Melinda French Gates Resigns From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

‘This is not a decision I came to lightly,’ she said in a statement Monday.

Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates introduce the Goalkeepers event at the Lincoln Center on September 26, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images

Melinda French Gates said she is resigning from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that she started alongside Bill Gates, her former husband and former world’s richest person.

Bill and Melinda Gates filed for divorce in 2021 after 27 years of marriage but had pledged to continue their philanthropic work together.