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| WHAT WE DO > NATIONAL SUMMIT > 2006 NATIONAL SUMMIT |
| 2006 National Summit |
Co-chaired by former Secretaries of State Madeleine K. Albright and Colin L. Powell, the IGD 2006 National Summit brought together some of the nation's foremost business leaders to discuss what role the private sector should play in solving one of the greatest challenges facing the world today: global poverty. Business leaders in attendance reviewed the current situation in the developing world and explored possibilities for creating a better future for us all.
Former President George W. Bush gave a major foreign policy speech at the Summit, emphasizing the power of trade to promote global development.
An estimated 29 million readers and viewers learned about the Summit through more than 200 media stories in outlets including ABC News, The Associated Press, BBC News, CBS Radio Network, CNN, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Seattle Times, United Press International and The Washington Post. Browse selected stories in our News & media section.
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| Speakers |
| Colin L. Powell, Former Secretary of State |
| Madeleine K. Albright, Former Secretary of State |
| Ambassador Karan Bhatia, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative |
| Ambassador John Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation |
| Donald L. Evans, Former Secretary of Commerce |
| Carleton S. Fiorina, Former Chairman, President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company |
| Rajat Gupta, Senior Partner Worldwide, McKinsey & Company |
| The Honorable Jim Kolbe, then Congressman (R-AZ) |
| Jim Lehrer, Executive Editor & Anchor, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer |
| William D. Ruckelshaus, Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator |
| Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University |
| General John M. Shalikashvili, Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Ambassador Randall L. Tobias, then U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator |
| Ted Turner, Chairman, Turner Enterprises |
| James Wolfensohn, Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Citigroup |
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| Host Committee |
| Raymond G. Chambers |
| Bruce R. Chizen, CEO, Adobe Systems, Inc. |
| William H. Clapp, Chairman, Global Partnerships |
| Daniel J. Evans, Former U.S. Senator |
| Donald L. Evans, Former Secretary of Commerce |
| Carleton S. Fiorina, Former Chairman, President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company |
| William H. Gates Sr. |
| Vinod Khosla, Former CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
| Admiral Bill Owens, USN (Ret.), Former Vice Chairman & CEO, Nortel Networks |
| Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland & Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| William D. Ruckelshaus, Former EPA Administrator |
| General John Shalikashvili, Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
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| Sponsors |
| Adobe Systems, Inc. |
| Alaska Airlines |
| The Boeing Company |
| Cargill |
| Citigroup |
| The CNA Corporation |
| Cummins Inc. |
| Edward W. Scott, Jr. |
| Gap Inc. |
| The German Marshall Fund of the United States |
| JELD-WEN, inc. |
| Legacy Works |
| Mercer Human Resource Consulting |
| Microsoft Corporation |
| Monsanto |
| Nike Foundation |
| REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.) |
| Richard C. Blum |
| The Rockefeller Foundation |
| Skyway Luggage Company |
| United Nations Foundation |
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