For Immediate Release: January 24, 2025

Contact: press@clintonfoundation.org

 
The CGI 2025 Annual Meeting to be held September 24-25 in New York City. More information can be found at: https://clintonglobal.org/2025

 

NEW YORK, NY – Today, President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton kicked off the 20th anniversary of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), calling leaders from business, government, and civil society together for a meeting this year focused on what’s working, and how we can bridge divides to solve our most urgent crises.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2005, President Clinton announced that he would be convening the first CGI meeting that September, timed to the U.N. General Assembly, with the requirement that attendees make a commitment to act on a pressing global challenge. Since then, more than 500 million people in more than 190 countries have had their lives improved by more than 4,100 Commitments to Action launched through CGI.

The CGI 2025 Annual Meeting announced today will include programming and space for corporations and civil society to convene and take action, such as:

  • Programming on making renewable energy cheaper and faster; health financing and innovation; using targeted investments to address the mental health crisis, and more;
  • New emphasis on the use of AI and other technologies that can provide economic benefits while accelerating social good; and
  • Commitments to address humanitarian response and infrastructure rebuilding in the wake of natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, including the fires in California.

As always, CGI’s Annual Meeting will include a lineup of global leaders across business, government, and philanthropy. Recent CGI participants have included Ajay Banga, President, World Bank; President Joseph R. Biden; Albert Bourla, CEO, Pfizer; Jesper Brodin, Chairman and CEO, INGKA Holding; Matt Damon, Co-founder, Water.org & WaterEquity; Thasunda Brown Duckett, President and CEO, TIAA; Larry Fink, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, BlackRock; Michael J. Fox, Founder, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research; His Holiness Pope Francis; Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex; Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder and President, Emerson Collective; Michael Miebach, CEO, Mastercard; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization; Dana Perino, Co-Anchor of America’s Newsroom and Co-Host of The Five on FOX News Channel; Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google; Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President, Microsoft; La June Montgomery Tabron, President and CEO, W. K. Kellogg Foundation; Emma Walmsley, CEO, GSK; Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen; and more.

Since 2005, more than 10,000 partners have made Commitments to Action on urgent global challenges, including major initiatives launched by Cisco, Coca-Cola, Mastercard, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Walmart, and more.

Read President Clinton’s letter to the CGI community below:

To the CGI community:

When we launched the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005, it was the first time leaders from a broad cross section of society came together to make specific commitments to address the challenges we face. Not to talk, but to do something about them. I had no idea if it would work, but it turned out there was a hunger to work together.

After 20 years, the CGI model has changed the way the world looks at philanthropy and social good. And most importantly, the projects and programs launched at CGI have made a positive impact in the lives of more than 500 million people around the world. It never could have happened without you and the spirit of cooperation, innovation, and determination you’ve brought to this work — whether you’ve been to every Annual Meeting or you just joined us last year. Hillary, Chelsea, and I couldn’t be more grateful.

But we all know our work is far from finished — and is in fact more urgent than ever. That’s why we’ll be coming together again as a community for the CGI 2025 Annual Meeting on September 24 and 25 in New York City. As always, CGI will be a forum where leaders from business, government, and civil society can forge innovative, effective partnerships for climate resilience, health equity, women and girls’ equality, humanitarian response, economic inclusion and more. 

This year will be a time to celebrate the progress and impact we’ve made together. But the focus at the Annual Meeting won’t be the last 20 years—it’ll be on the needs of today and your ideas for tomorrow. We hope you’ll join us to build on all that we’ve achieved together.

With gratitude, 

Bill Clinton

 

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