NEW YORK, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The Louise Blouin Foundation (LBF) is pleased to announce the fifth annual Blouin Creative Leadership Summit (BCLS), a forum in partnership with the United Nations Office of Partnerships that engages in dialogue and exchanges best practices to successfully confront the challenges and opportunities brought about by globalization over the coming decade.
From September 22 - 23, 2010, 100 international heads of state, global CEOs, entrepreneurs, scholars, artists and thought-leaders will assemble in New York to address critical issues of the 21st century surrounding economic recovery, global governance, environmental reform, foreign policy, education, health, poverty and development and technology.
"It is essential that our world leaders engage around the urgent issues facing us - our collective future; our opportunities and challenges, and how to develop solutions that will ensure a safer, healthier and more prosperous planet," says Louise Blouin, Founder and Chairman of LBF. "The BCLS is about acclaimed global leaders discussing, debating and taking action on issues that effect us all, across borders and cultures."
The 2010 BCLS heads of state include Prime Ministers from the Netherlands, Mongolia, St. Lucia and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Presidents of Honduras and the Republic of Namibia; and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia. They will be joined by delegates including Mark Angelson (World Color Press), Louise Arbour (International Crisis Group), Francesco Bandarin (UNESCO World Heritage Center), Lisa Dennison (Sotheby's North and South America), Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post), Chris Hughes (Facebook), artist Alex Katz, designer Bruce Mau, H.E. Amre Moussa (League of Arab States), Lieutenant General Robert Schmidle (US Cyber Command), Ali Velshi (CNN), Juan Ignacio Vidarte (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao), Monique Villa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) and Kandeh Yumkella (UNIDO). For a full list of BCLS participants and panel topics, or to register, please visit: http://www.creativeleadershipsummit.org .
The BCLS will conclude with the Louise Blouin Foundation Awards Ceremony and Gala, a celebration dedicated to honoring leaders in politics, science, business and the arts who have made extraordinary contributions on a global level. This year's honorees include Amir Dossal, Philippe de Montebello, Yue-Sai Kan, Alex Katz and Nicholas Negroponte.
For more information, please contact:
Eunice Kim
Tel: +1-646-753-9061
Email: ekim@artinfo.com
