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Because he's been managing large scale responses to infectious diseases via his foundation for a decade or so now.

• burkaman 7y ago
  But he came into that position because he's rich, not because of any particular expertise, and he's been able to accomplish more than others for that same reason. He's done a lot of good, but there is not really any oversight into what his foundation does and no reason to believe he's doing the best possible job. He's just pouring a ton of money into a lot of very hard problems. If I had to pick someone, I would probably go with the guy who's already done this exact job less than two years ago and has experience with both global health and government service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Timothy_Ziemer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Timothy_Ziemer
  • Marsymars 7y ago
    > He's just pouring a ton of money into a lot of very hard problems. To expand on this, those problems take a lot of money to deal with, more than his foundation has, so in a lot of cases, the foundation effectively acts as force multiplier to get even more money on the problems. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/11/21133298/bill-gates-melinda-gates-money-foundation https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/11/21133298/bill-g...
  • dcolkitt 7y ago
    > But he came into that position because he's rich, not because of any particular expertise Except Gates is rich precisely because of expertise and talent. Without a doubt he's one of the best managers alive. Doubly so when those organizations are operating in complex, technically challenging, domains like software or epidemology.
  • hhjinks 7y ago
    He has ten years of experience. Not many others can point to that.