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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