Bill Gates’ daughter engaged to Egyptian equestrian

CAIRO: Jennifer Gates, daughter of billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has announced her engagement to Egyptian show jumper Nayel Nassar.
Gates shared her engagement with the world on Jan. 29 in an Instagram post which featured a picture of her and Nassar, which she captioned: “I can’t wait to spend the rest of our lives learning, growing, laughing and loving together. Yes a million times over.”

“I can’t wait to keep growing together through this journey called life, and I simply can’t imagine mine without you anymore,” Nassar wrote on the same picture of the couple. Nassar, 29, proposed to Gates, a 23-year-old Stanford graduate, during a ski trip.

The two have been together since January 2017, bonding over their passion for equestrian sports, with Gates also being an equestrian athlete who competes frequently but not on a professional level like Nassar. Both belong to the Paris Panthers, a riding club which competes in different forms of equestrian sporting events.

Similar to Jennifer Gates, Nassar was born to millionaire parents in Chicago in the US but was raised in Kuwait.
His parents run an architecture and design firm which relocated to the US in 2009.

Nassar began riding at the age of five and was jumping by the age of 10. He first qualified in 2013 for the FEI World Cup Finals, an annual international competition which includes the most skilled and talented show jumping horses and riders.

Nassar’s most significant achievement has been helping Egypt to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where Egypt will be participating in equestrianism for the first time in 60 years. He is ranked no. 41 in the world in the sport, according to the International Federation for Equestrian Sports.
Like Jennifer Gates, Nassar graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics, while she has a degree in human biology.
It is reported that the couple will take up residence in New York, as this is where Gates is enrolled in med school.