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Women
JANUARY 2013 -
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Melinda Gates
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Age: 48
Residence: Medina, WA
Country of Citizenship: United States
Education: Master of Business Administration, Duke
University
Marital Status: Married
Children: 3
Profile
When you have your name on the top of the world’s
wealthiest and most generous private foundation, chal-
lenging the Vatican to reverse its position against birth
control makes news. This summer Melinda Gates, a
practicing Catholic, vowed to dedicate her life - and an
additional personal $560 million - to improving access to
contraception to women in some of the world’s poor-
est countries. That brings the foundation’s contributions
to the cause up to $140 million each year for the next
eight years. Last year the charity gave away $2.6 bil-
lion and to date has made more than $25 billion in grant
commitments in poverty eradication, public health and
education. This year, the foundation took heat when a
$500,000 grant was made for the research and testing of
“attention”-tracking wrist-bands for school children.
Dilma Rousseff
President, Brazil
Age: 65
Residence: Brasilia, Brazil
Country of Citizenship: Brazil
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Federal Univer-
sity of Rio Grande do Sul
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: 1
Profile
The former revolutionary sits atop the world’s sixth-larg-
est economy (GDP $2.4 trillion). Now at the midpoint of
her first term Rousseff’s emphasis on entrepreneurship
has inspired a new generation of startups.