"If you want to improve the rule of law, you need a way to measure it. The World Justice Project's Rule of Law Index helps the global community by doing just that - helping transform the global conversation about the rule of law, and in doing so, providing a new source of knowledge that can improve lives everywhere." -- Bill Gates
 
The Index relies on over 100,000 household and expert surveys to measure how the rule of law is experienced in everyday life around the world. In advance of the launch of the WJP Rule of Law Index 2014, we asked leading global voices to share their thoughts on the importance of the rule of law and the World Justice Project's efforts to measure it. Here's what Bill Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has to say about #WJPIndex. 
 
 
About Bill Gates
 
Bill Gates is an American business man, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, including the funding of numerous charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
 
Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

 

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