Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates ( born August 16, 1964 in Dallas, Texas as Melinda Ann French) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the wife of Bill Gates, whom she met at Microsoft, where she was responsible as project manager for Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia.

In 1986, she received her computer science and economics at Duke University with a Bachelor degree in 1987 and made her MBA. On January 1, 1994, she married Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The two have three children, born in 1996, 1999 and 2002.

Together with her husband she founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity organization. For her commitment, she received the 2006 shown here with her husband, the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. Melinda Gates belongs to the Catholic Church.

In 2005, she was with her husband and U2 singer Bono Person of the Year Time magazine.

Your personal initiative is attributed to the existence of Office Assistant as Clippy ( known in the German edition as Clippit ) and the user interface Microsoft Bob.

2009 she and her husband received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, in 2013 the Lasker ~ Bloomberg Public Service Award was awarded both the Lasker Foundation. Melinda Gates has been selected by the American business magazine Forbes in 2013 to number 3 on the list of 100 most powerful women in the world.