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Gates Foundation hires Sen. Klobuchar LD

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 30, 2018

Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D-MN) legislative director has moved from the Hill to the world's largest private foundation.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation added Anne Knapke as a senior program officer this month. The foundation, whose chief goals are reducing extreme poverty and improving health-care access, has an endowment of more than $50 billion.

Knapke had worked for Klobuchar since 2015. In May, Klobuchar and several other Democratic senators met with Bill Gates to discuss the Flu Vaccine Act, which, if passed, would help to develop a universal flu shot.