Tim Schwab is a freelance journalist. He is known for his investigation into the Gates Foundation.Schwab has reported on the weak public debate surrounding the Gates foundation, the colonial blindspots in Gates's giving, and the dearth of government regulations and oversight over the foundation. His work has appeared in The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review and the British Medical Journal, and represents some of the only investigative journalism ever published on Gates.Schwab received his M.A. in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.