January 15, 2009

Gates Fund Will Increase Giving This Year Despite Losses, New CEO Says

By Ian Wilhelm

Since Jeffrey S. Raikes joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation here as its new chief executive, he has been on a worldwide learning tour.

He has visited a rice research center in China, an Indian charity that assists female sex workers, and Washington inner-city schools to form a better understanding of the philanthropy's role in global health, American education, and international development.

But the last few months have not been a honeymoon period.

Since he

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