Warren Buffett’s Best Investment

By Bill and Melinda Gates

The Path to a Meaningful Life

Sinclair Community College Commencement

Keeping Our Promise to 120 Million Women and Girls

How do you spend $5 billion a year?

One question that I’m asked almost everywhere I go is how the foundation decides to invest the…

The Educational Power of Goofing Off

One summer when I was in sixth grade my dad Frank called a family meeting. Dad, mom and — at…

Helping the Next Generation Plan Their Futures

The reason these young people focus on family planning…

Overcoming “Hidden Hunger”

The migration and refugee crisis — and the pressure it’s putting on Italian society — has been one of the most…

Reflecting on 10 Years at the Gates Foundation

If you had told me 10 years ago, when I took a job at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that I would still be there today, I would have been skeptical. Yet, I am still at the foundation and excited to stay, which maybe is a lesson about how…

Taking Steps to Expand Access to High-Quality Scientific Publishing

The earliest peer-reviewed scientific journal, titled Philosophical Transactions, was published in the spring of 1665. Every few months, an issue would be manually printed, stamped with the Royal seal and then…

Innovation: What’s Old Is New Again

Sometimes innovation is about applying new insights to very old…