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As Chair of the Gates Foundation, Bill shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organisation’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 and led the company to become the worldwide leader in business and personal software and services. In 2008, Bill transitioned to focus full-time on the foundation’s work. Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he pursues his work in climate change and clean energy innovation, Alzheimer’s research and other healthcare issues, interdisciplinary education, and technology. He is also the founder of Breakthrough Energy, which works to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and clean technologies.

Ngaire is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. She founded the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University and co-founded (with Robert O. Keohane) the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. Ngaire serves on the boards of L’Institut National du Service Public, the Berggruen Institute, and the Stephen A Schwarzman Education Foundation, and is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Rio Tinto. She is a member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s High Level Advisory Council and sits on the advisory boards of the Hoffman Institute for Business & Society at INSEAD, the Centre for Global Development, the African Leadership Institute, the School of Management and Public Policy at Tsinghua University, and the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at Cape Town University. She is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Good Governance, a member of South Africa’s G20 Africa Advisory Panel and an honorary governor of the Ditchley Foundation.