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ECNY Award Dinner Honoring Bill Gates

ECNY: LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE AWARD DINNER

Bill Gates will be recognized as the recipient of the 2023 Peter G. Peterson Leadership Excellence Award at a special Year End dinner.

The Award for Leadership Excellence was originally inaugurated in 2011 through a generous personal gift from the late Peter G. Peterson, former Chair and long-time Member of the Economic Club of New York. In 2021, the award was re-named to pay homage to its creator.

Past honorees include George P. Shultz, Paul Volcker, Alice Rivlin, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Roger W. Ferguson and Stanley Fischer.

Award recipient Bill Gates will address members at the event with moderator Marie-Josée Kravis.

CO-CHAIR OF THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION, BILL GATES & FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE PAULSON INSTITUTE, HANK PAULSON

CNBC: Bill Gates Is Reaching for the High-Hanging Fruit on Climate

Gates elaborated on that point on April 1 in a video talk hosted by the Economic Club of New York. “To get to zero [emissions], you can’t leave the hard categories alone,” the co-founder of Microsoft Corp., now a full-time philanthropist, told the online audience. (He appeared with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.) “We’ve put all the effort into the easy categories of cars and power generation,” Gates said. “In the hard categories, the work has barely, barely begun. You don’t get success unless you cover them all.”

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Co-Chair of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates & Founder and Chairman of the Paulson Institute, Hank Paulson

ECNY: Hosting Video Webinar

The Economic Club of New York is honored to welcome Bill Gates and Hank Paulson. In a conversation with Co-Host of CNBC's Squawk Box Becky Quick - exploring the economic steps and evolving technologies the private sector can leverage to mitigate the challenges of climate change.