Q&A: MARK SUZMAN
MARK SUZMAN WAS APPOINTED CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on February 1. Among other things, he wrote for the Financial Times of London and worked at the UN. Suzman talked with Newsweek about the foundation’s two-decade anniversary, its future, The Giving Pledge and Covid-19, which broke into a full-blown crisis right after our first interview with him. Edited excerpts:
Q: Within weeks of your appointment, the Covid-19 pandemic emerged. How has it impacted your transition?”
We’ve had to find the right balance between what the pandemic has made urgent and what remains important for the long term. For example, one of my first priorities was to
