NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg
today announced a selection of featured speakers for the first-ever
Global Business Forum, which will bring heads of state together
with global CEOs to discuss opportunities for advancing trade and
economic growth, and the related societal challenges – from climate
change to workplace automation to terrorism – facing both groups.
The daylong Forum will be an unprecedented convening of major
business and government leaders from all regions of the world. It
will take place on Wednesday, September 20th,
2017 in New York City, during the
week of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Forum was inspired by the Bloomberg U.S.-Africa
Business Forum, which in 2014 and 2016 brought business leaders
together with heads of state from every African nation,
and the Clinton Global Initiative, which held its Annual
Meeting during U.N. General Assembly week and established a
new model to bring together global leaders from all sectors to
create and implement tangible solutions to the world's most
pressing challenges. The Global Business Forum seeks to build
on their success by convening leaders who are best positioned to
expand trade, drive economic growth, and tackle our most pressing
common challenges. World leaders from over 30
countries along with more than 100 global CEOs have
confirmed attendance.
"Global trade and investment are the most powerful forces we
have for reducing poverty and spreading opportunity – but too
often, business and government leaders don't realize how they can
help each other," said Michael R.
Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg
Philanthropies, and 108th Mayor of New York City. "The Africa Summit we hosted
demonstrated how much can be gained by bringing the two groups
together, and the annual meetings held by the Clinton Global
Initiative showed the incredible opportunity the U.N General
Assembly week presents for forging new partnerships. The Forum will
be a great opportunity for heads of state and CEOs to speak
directly with one another about ways they can work more closely
together."
Bloomberg is sponsoring the forum in partnership with the
Alibaba Group; Dangote Industries Limited; EXOR, the holding
company controlled by the Agnelli family; the Mahindra Group; and
MiSK, the philanthropic foundation of His Royal Highness Crown
Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz.
The featured speakers and participants at the Global Business
Forum will include:
- The Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd President of
the United States
- Bill Gates, Co-Founder,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Antonio Guterres,
Secretary General of the United Nations
- Jack Ma, Executive
Chairman, Alibaba Group
- Lloyd Blankfein, CEO and
Chairman, Goldman Sachs
- Laurence Fink, CEO and
Chairman, BlackRock
- Jim Kim, President, World
Bank Group
- Christine Lagarde,
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
- Paul Polman, CEO,
Unilever
- Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
PepsiCo
- David Rubenstein,
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group
- Masayoshi Son, Chairman
and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp
- Mary Callahan Erdoes,
CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management
- Lady Lynn Forester de
Rothschild, Chair, E.L.
Rothschild
- Aliko Dangote, President and CEO, Dangote Industries
Limited
- John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR
- Anand Mahindra, Chairman,
Mahindra Group
- Ajay Banga, President and
CEO, Mastercard
- Arif Naqvi, Founder and
Group Chief Executive, The Abraaj Group
- Euisun Chung, Vice
Chairman, Hyundai Motor Company
- Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah,
Chairwoman, Henkel
- Eileen Murray, Co-CEO,
Bridgewater Associates
- Isabelle Kocher, Chief
Executive Officer, ENGIE
More than 30 world leaders representing all regions including
G20 countries are confirmed to attend, including: Antigua and Barbuda; Bhutan; Republic of Botswana; Burkina
Faso; Colombia; Côte
d'Ivoire; Croatia; Georgia; Hungary; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Mali;
Malta; Mexico; Mongolia; Italy; Pakistan; Republic of Palau; Peru;
Singapore; Turkey; Republic of Seychelles; Zambia; and the EU. Many others, including
additional featured speakers, will be announced prior to the
forum.
"Global trade has lifted hundreds of millions of people around
the world out of poverty, but there's more that we can do. Alibaba
is proud to help make globalization more inclusive, enabling young
people, small businesses, and developing countries around the world
to share in its benefits," said Jack
Ma, Executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group.
The Global Business Forum will comprise a series of keynotes and
conversations with global experts and leaders to further inspire
and support plans for business and government collaboration for
economic growth. Country and business announcements resulting from
the Global Business Forum programming and smaller, private meetings
are also expected.
The 2017 Global Business Forum program will feature topics such
as:
- Multilateral engagement between business and government,
examining how CEOs and world leaders can work together to create
greater prosperity for more people, foster innovation, protect
workers and expand social progress.
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- As technology advances and increasing automation change the
nature of work, how will we create new jobs and economic
opportunities for those who are displaced?
- How can more CEOs seize the business opportunities inherent in
the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals?
- Understanding the new rules of globalization including
changes to international trade, immigration, and labor policies
amidst a populist backlash.
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- How should global trade deals evolve to create broader-based
prosperity?
- What other megatrends portend for the future of business.
- The greatest sources of opportunity exploring the new
business models poised to succeed in the new global order, and the
ways pioneering CEOs, world leaders, and next-generation
visionaries are adapting their companies, their investments, and
their national priorities to prosper in this new environment.
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- Inside one of the most ambitious economic programs of the
twenty-first century, China's Belt
and Road Initiative.
- What the economic transformation of Saudi Arabia means for global investment.
- Solving urgent global challenges through a new
multilateralism by finding innovative ways to fill the gaps of
government-led agreements with business solutions.
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- How will climate change and mass migration transform economies
and the planet and how can its effects be mitigated?
- Can disruptive technologies eradicate disease, create new
sources of clean energy, and eliminate poverty around the
world?
Media registration is now open and all media planning to
cover the Global Business Forum must be credentialed by
Bloomberg. Media can apply for media credentials here. The
event will also be streamed live on Bloomberg.com.
Please visit www.BloombergGBF.com for the latest program
details and confirmed participants. Follow Mike Bloomberg
at @MikeBloomberg on Twitter, Facebook,
and Instagram for meeting news and
highlights, and use the official meeting hashtag
#BloombergGBF.
Media partners for the Global Business Forum include Axios and
Quartz.
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