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Clinton Global Initiative 2009 SPECIAL SESSION:
APPROACHES TO INNOVATION Wednesday, September 23, 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM ★ Empire East, 2nd Floor
At a time when the world finds itself on an unsustainable course, facing an increasing number of complex challenges
for which traditional approaches are no longer sufficient, innovation stands as a key to addressing many of the issues confronting
us today. During this session, experts in the field will discuss the importance of innovation as a vehicle for building a
sustainable future. Where does innovation begin? What should be the role of government in promoting and facilitating innovation?
Which countries are leading the charge, and how do you best position yourself and your organization to take advantage? This
panel will provide a broad introduction to innovation, various approaches to cultivate it, and implications for those who
pursue it and those who don’t. Program Participants:William
Drayton, Founder and CEO, Ashoka
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt,
S.W. Ascherman Professor of Strategy and Organization, School of Engineering, Stanford University
Reena Jana, Editor, Innovation Department, BusinessWeek
John Kao, Chief Executive Officer,
Kao & Company PLENARY SESSION:
INVESTING IN GIRLS AND WOMEN Wednesday, September 23, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM ★ Metropolitan Ballroom, 2nd floor 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. This panel will examine a few notable success stories.PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Edna Adan, Director and Founder, Edna Adan Maternity and Teaching Hospital
Lloyd C.
Blankfein, Chairman and CEO , The Goldman Sachs Group,
Inc.
Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO , Women for Women International
Diane Sawyer, Co-anchor, “Good Morning America”; Co-anchor,
“Primetime”
Rex Tillerson, Chairman and CEO, ExxonMobil
Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, Office
of the Secretary, U.S. Department of State
Robert B. Zoellick, President, The World Bank Group PLENARY SESSION:
HARNESSING INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT Wednesday, September 23, 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM ★ Metropolitan Ballroom, 2nd Floor The year 2008 will come to be recognized as the turning point when a series of crises
gripped the planet: the spike in oil prices, the world food shortage, and the global financial meltdown. Add these to the
list of ongoing mega-problems and it becomes clear that innovation on a massive scale is required to move us toward a more
sustainable world. This plenary session explores the innovation strategies needed to effectively address the planetary crises
we now face. From incremental improvements within existing modes of operation to leapfrog innovations in clean technology
and bottom-up business creation models to serve the poor, panelists will discuss which strategies they consider critical to
effectively harness innovation for sustainable development.PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Matthew Bishop, New York Bureau
Chief and American Business Editor, The Economist
Al Gore, Chairman,
The Alliance for Climate Protection
Jack Ma, Chairman and CEO, Alibaba
Group
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director, The World
Bank Group
Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation
Muhammad
Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank |
Seminar: Becoming Embedded: Co-Creating Business with the CommunityWednesday, September 23, 2:45 PM - 4:30 PM ★
New York East, 3rd Floor
Smart companies are trying to rethink global
strategies and get beyond one-size-fits-all solutions. Increasingly, companies viewed as outsiders – alien to both the
cultures and the ecosystems within which they do business – are finding it difficult to realize their full economic
and social potential. A key innovation challenge is for companies to become more indigenous in the communities they seek to
serve. Doing so requires that they broaden their bandwidth by involving voices that have previously gone unheard to co-create
businesses with local partners. A more inclusive form of capitalism thus requires innovation not only in technology, but also
in business procesess and mindsets. This panel will discuss the challenges and opportunities for businesses seeking to become
more locally embedded. (Global challenges emphasized: economic empowerment)
COMMITMENTS PRESENTER: Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Gordon A. Enk, Vice President of Strategy and Co-Founder Enterprise for a Sustainable World
Paul Polak, Founder, IDE , D-Rev, and Windhorse International
Simona Rocchi, Director, Sustainable Design, Philips
Erik Nikolajs Simanis, Senior Researcher, Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, Johnson School of
Management, Cornell University
Doug
Solomon, Chief Technology
Officer, IDEO SPECIAL SESSION:
FROM CEO TO NGO Wednesday,
September 23, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ★ Empire East, 2nd Floor
(Sign-up required) During this
session, former executives will come together to discuss the importance of philanthropy and how their background in the private
sector has allowed them to effectively take part in non-profit organizations and foundations. When their main focus is on
improving the global community and not their bottom line, what advice do they have for the private sector? And, what do they
know from their current work that they wish they had known when they were only running multi-million for-profit dollar enterprises?
This panel will showcase not only how non-profits can learn from the business community but how the business community can
learn from non-profits. PROGRAM
PARTICIPANTS: Eli Broad, Founder, The Broad Foundation
Chrystia Freeland, U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times
Ted Turner, Chairman, Turner Enterprises, Inc.
