Bill Gates in The Economist?

September 17, 2009 1:20 AM

Bill Gates wrote a letter to the editor that was published in The Economist within the past year or two. Can you track down what issue it was in?

I think he was discussing his work on malaria with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and it's absolutely vexing me that I cannot find it, even as a subscriber using their archive search options.

Any insight? (I'm pretty sure he signed as Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, so this was since he stepped down. And a straight up Letter, not a special report or The World piece or guest column.)

Thanks!

posted by disillusioned to Grab Bag (4 answers total)

This one?


posted by Mil at 1:36 AM on September 17, 2009

Whoops: Eliminating malaria Sep 25th 2003
posted by Mil at 1:37 AM on September 17, 2009 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Sadly, no. There are several articles about Malaria and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, but this was an actual letter, published in the Letters section in response to earlier coverage...
posted by disillusioned at 8:23 AM on September 17, 2009

Is this it? It wasn't published in The Economist, but the magazine does talk mention it here.

The letter is long, but it closes with:

Bill Gates
Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
January 2009
posted by alligatorman at 8:37 AM on September 17, 2009