Job title
Chairman
Company
Generation Investment Management
Bio and keynote/speaker topic/further reading
Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management. He is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of Apple's board of directors. Gore is also Chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit organisation devoted to solving the climate crisis. Gore was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the US Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. He is the author of the best-sellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and, most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, and a new film premiering in July 2017, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Gore is the co-recipient with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”
Keynote
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Al Gore