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg ($60 billion) but some way behind Jeff Bezos of Amazon ($135 billion). Since founding Microsoft, Gates has become a leading player in a new wave of philanthropy.
