To help celebrate the launch of the Center for Sustainable Development, an array of distinguished leaders around the world shared their congratulations, words of wisdom, and calls to action.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-general, World Health Organization
Mark Suzman, CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Lauren Bush Lauren, CEO and Co-founder, FEED
Amb. Elizabeth Cousens, President and CEO, United Nations Foundation
Richard Curtis, Filmmaker; UN SDG Advocate; Co-founder, Project Everyone
Michael Faye, President and Co-founder, GiveDirectly
Karina Gould, Minister of International Development, Canada
Mariéme Jamme, Founder, iamtheCODE
Amb. Macharia Kamau, Principal Secretary, Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Peter Laugharn, President, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Nancy Lindborg, President and CEO, Packard Foundation
Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary, Canada
Michelle Nunn, President and CEO, CARE USA
HRH Mabel van Oranje, Initiator and Chair, Girls Not Brides
Bill Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh
John Podesta, Founder, Center for American Progress
Paul Polman, Co-founder and Chair, IMAGINE
Mary Robinson, Chair, The Elders
Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor, Columbia University; President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Enric Sala, Founder, Pristine Seas; Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of Singapore
Danny Sriskandarajah, CEO of Oxfam GB
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