Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Leadership & Staff

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Christopher Edley Jr Berkeley law professor and Obama transition board member

• US program advisory panel member

Edna Denise Garrett

• Associate General Counsel

Katey Einterz Owen Director for Neglected Tropical Diseases at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Director for Neglected Tropical Diseases ('13→?)

Sue Y Taylor Chief Information Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• CIO ('16→?)

Toni Hoover Director at Gates Foundation

• Director

Sue Desmond-Hellman former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and previously served as Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

• CEO

John Irving Bell Director, Genentech

• Chair, Global Health Program Advisory Committee

Denise Barndt

• Director of Security ('07→?)

S Joshua Lewis Founder and Managing Partner, Salmon River Capital

• adviser to Next Generation Learning Challenges

Stacey Childress CEO, New Schools Venture Fund

• Deputy Director of Education

Board Members

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Warren Buffett CEO at Berkshire Hathaway, Investor

• Trustee

Jeffrey S Raikes CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

• CEO

Thomas J Tierney founder of the Bridgespan Group

• Board member ('22→?)

Minouche Shafik Columbia University president, former director London School of Economics

• Board member

Strive Masiyiwa Zimbabwe’s first billionaire

• Board member ('22→?)

Neil Ferguson Epidemiologist, Imperial College, London

• Acting Director, Vaccine Impact Modeling Consortium ('16→?)*

Mark Suzman CEO, Gates Foundation

• CEO (Feb '20→?)*

Melinda French Gates Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Co-chair and Trustee

William H Gates Sr Father of Bill Gates and formerly partner at Preston Gates

• Co-chair

Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft

• Co-chair and Trustee

Donors

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust

• Grant · 3,626,100,000 USD ('09) [+1]

• Grant · 3,307,259,000 USD ('08)

New Leaders national nonprofit that develops transformational school leaders and designs effective leadership policies and practices

• Grant · 11,298,395 USD ('07→'09)*

AgBiome North Carolina Biotech Company

• Grant For Microbiome · 5,390,737 USD (Jul '19)

GAVI Mastercard Child Immunization Digital Record Partnership December 2018

• Donation · 3,800,000 USD (Dec '18)

Quest Atlantis Immersive Reality Educational Game For Children Developed at Arizona State University

• Funder ('12)

FUSE RI Blended Learning Fellowships for Rhode Island Teachers

• Primary Funder ('14)

PIPRA PIPRA is a non-profit organization dedicated to maximizing the impact of technologies in the agricultural, biotechnology, health, water, and clean energy

• Funding Partner

Global Burden of Disease Project (GBD) World Bank Initiated Project To Measure Cost of Disability and Death

• Primary Funder ('10)

The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility Venture Philanthropist Funded Report, Harvard / NBER 2018

• Funder

Donations

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Diconsa Grocery Store Chain Mexico

• Grant · 3,500,000,000 USD ('08)

GAVI Global Vaccine Alliance

• Donation · 1,543,000,000 USD ('16) [+1]

• Founding Donor · 750,000,000 USD ('99)

Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) International Group Focused on Food Security

• Grant · 310,000,000 USD ('19)

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Gates Funded Institute for Global Health Data

• Donor · 279,000,000 USD [+1]

• Grant · 105,000,000 USD ('07)

New Schools Venture Fund Venture Capitalist Ed Reform

• Grant · 100,193,165 USD ('03→'19)*

UNICEF USA Divison Promoting US Youth to Fundraise for Global Peers

• Grant · 100,000,000 USD ('16)

National Institutes of Health primary U.S. government agency responsible for biomedical and public health research

• Grant · 100,000,000 USD ('19)

Shared Learning Collaborative LLC A partnership of states, districts, educators, foundations, and content and tool providers collaborating to create technology for education. Read more at http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/02/07/shar

• Grant · 76,500,000 USD ('11)

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator Gates Foundation Effort To Develop Anti-Viral Treatment

• Lead Funder · 50,000,000 USD (Mar '20)

OneWorld Health (iOWH) Non profit pharmaceutical company

• Donation · 42,600,000 USD (?→'04) [+1]

• Donation · 10,000,000 USD (?→'05)

Holdings

Global Access Health

• Owner

Pivot Bio CRISPR Agriculture research company

• Owner

Child Organizations

Gates Ag One: Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations, LLC Gates Foundation Funded Non Profit

• Child Org (Jan '20→?)*

Level One Project Gates Foundation Program Promoting Digital Payment Systems

• Program ('15→?)

Members

Bloomberg New Economy Forum Policy Discussions Joining East and West

• Member

What Works Cities "Smart" Governance Initiative Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies

• Member

Memberships

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Philanthropy Ohio

• Member

Mojaloop Foundation

• Member

Southern California Grantmakers

• Member

Texas Rural Funders

• Member

Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement

• Member

Northern California Grantmakers Regional Philanthropic Network

• Member

Funders Together to End Homelessness

• Member

Grantmakers For Effective Organizations

• Member

Funders for Reproductive Equity

• Member

SDG2 Advocacy Hub Advocates for UN Sustainable Goal 2

• bridge member

Services & Transactions

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Inovio Pharmaceuticals biotech company focused on bringing to market DNA medicines for diseases

• grant · 5,000,000 USD

Uncharted Software Inc.

• Service/Transaction

Chuck Brooks Has extensive service in Senior Executive Management, Government Relations, Research & Development, and Marketing/Business Development

• Advisor, Technology Partner Network (May '15→Jul '16)*

National Equity Project Overcoming Opportunity Gaps, Oakland, CA

• Service/Transaction

Bridge International Academies Corporate Education Chain Serving Africa and India, Tech & Social Impact Investor Supported

• Investment of ('18→?)

Serco Services Inc. NSA contractor, bought by UK-based Serco in 2008

• Investment (Jul '19→?)

GEO Group Second-largest private prison operator

• Investment of ('14→?)

The Abraaj Group Dubai based private-equity firm, founded by Pakistani financier Arif Naqvi

• investment manager

Bridgespan Group Philanthropy advising for nonprofits

• Consultant To*

Public Strategies LLC political consulting firm with LGBT, AIDS and edu clients

• vendor

Miscellaneous Relationships

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African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting

• Resource Partners

SDG Impact Accelerator

• Affiliation

Sandra Smyser Superintendent

• Affiliation

Civic Enterprises

• Affiliation

Simprints

• Affiliation

Mojaloop Foundation

• Product ('17→?)*

Cargill Incorporated Food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services. Privately held.

• Investment Of ('10→?)*

Monsanto Patented the herbicide glyphosate

• Investment ('10→?)*

Oportunidades / PROGRESA First and Largest Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Mexico Begun 1997

• Collaborator ('08→'09)*

Liesbet Steer Director, Education Commission

• Work Funded by ('09→'13)*