Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates

Cochair and trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Maybe it should be called the Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation. Her influence over the world's largest foundation is enormous -- Bill has said it wouldn't exist if it weren't for her. She has championed not only big-picture, tech-oriented solutions to improve health and education over the long term but also more modest steps to help the poorest of the poor right now, such as distributing condoms. The foundation's latest surprise: funding health and education messages to be integrated into Viacom TV programming. Sneaky? Perhaps. Daring? For sure -- and that's what Gates, 44, expects of the foundation. "We will get out there and try something," she told Vogue this year. "If it doesn't work, we will try something else. And we will keep trying until we find something that works." -- by Jeff Chu

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Melinda Gates

actually, Melinda French was a good product manager for Microsoft Word in the late 80's when it was in the process of passing Word Perfect

Well i'm pretty sure no one handed these people cash... so go out there make your money and make the list...

you know, one reason they are "creative" is because they have $$$$. Give me a million and I'll become top of this list. Period.

Agreed, Melinda as a 2nd place in RANK---is nothing but pandering to MSFT and it's God-Head Bill Gates.
I wonder how much Ad-Revenue FastCompany was scared of losing were it not to put her on this list.

RIOTS would have broken out were she placed above Jonathan Ive. At least give Credit towards that.

However, FastCompany is a 20th Century Newstand Rag--that still belives MSFT "innovates"--WOW--wonder where MSFT got the idea of Desktop Gadgets for Windows 7---yeah, Truly innovative....

PUUUUUUULLLLLEEEZZZEEEEE

This list is nothing but a JOKE!

Where is Alex Pentland, who is listed as one of the most influential persons of THE CENTURY---who is REDEFINING "Creativity"

For those slow on the uptake:
http://miteflink.org/top-navigation/innovation/interviews/honest-signals...

More proof (if anymore was actually needed) that the difference between marriage & prostitution is that prosties are relatively honest....

Please find something or someone more productive to fight. Personal attacks only made the attacker look small and narrow.

Use your gifts for building your own abilities. Make a positive difference in the world in your own right - nothing good from from negativity

Melinda Gates graduated from Duke University and is a capable and accomplished lady.

The selection of this cow as 2nd "Most Creative Person of 2009" is PC propaganda of the rankest sort. It calls every other selection into question. How many of the other choices were also motivated by politics?

Would still be an admin if it weren't for her husband.

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Photo Gallery

World Economic Forum 2009 | Remy Steinegger - Gates Foundation
Research Center in Mozombique | Jeff Christensen - Gates Foundation
Manhica Research Center, Mozambique | Jeff Christensen - Gates Foundation
Field Worker and Patient - Khayelitsha Site B Clinic, South Africa | Sharon Farmer - Gates Foundation
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Research Station, Abuja, Nigeria | Prashant Panjiar - Gates Foundation
Chura Village, Kenya | Courtesy of the Gates Foundation
KARI Research Center, Kenya | Courtesy of the Gates Foundation

Quotes

"We started this foundation with the premise that all lives are created equal. If an American child should be protected from measles, then so should a child living in Zambia."
- Gates of Heaven , Source

"We literally go down the chart of the greatest inequities and give where we can effect the greatest change."
- Melinda Gates goes public , Source

"It’s quite a responsibility, but there is this unbelievable joy to it."
- Gates of Heaven, Source

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Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist. She is the co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a former unit manager for several Microsoft products such as Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, chairman, and former chief software architect of Microsoft. -- Wikipedia (5/15/2009).