Melinda Gates, the wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, will resign from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s leadership after two years if she or Bill Gates can’t work together, the foundation said Wednesday. The announcement comes two months after the couple simultaneously announced they would be getting a divorce after 27 years of marriage. And the statement from the Gates Foundation, one of the largest in the world, is the first time it touched on how it would operate following the high-profile couple’s eventual split. “As noted in their divorce announcement in May and demonstrated in their public and private engagements since then,” the foundation said, “Gates and [Melinda] French Gates are fully committed to continuing to work constructively together at the foundation to advance its program and policy objectives.” But the statement noted that the two “also agreed to an additional step to ensure the continuity of the …