Who was Bill Gates’ Father?

William H. Gates Sr. was the father of Bill Gates. He was a prominent lawyer as well as the co-founder of Shidler & King which later went on to be named as Preston Gates & Ellis LLP. This firm later merged into a new firm which is now known as K&L Gates. He retired in the year 1998 from the firm, PGE.

Who was Bill Gates’ Mother?

Bill Gates’ mother’s name was Mary Maxwell Gates. She was an American entrepreneur and had served on the Board of Regents of the University of Washington. Other than this her achievements include being the first ever female president of King County’s United Way and the first ever female Chairperson of United Way’s Executive Committee. She was also the first ever

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Bill Gates’ Siblings – Kristianne Gates and Libby Gates

Gates has an elder sister named Kristi, who later became his tax accountant. His younger sister, Libby, lives in Seattle with her family. She focuses on raising her two children.

Who is Bill Gates’ Sister?

Bill Gates has two sisters. The elder one, Kristianne Blake nee Gates is a CPA who specializes in personal financial planning and tax planning. She also served as the partner in Deloitte, Haskins & Sells. Later in 1989, she started her own firm. His younger sister, Elizabeth Gates Armintrout aka Libby is associated with a number of service organizations like schools and support groups. She is a well known philanthropist.

Bill Gates’ Wife – Melinda Gates

Bill Gates met while Melinda was working at Microsoft. She is the co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously, Melinda used to work as a project manager at Microsoft for Publisher, Expedia, Microsoft Bob, and Microsoft Encarta. After marrying Gates, she left her job at Microsoft in order to start and raise her family. She lives with her children and husband at Lake Washington in Medina.

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As co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged by Jefferson Awards, along with her husband. In 2013, she was appointed Dame of the British Empire for her philanthropic activities.

Melinda and Bill Gates have donated more than US$24 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation until 2009. She has also donated over $10 million to Ursuline Academy of Dallas, where she completed high school.

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Who is Bill Gates’ Brother-in-Law?

Bill Gates has two sisters and thereby has two brothers in law. His elder brother-in-law is John Blake, who is married to his elder sister, Kristianne Gates Blake. His younger sister, Elizabeth Gates Armintrout is married to businessman Douglas Armintrout.

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Gates Sr. “has been a steady influence right from the beginning,” said Dr. Bill Foege, who recently retired as senior fellow for the Foundation’s Global Health Program and served as former director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control. “He provides that sense of security.”

In the late 1990s, Gates Sr. met with Foege, who came up with the strategy for eradicating small pox worldwide, to get his advice on the most worthwhile, promising strategies for addressing global health issues. Foege encouraged them to pursue vaccines, a path they were already exploring.

Working with Gates Sr. has provided Foege with some interesting insight into his own field.

“He has demonstrated to me that lawyers are more important than doctors when it comes to global health,” Foege said. It turns out that in some cases, changing the law can do more than medicine to make widespread strides in health outcomes.

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>Gates Sr. “has been a steady influence right from the beginning,” said Dr. Bill Foege, who recently retired as senior fellow for the Foundation’s Global Health Program and served as former director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control.

William Foege is a global health hero. Everyone from Bill Gates to Barack Obama says so.

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>William Foege

Some also might know him as the man who, in the late 1990s and well into the new millennium, helped the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launch and rapidly expand its revolutionary mission in global health—a mission that without question has transformed the global fight against many diseases of poverty. Others may recall that Foege was head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Carter Administration and into the first part of the Reagan Administration when a strange new disease emerged on the scene – AIDS.

In 2012, President Barack Obama awarded Foege the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of all his achievements in international public health.

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>William Foege

In 1984, Dr. Foege and several colleagues formed the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a working group for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Its success in accelerating childhood immunization led to an expansion of its mandate in 1991 to include other issues that diminish the quality of life for children.

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