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The History HourSecret D-Day rehearsal and YouTube beginsMax Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is World War Two military historian and archivist Elisabeth Shipton. We start by concentrating on two events from the last year of the Second World War.Exercise Tiger took place in April 1944 in preparation for the D-Day landings of Allied forces in Normandy. But during that rehearsal a German fleet attacked and about 749 US servicemen died. We hear remarkable archive testimony from Adolf Hitler's secretary who witnessed his last days in a bunker in Berlin...2025-04-2651 min
Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!Working on a Bigger Team (with Julia Keren-Detar)We continue the recent production talks this week as we welcome Julia Keren-Detar into the clubhouse! The discussion topic is "working on a bigger team" but we also somehow talk about rain water barrels at some point? It's relevant, I swear.Mushroom 11 - Untame, SteamWorking on a Bigger TeamProductionWork: A deep history, from the stone age to the age of robots - James Suzman, Penguin Random HouseAn example of what Ellen brings up during the episode, probably.2023-09-1400 min
The Switch by Nonprofit HRLeslie Mays sits down with Lisa Brown Alexander to discuss organizational culture at The Gates FoundationIn this episode, Lisa sits down with Leslie Mays, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer for the Gates Foundation, to deliver thoughts and insights about organizational culture, experimenting with a hybrid, globally distributed workforce struck by the pandemic, and navigating your employees and their welfare — first and foremost — to pull them back into an organizational environment! In this episode, you’ll hear: What the organization’s solid, philosophical approach to return to the workplace looks like, which starts with a commitment to greater equity and inclusiveness through their DEI Framework. Considerations to arrive at a hybrid...2023-08-0437 min
Make Me Care AboutMake Me Care About Digital MoneyThese days, there’s an app for everything, including your financial information. But what if you didn’t have access to receive and manage your own money? How would this limit how you live, thrive, or even survive? For many people - especially women - digital tools help unlock their power and agency over their own lives, and are the catalysts for change for growing economies. This episode features Jen Hatmaker, an American author, speaker, blogger, and television presenter, in conversation with Deon Woods, a Senior Program Officer focusing on Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill...2023-05-2418 min
Make Me Care AboutMake Me Care About Ancient GrainsDid you know that most of the world is consuming food that's more than 10,000 years old? Well, at least descended from the same plant…Quinoa, farro, millet, sorghum, teff, fonio, and even things like rice and corn are all considered ancient grains. These grains may hold the answer to providing food security in a world affected by climate change as they are easy to grow, hearty, and drought resistant. Make Me Care About is produced by Magnificent Noise in partnership with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.To learn more about our show: https://www...2023-05-1018 min
The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)Bonus Episode: Women's Financial Inclusion Davos PanelOne silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is many more women have bank accounts than before. Around 250 million women in the global south opened a financial account for the first time to receive government assistance, according to analysis by the Women’s World Banking’s 2021 Global Findex Database. Also for the first time, the gender gap in account ownership across developing economies fell. But data is also showing that many of these women are not retaining these accounts. What can be done to ensure these newly banked women remain in the financial system? On a special bonus episode...2023-03-0835 min
Washington Post LiveGates Foundation CEO on global health and pandemic preparednessWashington Post senior writer Frances Stead Sellers speaks with Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, about lessons from COVID-19, pandemic preparedness and the resiliency of the global health system.
Conversation recorded on Thursday, March 2, 2023.2023-03-0230 min
レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article PodcastGates Foundation pledges $7B for health, farming in AfricaBill Gates, on a visit to Kenya, has announced his foundation will spend $7 billion to improve health, gender equality and farming in Africa.
The new pledge will be spent over the next four years and is in addition to existing Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding to strengthen health systems across the continent.
“Africa’s young people have the talent and opportunity to accelerate progress and help solve the world’s most pressing problems,” Gates said.
The new funding comes as countries in East Africa and the Horn of Africa face the worst drought in decades.
“We will invest in local institutio...2022-12-2101 min
Devex PodcastsMark Suzman on Gates' 'shift' on climateAround 80% of the farmland in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia is managed by smallholder farmers who provide up to 80% of the food supply in these regions. Extreme weather events fueled by climate change, such as droughts and flooding, are making their livelihoods unsustainable in some parts of the world, driving mass migration and fueling poverty and malnutrition.
