At The New York Sheraton Hotel & Towers

Friday, September 25, 2009

Building on President Clinton’s lifetime in public service, the reflects his belief that governments need collaboration from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other global leaders to effectively confront the world’s most pressing problems. After attending thousands of meetings during his career in which urgent needs were discussed but no action was taken to solve them, President Clinton saw a need to establish a new kind of meeting with an emphasis on results. 

In 2005, President Clinton established CGI to turn ideas into action and to help our world move beyond the current state of globalization to a more integrated global community of shared benefits, responsibilities, and values. By gathering world leaders from a variety of backgrounds, CGI creates a unique opportunity to channel the capacities of individuals and organizations to realize change. To fulfill the action-oriented mission of CGI, all members devise practical solutions to global issues through the development of specific and measurable Commitments to Action.

CGI Annual Meetings have brought together more than 100 current and former heads of state, 14 Nobel Peace Prize winners, hundreds of leading global CEOs, major philanthropists and foundation heads, directors of the most effective non-governmental organizations, and prominent members of the media. These CGI members have made nearly 1,700 commitments valued at $57 billion, which have already improved more than 200 million lives in 150 countries.

The CGI community also includes CGI University (CGI U), a forum to engage college students in global citizenship; CGI Asia; and, MyCommitment.org, an online portal where anybody can make their own Commitment to Action. – President Bill Clinton will host the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an event that will bring together global leaders from business, government, academia, science, religion, and non-governmental organizations, including numerous heads of state, former heads of state, CEOs of multinational corporations and prominent philanthropists. CGI is a forum for participants to develop and then implement workable solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.
 

Some of the following panels included: Plenary: Investing in Girls and Women , Every problem in the world is exacerbated by gender inequality. Even though women make up 50 percent of the world's population, girls and women continuously lack the same access as men to education, health care, jobs, and the political arena. Yet each year of schooling increases a woman's income by 10 to 20 percent, and closing the gender gap adds 0.5 percent to a country's per capita GNP. Smart businesses appreciate that increased support for girls and women is integral to fostering successful markets for the future. Innovative programs are already producing remarkable results, and far-seeing countries and organizations are finding that reaching out to girls and women deepens confidence, creates opportunity, and raises profits. Participants: Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director, The World Bank
Diane Sawyer, Co-Anchor, Good Morning America, ABC Broadcasting
Rex Tillerson, Chief Executive Officer, ExxonMobil Corporation
Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Women’s Issues, U.S. State Department
And to view additional panels that took please log onto the website at http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/

