Mark Suzman, the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, wrote a scathing indictment in Foreign Affairs on how “rich countries’ selfish pandemic responses stoked distrust” between the global north and south.
Quoting Zimbabwean businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa, he wrote that rich countries’ behavior during the pandemic perpetuated “a deliberate global architecture of unfairness” that fomented a deep sense of betrayal around the world.
In an interview with Devex, he elaborated on how this “corroded trust” shaped the discourse over the fairness of the global financial architecture at last week’s World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Morocco.
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Anna Gawel
Anna Gawel is the Managing Editor of Devex. She previously worked as the managing editor of The Washington Diplomat, the flagship publication of D.C.’s diplomatic community. She’s had hundreds of articles published on world affairs, U.S. foreign policy, politics, security, trade, travel and the arts on topics ranging from the impact of State Department budget cuts to Caribbean efforts to fight climate change. She was also a broadcast producer and digital editor at WTOP News and host of the Global 360 podcast. She holds a journalism degree from the University of Maryland in College Park.
