A snapshot of the planned agenda for the 10th annual
Clinton Global Initiative was released this afternoon.
President
Clinton, Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea
Clinton to Convene World Leaders to ‘Reimagine Impact’ at the 10th
Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
President Barack Obama; His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Mary Barra, Chief Executive Officer, General Motors Company; Matt Damon, Co-founder, Water.org; Melinda French Gates, Co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, the Coca-Cola Company; Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group; Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group; Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Chairman, The Paulson Institute, Former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States; Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President & CEO, IBM; Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation; and Muhammad Yunus, Chairman, Yunus Social Business - Global Initiatives among featured participants
At 10th CGI Annual Meeting, Sept 21-24
in New York City, more than 1,000 global leaders from business,
government, and civil society to reflect on progress of commitments made
over the last decade and address urgent social, economic, and
environmental challenges that lie ahead
NEW YORK – President Bill Clinton, Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton announced the program and participants for the 10th Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, to be held September 21-24
in New York City, where more than 1,000 of the most influential leaders
from business, government, civil society and philanthropy will convene
around the theme of “Reimagining Impact.”
President Clinton
established the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an initiative of the
Clinton Foundation, to bring leaders together from all sectors of
society to create and implement solutions to the world’s most pressing
challenges by turning their ideas into action. Participants turn their
ideas into action through the creation of “Commitments to Action” – new,
specific, measurable plans to address these challenges. Since the first
CGI Annual Meeting in September 2005, more than 180 heads of state, 20
Nobel Prize laureates, and hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of
foundations and NGOs and major philanthropists have participated in
CGI’s Annual Meetings, and members of the CGI community have made more
than 2,900 commitments which are already improving the lives of more
than 430 million people in over 180 countries.
For the first time,
CGI has evaluated and will share comprehensive data collected from the
commitments made over the past 10 years to highlight the most effective
approaches and analyze trends in an effort to help CGI members maximize
the impact of their work and identify critical gaps to be addressed.
Featured participants in the meeting include President Barack Obama; His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Peter Agnefjäll, President and CEO, IKEA Group; Mohammad Parham Al Awadhi, Co-founder, Peeta Planet; Peyman Parham Al Awadhi, Co-founder, Peeta Planet; Reem Al-Hashimy, Minister of State, United Arab Emirates; Mary Barra, Chief Executive Officer, General Motors Company; Amy Bell, Head of Principle Investments, JP Morgan Social Finance; Matt Damon, Co-founder, Water.org; Adam Davidson, Co-founder, NPR’s Planet Money; Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel; Paul Farmer, Co-founder, Partners in Health, Chief Strategist, Harvard Medical School; Melinda French Gates, Co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Fadi Ghandour, Founder and Vice Chairman, Aramex; Jay Gould, President and CEO, American Standard Brands; María José González, Executive Director, Mesoamerican Reef Fund; Alexander Grashow, Founder, The Adaptist; António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Former Prime Minister of Portugal; David Hertz, Founder & CEO, Gastromotiva; Jane Karuku, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA); Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, the Coca-Cola Company; Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group; Nicholas Kristof, columnist, The New York Times; Dymphna van der Lans, Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Climate Initiative; Elizabeth Littlefield, President and CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group; Christopher Mikkelsen, Founder and Co-CEO, Refugees United; Jay Naidoo, Chair of Board of Directors and Partnership Council, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN); Tammy Newmark, President and CEO, EcoEnterprises Fund; Nick O'Donohoe, Chief Executive Officer, Big Society Capital; Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Chairman, The Paulson Institute, Former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States; Norma Powell, Director General, Haiti Center for Facilitation of Investments; Becky Quick, Co-anchor, Squawk Box, CNBC; Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, Former President of Ireland; Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation; Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO, IBM; Charlie Rose, Host, “Charlie Rose Show”; Nilofar Sakhi, Executive Director, American University of Afghanistan; Howard-Yana Shapiro,
Chief Agricultural Officer, Mars, Incorporated, Senior Fellow, Plant
Sciences, University of California, Davis, Distinguished Fellow, World
Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi; Lucy Martinez Sullivan, Executive Director, 1,000 Days; Mark Tercek, President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy; Ashish J. Thakkar, Founder, Mara Group and Mara Foundation; Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark; Rosemarie Truglio, Senior Vice President, Global Education Content, Sesame Workshop; Hans Vestberg, President and CEO, Ericsson; Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation; Gary White, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Water.org; and Muhammad Yunus, Chairman, Yunus Social Business - Global Initiatives.
Key parts of the program at the 2014 CGI Annual Meeting include sessions such as:
- Reimagining Impact,
which will highlight the ideas and actions of CGI members over the last
decade, explore how members measure and assess the outcomes of their
commitments, and bring forth new ideas for CGI members to achieve
greater impact going forward;
- Confronting Climate Change is Good Economics,
will explore opportunities to assist in the financing of conservation
efforts, help unlock the capital required to accelerate investments
towards a low-carbon economy, and reinforce the critical role of women
in adapting to climate change;
- Valuing What Matters,
in which leaders can identify social and environmental indicators and
measurement systems that can be implemented in public, private, and
non-profit sectors, simultaneously assessing how best to
capture non-quantifiable outcomes and use big data for social good;
- Putting Education to Work, in which participants can collaborate across sectors to create education to employment pathways for young people and adults;
- Equality for Girls and Women: 2034 instead of 2134?,
which will examine the progress made since the 1995 Fourth World
Conference on Women in Beijing and explore opportunities to accelerate
the social and economic participation of women, who at current rates of
progress won’t comprise half of the world’s leaders until 2134; and
- The 8th annual Clinton Global Citizen AwardsTM,
which will kick off the meeting with a ceremony to honor individuals in
civil society, philanthropy, public service and the private sector
whose efforts to create positive social change transcend borders, change
lives, and set an example for others.
CGI recently
announced its first global challenge to engage individuals around the
world in tackling the issue of youth unemployment. The challenge
launched in partnership with and is hosted on OpenIDEO.com, an
open innovation platform created by global design firm IDEO, which
couples design thinking methodology with the scale of online social
networks to solve the world’s most pressing social issues. One featured
idea will be recognized at CGI’s 10th Annual Meeting in
September. Individuals can participate in the challenge by contributing
ideas, research and solutions at www.openideo.com/cgi.