Some of the participants included Queen Rania Al-Abdullah (Jordan), Prime Minister Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Kuwait), Prime Minister Shaikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani (Qatar), President John E. Atta Mills (Ghana), President Michelle Bachelet (Chile), President Bwezani R. Banda (Zambia), President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (Mongolia), Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkey), President Leonel Fernández (Dominican Republic), President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (Iceland), President Tarja Halonen (Finland), President Gjorge Ivanov (Macedonia), President Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Prime Minister John Key (New Zealand), President Václav Klaus (Czech Republic), Chairman of the Presidency Željko Komšic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), President Ernest Bai Koroma (Sierra Leone), President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (Phillipines), Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili (Lesotho), President Mohamed Nasheed (Maldives), Prime Minister Raila A. Odinga (Kenya), President René Préval (Haiti), Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam (Mauritius), President José Ramos-Horta (Timor-Leste), Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (Australia), President Mikheil Saakashvili (Georgia), Prime Minister Michael Thomas Somare (Papua New Guinea), President Danilo Türk (Slovenia), President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (Colombia), President Abdoulaye Wade (Senegal), President Umaru Yar’adua (Nigeria), President Viktor Yushchenko (Ukraine), President Valdis Zatlers (Latvia), Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Former President Martti Ahtisaari (Finland), Former Prime Minister Tony Blair (United Kingdom), Former Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik (Norway), Former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norway), Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Canada), Former Prime Minister Helen Clark (New Zealand), Former President Branko Crvenkovski (Macedonia), Former President José María Figueres Olsen (Costa Rica), Former Prime Minister António Guterres (Portugal), Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (Sri Lanka), Former President Ricardo Lagos (Chile), Former President Festus Gontebanye Mogae (Botswana), Former President Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria), Former President Andrés Pastrana Arango (Colombia), Former Prime Minister Poul N. Rasmussen (Denmark), Former President Jerry John Rawlings (Ghana), Former President Mary Robinson (Ireland), Former Prime Minister Jennifer M. Shipley (New Zealand), Member of the Presidency Haris Silajdžic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Former President Petar Stoyanov (Bulgaria), Former President Ernesto Zedillo (Mexico), Crown Prince Haakon (Norway), Crown Princess Mette-Marit (Norway), Dutchess Cristina Federica de Borbón (Spain), Former Ambassador to the U.S. Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud (Saudi Arabia), Gerry Adams (President of Sinn Féin), Minister of Cabinet Affairs Mohammad Al Gergawi (United Arab Emirates), Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohamed Al Khalifa (Bahrain), Chairperson of Museums Authority Shaikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (Qatar), Minister of Defense Ehud Barak (Israel), Mark Henry Durkan (SDLP), Leader Sir Reg Empey (SDLP), Minister of Employment Sir Reg Empey (Ulster Unionist Party), Secretary General Amre Moussa (League of Arab States), President George A. Papandreou (Socialist International), Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan (ASEAN), Fazle Abed (BRAC), Richard Adkerson (Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold), Madeleine Albright (Albright Stonebridge Group), Bradbury Anderson (Best Buy Co.), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development), Lloyd C. Blankfein (Goldman Sachs Group), Angela F. Braly (Wellpoint), Eli Broad (Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation), Peter Buffett (NoVo Foundation), Jennifer Buffett (NoVo Foundation), John T. Chambers (Cisco), Wesley Clark (Wesley K. Clark and Associates), Hillary Rodham Clinton (Secretary of State), Matt Damon, Robert E. Diamond Jr. (Barclays PLC), James Dimon (J.P. Morgan Chase), William Drayton (Ashoka: Innovators for the Public), Mike Duke (Walmart), Maria Eitel (Nike Foundation), Roger Ferguson (TIAA-CREF), William Frist (Princeton University), Helene Gayle (CARE USA), Carlos Ghosn (Nissan Motor), John Glenn (Ohio State University), Christina Gold (Western Union), Tom Golisano (Paychex Corporation), Al Gore (The Alliance for Climate Protection), Lew Hay (FPL Group), Carlos Slim Helu (Grupo Carso S.A. de C.V.), John B. Hess (Hess Corporation), Jeffrey Immelt (General Electric), Valerie Jarrett (White House), Quincy Jones, Muhtar Kent (Coca-Cola), Alicia Keys (Keep A Child Alive), Ashton Kutcher, Anne Lauvergeon (AREVA), Andrew N. Liveris (Dow Chemical), Jack Ma (Alibaba Group), Wangari Maatha (Green Belt Movement, Kenya), Charles MacCormack (Save the Children), Harold McGraw III (McGraw-Hill Companies), Demi Moore, Luis Moreno (Inter-American Development Bank), Ray Nagin (Mayor of New Orleans), Marilyn Nelson (Carlson Companies), Indra K. Nooyi (PepsiCo), Thoraya Obaid (United Nations Population Fund), Raymond Offenheiser (Oxfam America), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (World Bank Group), Pamela Omidyar (Humanity United), Pierre Omidyar (eBay), Guillaume Pépy (SNCF), John Podesta (Center for American Progress), Carl Pope (Sierra Club), Bernard J. Pousso (Wyeth), Jonathan Reckford (Habitat for Humanity International), Judith Rodin (The Rockefeller Foundation), James Rogers (Duke Energy), Zainab Salbi (Women for Women International), Peter Sands (Standard Chartered PLC), John R. Seffn (American Cancer Society), John Sexton (New York University), Premal Shah (Kiva.org), Josette Sheeran (United Nations World Food Programme), Hilda Solis (Labor Secretary), Mira Sorvino (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), Barbra Streisand (Streisand Foundation), Larry Summers (National Economic Council), Mark R. Tercek (Nature Conservancy), Rex W. Tillerson (ExxonMobil), Jonathan Tisch (Loews Corporation), Ted Turner (Turner Enterprises), Ann Veneman (UNICEF), Timothy Wirth (United Nations Foundation), David Yarnold (Environmental Defense Fund), Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank), Robert B. Zoellick (World Bank Group).
 

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