March 2016, Year VIII, n. 3
Sacha Polverini
An Italian at the Court of King Gates
Telos: The commitment of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is widely known, whereas that of the Financial Services for the Poor Program FSP is surely less. Could you tell us what is the FSP Program’s mission and the role you play in it?
Sacha Polverini: The Gates Foundation’s FSP Program aims at promoting access to basic and affordable financial services to the poorest segments of the world’s population. According to the World Bank’s latest figures (2014) 2bn people living on under $2 per day do not have access to formal financial services like savings, loans and insurance which we now give for granted in our life ...more
Editorial
“My full-time work will be the foundation for the rest of my life”. After categorically ruling out a return to the helm of Microsoft, Bill Gates is now focusing on much more noble challenges with his usual incisiveness and determination. Our interviewee Sacha Polverini, an Italian at Gates’ court, confirms that efficiency is the strong point of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the biggest charitable association in the world, managed with the same engineering forma mentis of its founder ...more
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