Amy Robbins, Founder,
The Nduna Foundation
Bob Wright, Co-Founder, Autism Speaks;
Senior Advisor, Lee Equity Partners PLENARY SESSION:
STRENGTHENING INFRASTRUCTURE Thursday, September 24, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM ★ Metropolitan
Ballroom, 2nd floor Strong and
vibrant infrastructure is central to solving pressing global challenges, from improving health care delivery and reducing
poverty, to fixing slums and responding to global warming. But today we are seriously under-investing in the world’s
physical and institutional infrastructure. As CGI’s Annual Meeting unfolds, G-20 leaders will gather in Pittsburgh to
confront the economic slowdown. Public works investment and new information technology can provide a foundation for recovery
by facilitating job creation, unleashing private sector investment, and promoting an equitable transition to a lower-carbon
and more prosperous global economy. This plenary session will explore how strategic public investment in smarter infrastructure
can create opportunities for industry, address deep social needs, promote effective public-private collaboration, and jumpstart
the world economy.PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Kofi Annan, Former Secretary General, United Nations; President, Kofi Annan Foundation
John T. Chambers,
Chairman and CEO, Cisco
Carlos Ghosn,
Chairman and CEO, Renault-Nissan Alliance
Jeffrey Immelt,
Chairman and CEO, General Electric
Ray Suarez,
Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour INFRASTRUCTURE BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
Townhall: The Infrastructure of Human Dignity: Protecting
the Most Vulnerable Thursday,
September 24, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM ★ Empire East, 2nd floor
(Sign-up required) Modern delivery systems for health care, safe drinking water, sanitation,
nutrition, clean energy, and education are essential for meeting basic human needs. Without proper infrastructure, many
people go unfed, children go without reliable water or sleep in makeshift homes, and the sick and dying are denied adequate
medical attention. Patterns of infrastructure development, planning, and investment determine our ability to realize the goals
of reversing global poverty, increasing rural economic development, and expanding access to quality health care. This panel
will look at the human consequences of physical infrastructure investments, with a special emphasis on improving health outcomes
through better sanitation, increased water supplies, expanded food availability, rebuilding slums, and training and human
capital. COMMITMENTS PRESENTER: Nicholas D. Kristof,
Columnist, The New York Times; Co-Author, “Half the Sky"
PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:
Paul Farmer, Founder, Partner in Health
Wangari Maathai, Founder, The Green Belt Movement, Kenya
Ingrid Munro,
Founder, Jamii Bora Trust; Group CEO, Jamii Bora Group
John Podesta,
President and CEO, Center for American Progress
Robert E. Rubin,
Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former United States Secretary of the Treasury INFRASTRUCTURE BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
Seminar: Infrastructure of Recovery: Good Jobs and Smart
Growth Thursday, September
24, 10:30 PM - 12:30 PM ★ New York East, 3rd floor
(Sign-up required)
Global recession has slowed private sector
investment and caused rampant job loss. In response, governments around the world are investing in economic recovery through
forward-looking public works projects. This new generation of infrastructure investments – from broadband networks to
transit systems to clean energy technology – is laying the groundwork for global deployment of advanced technology and
private sector innovation. The response to the economic crisis has set the stage for a new generation of smarter infrastructure
empowered by better use of information and more efficient use of resources. Outdated development patterns are being “leap-frogged.”
This session provides an opportunity to reflect on progress one year into the economic crisis and to examine the relationship
between the public and private sectors. COMMITMENTS PRESENTERWilliam
H. Frist, University Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary of State Management
and Resources, U.S. Department of State
Reema Nanavaty,
Director, Economic and Rural Development, Self Employed Women’s Association
Michele Norris, Host, All Things Considered, National Public Radio
Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland; President, Realizing Rights – The Ethical
Globalization Initiative
James E. Rogers,
Chairman, President, and CEO , Duke Energy Corporation HUMAN CAPITAL BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
Townhall: Developing the 21st Century Workforce
Thursday, September 24,
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM ★ New
York West, 3rd floor
From the United States to Uganda, too many schools
and communities are failing to equip young people with the education needed to succeed. There are real opportunities for new
partnerships to develop skills for the knowledge-based, low-carbon economies of the future, to retrain people who have lost
their jobs in the crisis, to create new types of green jobs, and to improve the teaching of science, math, health, and business.
