Greg Shaw is Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Greg founded the U.S. Program’s Advocacy team as well as its early childhood education strategy. He has served as Director of the foundation’s Pacific Northwest Program.
He was a partner with the communications firm of Shepardson Stern and Kaminsky (SS+K), and has been an advisor to the Gates foundation since 2001. Before joining SS+K, Greg spent six years as a leader in corporate communications at Microsoft. He helped to create the company's libraries giving program. Prior to Microsoft, Shaw was an executive with Ketchum Communications in Washington, D.C. He served in the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, and began his career as an editor of the Cherokee Advocate, the newspaper serving the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Greg has a B.A. in journalism from Northeastern State University in Oklahoma.
He lives in Clyde Hill, Washington, with his wife and two children.