Michelle Yeoh to affix enterprise and political leaders at World Citizen NOW summit to battle poverty

NEW YORK — Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi, and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg are among the many various group of political, enterprise and philanthropic leaders World Citizen will convene in New York on Could 1 and a couple of, the nonprofit introduced on Thursday.
The World Citizen NOW summit will search assist for workable options to handle problems with meals insecurity, local weather change and public well being related to excessive poverty, mentioned World Citizen CEO Hugh Evans.
“We’re centered on advancing the concepts that may drive pressing motion to finish excessive poverty,” Evans advised The Related Press, including that the world is at a crossroads on quite a few points.
Actors Hugh Jackman, Danai Gurira and Dakota Johnson and representatives from Cisco, Citi, Delta and PayPal will be part of Rockefeller Basis President Rajiv Shah, Bezos Earth Fund CEO Andrew Steer, and Volker Türk, United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, for the occasion.
“I’ve made it my mission to work to amplify underrepresented voices,” Gurira, star of “The Strolling Lifeless” and “Black Panther” franchises, mentioned in an announcement, including that she is raring to “tackle the extreme inequities going through the African continent.”
Evans mentioned the third version of World Citizen NOW will concentrate on defeating preventable ailments, like malaria, polio, and HPV. Organizers additionally plan to announce new initiatives to protect the Amazon Rainforest and improve investments in Africa by the World Financial institution.
World Citizen additionally hopes the New York summit will construct on momentum generated amongst Gen Z and millennial leaders at its first worldwide convention earlier this month in Australia.
“We hope to encourage the following technology of advocates by our World Citizen Prize awards, the place we are going to highlight and financially assist 5 younger individuals making extraordinary efforts to alter the world,” Evans mentioned.
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