Posted by: werievents | September 22, 2008

A project of the non-partisan William J. Clinton Foundation

Last Year Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on the CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE

On Wednesday ,September 24th of this year , leaders from business, government, philanthropy, and religion will again gather in New York City for the fourth Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting to find innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges


CGI Annual Meeting

September 24 -26

ABOUT CGI

Established in 2005 as a project of the non-partisan William J. Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Since 2005, CGI members have made nearly 1,000 Commitments to Action valued at upwards of $30 billion to improve more than 200 million lives in over 150 countries around the world. Through past Annual Meetings, CGI has brought together more than 80 current and former heads of state, hundreds of top CEOs and non-profit leaders, major philanthropists, and 10 of the last 16 Nobel Peace Prize laureates.


Distinguished guests will include

  1. Her Royal Highness Rania Al-Abdullah, Queen of Jordan,
  2. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan,
  3. Senator Barack Obama,
  4. Senator John McCain,
  5. Bill Gates, Founder and Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
  6. Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
  7. President René Preval of the Republic of Haiti,
  8. Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
  9. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of the City of New York,
  10. John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems,
  11. Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director of Grameen Bank,
  12. Bono, Lead Singer of U2,
  13. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California,
  14. Lance Armstrong,Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Lance Armstrong Foundation,
  15. Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google,
  16. T. Boone Pickens, Founder and Chairman of BP Capital Management,
  17. Rick Warren, Pastor of Saddleback Church,
  18. Tom Brokaw, Special Correspondent for NBC News.
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