Bill Gates
Billionaires Micro Soft founder, Bill Gates and Investment guru, Warren Buffett, have encouraged fourteen more billionaires from around the globe to join their foundation, the Giving Pledge the foundation have announced.
The fourteen individuals and couples from Australia, China, Cyprus, Monaco, Norway, Slovenia, Tanzania, and the United States, have agreed to contribute part of their wealth towards finding solutions to some of humanity’s most pressing challenges in areas such as poverty alleviation, medical and healthcare intervention, agriculture, education environmental protection.
In a statement, Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said: “Bill and Warren and I are excited to welcome the new, very international group of philanthropists joining the Giving Pledge, and we look forward to learning from their diverse experiences.”
The new entrants are:
Leonard H. Ainsworth — Australia
Mohammed Dewji — Tanzania
Dagmar Dolby — United States
Dong Fangjun — People’s Republic of China
Anne Grete Eidsvig and Kjell Inge Røkke — Norway
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou — Monaco,
Cyprus Nick and Leslie Hanauer — United States
Iza and Samo Login — Slovenia
Dean and Marianne Metropoulos — United States
Terry and Susan Ragon — United States
Nat Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons — United States
Robert Frederick Smith — United States
Harry H. Stine — United States
You Zhonghui — People’s Republic of China
Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett created the philanthropists group in 2010 to help make the world a better place.
