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al gore - May 2007  |  desmond tutu

Former U.S. Vice-President, Al Gore, is cofounder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing.

Al Gore is also cofounder and Chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer created content and citizen journalism. A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Gore is also Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Mr. Gore is the author of An Inconvenient Truth, the bestselling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming, and the subject of the Oscar-winning movie of the same title.

Since his earliest days in the U.S. Congress 30 years ago, Al Gore has been the leading advocate for confronting the threat of global warming. He led the Clinton-Gore Administration's efforts to protect the environment in a way that also strengthens the economy.

Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948, the son of former U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Sr. and Pauline Gore. Raised in Carthage, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., he received a degree in government with honours from Harvard University in 1969. After graduation, he volunteered for enlistment in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War. Upon returning from Vietnam, Al Gore became an investigative reporter with the Tennessean in Nashville, where he also attended Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School and then Law School.