Bill Clinton has announced the program and featured attendees for the seventh Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to be held September 20-22 in New York City.
This year’s gathering will bring together an estimated 1,200 diverse stakeholders, including current and former heads of state, Fortune 500 CEOs, national and local government officials, and leaders from the nonprofit sector to devise and implement workable solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
“Since we began in 2005, CGI members have made great progress in addressing critical global issues by making more than 2,000 commitments through CGI that have and will improve the lives of more than 300 million people in more than 180 countries,” President Clinton said. “As many of these commitments come to fruition, I am proud that we will be showcasing the tangible impact they have made.”
President Barack Obama will join President Bill Clinton again at the 2011 Annual Meeting of CGI in New York.
Among the other confirmed attendees include Bob McDonald, chairman of the board, president, and CEO, Procter & Gamble; Chelsea Clinton; Denis O’Brien, chairman, Digicel; Dikembe Mutombo, chairman and president, Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, Inc.; Geena Davis, founder, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media; Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of the Kingdom of Norway; Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, U.S. Department of State; Helene D. Gayle, president and CEO, CARE USA; Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO, PepsiCo; Jim Rogers, chairman, president and CEO, Duke Energy; John Chambers, chairman and CEO, Cisco; K'naan; Luis Alberto Moreno, president, Inter-American Development Bank; Mark Tercek, president and CEO, The Nature Conservancy; Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile and first under-secretary-general and executive director, UN Women; Muhammad Yunus, founder, Grameen Bank; Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO of the Coca-Cola Company; Paul Polman, chief executive officer, Unilever; Premal Shah, president, Kiva.org; Bob Diamond, Jr., chief executive, Barclays; Trudie Styler &
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