Former President Bill Clinton will be interviewed by Michael Milken Wednesday in the final session of the Milken Institute’s 27th annual Global Conference in Beverly Hills.
The subject of the 2:30-3:30 p.m. interview will be the theme of the conference at The Beverly Hilton, “Shaping a Shared Future.”
Other subjects of interviews Wednesday include NBA star Chris Paul and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who will be questioned by Karen Ross, the secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Both sessions are scheduled from 11:30-11:50 a.m.
Milken, the one-time junk bond king who is chairman of the Milken Institute, will also moderate a session from 1-2 p.m. titled, “Bold Proposals for Protecting the Free-Enterprise System while Close the Wealth Gap.”
The panelists are former Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin; John Hope Bryant, chairman and CEO of Operation Hope, Inc., the nation’s largest nonprofit provider of financial literacy and economic empowerment services; Brad Gerstner, the founder, chairman and CEO of the Silicon Valley-based technology investment firm Altimeter Capital; and Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor of economics and policy analysis at The New School for Social Research.
Olympic gold medalists Janet Evans and Lindsey Vonn will be among the panelists for the 8:30-9:30 a.m. session, “America250: Reinvigorating the American Dream through Sport, Celebration, and Education,” a look at how the FIFA World Cup and the 250th anniversary of American independence, both in 2026, and the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games “could help shape the future of the nation and the world,” according to conference organizers.
The other panelists are Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, and Rosie Rios, chair of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission which is planning and orchestrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Sportscaster Jim Gray will be the moderator.
The theme of the conference is “a reminder that despite the challenges we face, we are united in our aspirations for a better tomorrow,” Milken Institute CEO Richard Ditizio said.
“If we view these issues as problems needing to be solved, we can together move the innovative ideas and financial capital required to craft solutions. The Global Conference brings people together to do just that.”
The conference began Sunday with seven invitation-only sessions and four welcoming events and will run through Wednesday.
The conference’s public sessions will be streamed at www.globalconference.org. The livestream schedule is available at milkeninstitute.org/events/global-conference-2024/livestream.
The Milken Institute bills itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on accelerating measurable progress on the path to a meaningful life, with a focus on financial, physical, mental and environmental health.