Devex Pro Insider: What do Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and the pope have in common?
By David Ainsworth // 12 May 2025
So what do Gates, Trump, and Pope Leo XIV have in common?
Well, for starters, they’re all in one of my favorite jokes, which starts out: “Bill Gates, the pope and Donald Trump are on a plane,” although you’ll have to Google the rest to find out the punchline.
They’re also all in this newsletter.
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David Ainsworth@daveainsworth4
David Ainsworth is business editor at Devex, where he writes about finance and funding issues for development institutions. He was previously a senior writer and editor for magazines specializing in nonprofits in the U.K. and worked as a policy and communications specialist in the nonprofit sector for a number of years. His team specializes in understanding reports and data and what it teaches us about how development functions.
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