Companies have a clear interest in finding ways to develop the human capital not only of their own workers and business partners
but also of the young people in the communities and countries in which they operate.COMMITMENTS PRESENTER: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:Gwen Ifill, Moderator & Managing Editor, Washington Week with Gwen Ifill & National Journal
Jamie P. Merisotis, President and CEO , Lumina Foundation for Education
Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank
James Mwangi, Managing Director and CEO, Equity Bank Limited
Soraya Solti, Senior Vice President, MENA, INJAZ al Arab INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIAL SESSION:
BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE - A PROGRESS REPORT ON MAKING
IT RIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS Thursday,
September 24, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM ★ New York East and West,
3rd floor
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina offers powerful lessons
for the global community as we prepare for a future shaped by global warming and recovery from economic crisis. The collision
of natural disaster, persistent poverty, and failed public infrastructure investments proved lethal for the people of New
Orleans. In response, a commitment launched through CGI is trying to “Make it Right.” This special session offers
a progress report on this CGI commitment, demonstrating concretely how government, non-profits, and the private sector can
work together to build safer, stronger, and more resilient communities while expanding economic opportunity. From one of the
greatest disasters in American history, “Make it Right” is laying the groundwork for new prosperity and new beginnings
on a foundation of affordable green housing. The discussion will include specific stories of the recovery in New Orleans,
and launch a dialogue with CGI members on the future of green infrastructure and sustainable cities. PROGRAM
PARTICIPANTS:William Jefferson
Clinton, 42nd President,
United States of America; Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative
Nawal Al-Hosany, Director of Sustainability,
Masdar City, UAE International
Melody
Barnes, Director of
Domestic Policy Council, White House
Tom Darden, Executive Director, Make It Right
Richard Fedrizzi, President, USGBC
Brad Pitt, Founder, Make It Right
Dierdre Taylor, Make It Right Homeowner; Hospice Worker CLINTON GLOBAL CITIZEN AWARDS CEREMONY Thursday, September 24, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ★ Metropolitan Ballroom, 2nd Floor President Clinton, along with special guests, honors extraordinary people that have demonstrated visionary leadership in solving pressing
global challenges. Through their work, these citizens have proven that diverse sectors of society can work together successfully
to devise and implement solutions that effect positive, lasting social change. ANNOUNCING THE 2009 AWARD RECIPIENTS:Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda
Rola Dashti, Member of Parliament, State of
Kuwait
Asha Hagi Elmi Amin, Chairperson,
Save Somali Women and Children
Peter Bakker,
Chief Executive Officer, TNT
Ruchira Gupta,
President, Apne Aap Women Worldwide
Quincy Jones,
Founder, Quincy Jones Foundation PLENARY SESSION:
MOVING FROM CRISIS TO OPPORTUNITY - FINANCING AN EQUITABLE FUTURE Friday, September 25, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM ★ Metropolitan
Ballroom, 2nd floor This plenary
session will address how to move beyond the current economic and financial crisis to tap innovative sources of financing that
can provide stable, ethical, and scalable funding for organizations addressing the world’s most challenging problems.
The panel will bring together voices from across the financial continuum to discuss how the financial system can work for
all. It will point the way to align interests of public, private, and philanthropic capital to build solutions for a more
equitable world. PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Fale
Abed, Founder and
Chairman, BRAC
Sheila Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Maria
Bartiromo, Anchor,
CNBC
James Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Peter Sands, Chief Executive Officer, Standard Chartered PLC FINANCE BREAKOUT SESSION:
Townhall: Harnessing Financial Markets for the Global Good Friday, September 25, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM ★ Empire East, 2nd Floor
The slowing
of capital flows (private, public, and philanthropic) increases the need for double (or triple) bottom line investors. Capital
market solutions can raise billions in long-term financing required to address global challenges in climate change, health
care, education, poverty, and other areas. This breakout session will examine the infrastructure necessary for generating,
supporting, and measuring investments to leverage more finance from a greater variety of sources, channeled to points of high
impact in ways that produce clear social as well as financial returns. It will identify the roles that policymakers, regulators,
investors, entrepreneurs, and financial markets can play in building an infrastructure that engenders and supports high impact,
long-term investing.COMMITMENTS
PRESENTER: José María
Figueres, Former President
of Costa Rica; CEO, Concordia 21
PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of the Republic of Iceland
Shamshad Akhtar, Regional Vice President, Middle East and North Africa, The World Bank
Peter Blom, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board, Triodos Bank; Chairman, Global Alliance
for Banking on Values
Robert
Christen, Director,
Financial Services for the Poor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Roger W. Ferguson Jr., President and CEO , TIAA-CREF
Suzanne Nora Johnson, Chair, Global Markets Institute
Christine Eibs Singer, Chief Executive Officer, E+Co FINANCE
BREAKOUT SESSION:
Seminar: Deepening Financial Inclusion to Reach the Underserved - the Bottom Billion and the Missing Middle Friday, September 25, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM ★ New
York West, 3rd floor
Millions of poor families have gained access
to financial services through microfinance over the last thirty years. But there are two demographics currently below
and above the reach of most microfinance – the extremely poor (the bottom billion) and the small business entrepreneur
(the missing middle). This breakout session will examine scalable innovations now underway to extend financial inclusion
to these two demographics so that they too can help create equitable financial systems and become part of the answer to solving
world challenges like poverty, access to health care and education, and climate change. COMMITMENTS PRESENTER: Wangari Maathai, Founder, The Green
Belt Movement, Kenya
PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:
Abdul Karim Al-Arhabi, Minister of Planning and Deputy Prime Minister, Yemen
William
Foote, Founder and CEO, Root Capital
James
Gutierrez, Chief Executive Officer, Progreso Financiero
Mary
Houghton, President, ShoreBank Corporation
Elizabeth
L. Littlefield, Director, The World Bank; CEO, CGAP:
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor FINANCE BREAKOUT SESSION:
Seminar: Crossing Borders between Public,
Private, and Philanthropic Finance Friday, September 25, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM ★
New York East, 3rd floor
(Sign-up
required) Philanthropic, public, and profit-seeking
investors have begun to find creative ways to collaborate in financing responses to some of the world's most intractable problems.
