BY: Liliana Rocio, Senior Editor for World Liberty TV
: The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), a signature program of the Clinton Foundation that unites global leaders to take action on the world’s most pressing challenges, announced that the 2026 Annual Meeting will take place September 22–23, 2026 in New York City.
2026 marks the 25th anniversary of the Clinton Foundation opening its doors in Harlem.
Last week, Inside Philanthropy ran an in-depth assessment of President Clinton’s philanthropic legacy, concluding “Clinton has compiled a record of philanthropic impact since leaving office in 2001 that is unmatched by any former president and far more extensive than most people realize…
CGI remains one of the more innovative and potent philanthropic efforts of our time.”.
CGI’s Annual Meeting brings together heads of state, business leaders, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, and representatives from civil society to forge new partnerships, develop solutions to urgent global challenges, and drive measurable progress.
Since its founding in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, members of the CGI community have made more than 4,300 Commitments to Action in partnership with over 13,000 organizations across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors that have touched the lives of more than 500 million people in more than 180 countries.
Featured participants included President Irfaan Ali of Guyana; Michael Anders, Founding Partner, ICONIQ Capital; Ian Bremmer, President and Founder, Eurasia Group & GZERO Media; Sophia Bush, Actor, Author, and Activist; Carlos Eduardo Espina, Founder, The Espina Project; Flavor Flav, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee; Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author; Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Financial Health; Lupita Nyong’o, Actress and Advocate; Vjosa Osmani, Sixth President of the Republic of Kosovo; J.B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois; Dame Louise Richardson, President, Andrew Carnegie Foundation; Sami Sage, Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer, Betches Media; Alex Soros, Board Chair, Open Society Foundations; Abigail Spanberger, Governor of Virginia; V Spehar, Creator, Under The Desk News; Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Head, United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus; Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, CEO, Sceye; Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan; Ginger Zee, Chief Meteorologist and Climate Correspondent, ABC News.
Annual Meeting include Stacey Abrams, Lead, 10 Steps Campaign; Uzoamaka Aduba, Actor and Producer; Noubar Afeyan, Founder and CEO, Jeremy Allaire, CEO, Circle; Flagship Pioneering; George Arison, CEO and Chairman, Grindr; Ajay Banga, President, World Bank Group; Jarbas Barbosa, Director, Pan American Health Organization; Jared Bauer, CEO, Seek Labs; Aisha Bowe, CEO, STEMBoard; Kate Bowler, Associate Professor of American Religious History, Duke University; Marc Brackett, Professor and Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University; Giselle Carino, CEO, Fòs Feminista; Mathilda D’Silva,CEO, Ocean Purpose Project; Giles Duley, CEO and Founder, Legacy of War Foundation; Philippe Duneton, Executive Director, Unitaid; Janiece Evans-Page, CEO, The Tides Foundation; Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington; Heather Gerken, President, Ford Foundation; Sam Gill, President and CEO, Doris Duke Foundation; Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster, Chairman and CEO, InterEnergy Group; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder, LinkedIn and Manas AI; Board Member, Microsoft; Partner, Greylock Partners; Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Managing Director, GIZ; Andy Hunter, CEO, Bookshop.org; Greg Jackson, Founder and CEO, Octopus Energy Group; Michele Jawando, CEO, Omidyar Network; Kate Kallot, Founder and CEO, Amini; Sidsel Marie Kristensen, CEO, LEGO Foundation; Ann Lee, Co-Founder and CEO, Community Organized Relief Effort; Juvencio Maeztu, CEO and President, Ingka Group, IKEA; Kate Marvel, Senior Climate Scientist, Project Drawdown; José Luis Manzano, Chairman, Integra Capital; Abby Maxman, President and CEO, Oxfam America; Bernadette Meehan, CEO, Wikimedia Foundation; Jamie Merisotis, President and CEO, Lumina Foundation; President Roberta Metsola of the European Parliament; David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee; Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland; Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados; Carey Mulligan, Founding Global Ambassador, War Child Alliance; Bill Nye, Science Educator; Daniel O’Day, Chairman and CEO, Gilead Sciences; Sonya Passi, Founder and CEO, FreeFrom; Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Skye Perryman, President and CEO, Democracy Forward Foundation; Paul Polman, Business Leader, Investor, Philanthropist ; Samantha Power, Former USAID Administrator and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Greg Propper, Partner, Propper Daley, Bully Pulpit International; Megan Ranney, Dean, Yale School of Public Health; Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Laureate, Co-Founder and CEO, Rappler, Professor, Columbia University SIPA; Jason Rezaian, Director of Press Freedom Initiatives, Washington Post; Carmen Rojas, President and CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation; John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust; Barham Salih, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Tristan Schukraft, CEO and Founder, MISTR; Jochanan Senf, CEO, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc.; Ahmed Shehata, CEO, Islamic Relief USA; Chrissy Teigen, Founder, Cravings; Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder and CEO, Chobani; Jean Van Wetter, CEO, Enabel; Elaine Welteroth, Founder, birthFUND; Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Laureate and former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh; and more.
Sponsors for the CGI 2026 Annual Meeting include APCO, Bob and Jane Harrison, Bristol Myers Squibb, Doha Forum, The Eisenpresser Family Foundation, The EKTA Foundation, Flagship Pioneering, Gilead Sciences, Grindr Inc., Integra Capital, InterEnergy, The John D. Evans Foundation, Kapor Center, Kiani Foundation, La Colombe, Mastercard, MEBO International, MISTR, Pinterest, Strauss Media Strategies, Ukraine Children’s Action Project, U.N. Water Conference, Vestergaard, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. All Hands & Hearts, IDEA (Islamic Development & Empowerment in America), Minderoo Foundation, Postcode Lottery Group, and Sudanese American Physicians Association are serving as partners for the CGI 2026 Annual Meeting.
About the Clinton Foundation: Building on a lifetime of public service, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation on the simple belief that everyone deserves a chance to succeed, everyone has a responsibility to act, and we all do better when we work together.
For two decades, those values have energized the work of the Foundation in overcoming complex challenges and improving the lives of people across the United States and around the world.
As an operating foundation, we work on issues directly or with strategic partners from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors to create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service.
Our programs are designed to make a real difference today while serving as proven models for tomorrow. The goal of every effort is to use available resources to get better results faster – at the lowest possible cost.
We firmly believe that when diverse groups of people bring resources together in the spirit of true cooperation, transformative ideas will emerge to drive life-changing action.
Learn more at https://www.clintonfoundation.org/
Hundreds of people in attendance from all over the world, putting their humanitarian skills together to help humanity and try to solve many worldwide issues, that need to be solved.
President Clinton has been doing this for over 25 years with his foundation, since he left office. Helping close to 500 million people worldwide.
He truly is a great humanitarian, putting great minds together in one room and have them come up with ideas to help people worldwide.
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