In the third episode of the COPcast, Devex sat down with Mark Suzman, chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to discuss the foundation's recently announced $1.4 billion investment in helping smallholder farmers adapt to climate change announced this week at the United...2022-11-1028 min
Climate +Mark Suzman on Gates’ 'shift' on climateAround 80% of the farmland in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia is managed by smallholder farmers who provide up to 80% of the food supply in these regions. Extreme weather events fueled by climate change, such as droughts and flooding, are making their livelihoods unsustainable in some parts of the world, driving mass migration and fueling poverty and malnutrition. In the third episode of the COPcast, Devex sat down with Mark Suzman, chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to discuss the foundation's recently announced $1.4 billion investment in helping smallholder farmers adapt to climate change announced this week at...2022-11-1028 min
Yahoo Finance PresentsYahoo Finance Presents: Mark Suzman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEOYahoo Finance’s Julie Hyman and Akiko Fujita sit down with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO, Mark Suzman, to discuss the foundation’s 2022 Goalkeepers Report, world hunger, climate change, and gender equality.2022-10-2109 min
C-Suite Conversations with Dr. Patrick LeddinEpisode #37 Mark SuzmanJoin CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mark Suzman, as he discusses the organization’s vision to create a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life while also creating impact and leaving a legacy worth remembering.2022-09-1535 min
Inside Social InnovationCrisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders— Navigating the Pandemic“Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders” is produced in partnership by The Pew Charitable Trusts and Stanford Social Innovation Review. In this final episode of this special series, Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, share how they’re redefining the role of philanthropy in addressing public health crises and preparing for future pandemics. A full transcript is available here.2022-03-1025 min
After the FactCrisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders— Navigating the PandemicStory: “Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders” is produced in partnership by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. In the series, leaders from across the social sector share insights about how they are innovating during challenging times. The COVID-19 pandemic shook the world, challenging public health systems and communities. In this final episode of this special series, Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, share how they’re redefining the role of philanthropy in addressing public health crises and preparing for future...2022-03-1025 min
Love Your WorkFarm What You ForageMany people think our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived short and miserable lives. In fact, that’s what most anthropologists thought. Until the 1960s, when they looked more closely at how foragers got by. The way foragers “worked” can tell us a lot about the way we, as creators, work. Farming gets a lot of output with little effort No one can be exactly sure when a human first planted a seed to grow food, but this one act was one of the most revolutionary in human history – up there with the invention of fire, or the internet...2021-11-2512 min
Talking Africa#117: Mark Suzman, Gates Foundation CEO - "Stop stockpiling vaccines"Mark Suzman is the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.He sits astride one of the biggest charitable endeavours on the planet, a $50bn endowment that has in the last 18 months thrown itself at the Covid-19 pandemic, funding all manner of research and vaccine trials, and now the COVAX scheme itself.In this conversation with Nicholas Norbrook, he talks through the thorny nature of global collective action problems, and why the world should fund African vaccines shots to avoid a costly new Covid-19 variant.2021-11-1826 min
ORF PolicyPodVaccine Diplomacy: How India is helping the world fight COVID-19In the latest episode of Raisina 2021, we explore India’s increasing engagement in health, development, and technology solutions in the post-pandemic global debate. There are three critical components. First, India’s partnership in vaccinating the world against COVID-19. Second, India’s new role in proactively responding to health and development imperatives beyond its own people. Third, India as an emerging solutions provider as technology and its application takes centre-stage.
In conversation with S. Jaishankar, Minister for External Affairs, India, and K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor, India in conversation with Mark Suzman, Chief Executive Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United States.
The Ra...2021-10-2329 min
Dead Rabbit Radio The Daily Paranormal PodcastAre UFOs Shaped Like Alien Genitalia?Today we find ourselves embroiled in a lawsuit with a baby melting billionaire, uncover a mystery that turns into a conspiracy, and then we get another dose of Jason’s Thinkins! Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=18482113 MERCH STORE!!! https://tinyurl.com/y8zam4o2 Help Promote Dead Rabbit! Dual Flyer https://i.imgur.com/OhuoI2v.jpg "As Above" Flyer https://i.imgur.com/yobMtUp.jpg “Alien Flyer” By TVP VT U https...2021-09-1339 min
Pro Politics with Zac McCraryBonus Episode: 30 Minutes with Singer/Songwriter/Novelist Kinky FriedmanSend us a textEnjoy a short bonus episode with the iconic (and iconoclastic) Kinky Friedman...country music legend, best-selling novelist, and sometimes political candidate. Kinky talks through some of his political heroes, his favorite political stories, his time in the Peace Corps, his friendship with both Bill Clinton and George W Bush.,.& and closes the episode with one of his songs - that was a favorite of Nelson Mandela.IN THIS EPISODE...Kinky talks about the politician that spoke to him most as a kid....Kinky tells the...2021-06-0431 min