This breakout session will look at creative finance tools being used to share the risks and rewards of investing in solutions
to poverty, access to health care and education, and climate change. The focus will be on profiling financial innovations
that can cross sectors while leveraging the comparative advantages of private, public, and philanthropic capital. By spotlighting
collaborative financing models and tools, and the impact of investing metrics being used to chart their successes, these models
and tools can be spread more widely throughout the public, private, and philanthropic worlds. COMMITMENTS PRESENTER: Helene D. Gayle, President and Chief
Executive Officer, CARE USA PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:Fola
Adeola, Founder and Chairman, Guaranty Trust Bank, PLC
Matthew Arnold, Principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.
David Bornstein, Author, Dowser.org
Rachel Kyte, Vice
President Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation
Julian Lob-Levy, Executive Secretary, The GAVI Alliance CLOSING PLENARY SESSION Friday, September 25, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ★ Metropolitan Ballroom, 2nd Floor The closing plenary will highlight progress achieved over the past five years, showcase
the accomplishments of the 2009 Annual Meeting, and inspire attendees to continue their work via Commitments to Action in
the year ahead with a keynote address from Hillary
R. Clinton, United States Secretary of State,
and closing remarks from President Clinton. Tuesdsay4.00 green investments
Barack Obama, 44th President, United States of America
PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President, United States of America; Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative
Michelle Bachelet,
President of the Republic of Chile
Kevin Rudd,
Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia
Mike Duke,
President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Muhtar Kent,
Chairman of the Board and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company Obam
talk on The spirit of serviceI
first saw it in my mother who devoted her life improving life of rural poor and helped pioneer microloans in Indonesia I saw it again
when I moved to Chicago, neighbourhood by neighbourhood- where I learnt real progress comes from the bottom up by people –
you have to set up and serve I see the spirit of service in my wife Michelle
– empowering people to live the dreams CGI The entrepreneurs
you have empowered with microloans, the green house gases you have cut We stand at a transformational moment in history – between great promise and great peril; reckless
speculation, the bad use of technology. The flow of drugs and guns, emissions in usa melting ice caps Threats and challenges of 21st C- no
one nation how large, how powerful can meet these challenges alone – we need new partnerships, creative collaborations,
a new spirit of global partnership We are summoning
new spirit of community service; to find community solutions that work and fund an replicate them across America; Global partnerships
initiative – newly created by Hilary Clinton – we need to make clear kind of future we want to build, across religions
and regions, citizens are needed to build good governance but we still need innovations We need civil society to help host aid without corruption; the purpose of aid must be to create conditions
where it’s no longer needed; We need to improve
public health systems capacity especially maternally and for children – we see development as a key element of American
foreign policy – standing together, working together and building together- students and optimism and entrepreneurs-
the spirit that says we can rise above barriers of race, religion , creed , country Your commitments have never been more needed; THE G-20 AND ITS IMPACT ON GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Tuesday, September 22, 6:00
PM - 7:00 PM ★ New York West, 3rd floor
(Sign-up required)
With a focus on major modern challenges – growing
populations, natural resource scarcity, global warming, dynamic global and financial markets, strains on social systems, and
incomplete economic opportunity for billions of people – this session will enable G-20 Heads of State who represent
the largest economies in the world to preview their positions
in advance of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh.
G-20 world leaders will describe their outlook for the future and suggest opportunities to enhance cooperation among governments,
businesses, and civil society on issues of shared interest and importance that underpin a sustainable and prosperous future. Program Participants
Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of The Argentine Republic
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Lawrence H. Summers,
Director, National Economic Council
Ernesto Zedillo, Former President
of Mexico; Director, The Yale Center
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