Bill Gates

After transitioning from his day-to-day work at Microsoft, which he co-founded with Paul Allen in 1975, Bill Gates has focused on the global health and education work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and climate change efforts of Breakthrough Energy. At Breakthrough Energy, he’s putting his experience as an innovator and problem-solver to work to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and clean technologies. Bill uses his experience partnering with global leaders across sectors to help drive the policy, market, and technological changes required for a clean energy transition.