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The Sixth
Annual
Louise
Blouin
Foundation
Awards
Ceremony and
Gala
Blouin
Creative
Leadership
Summit
September
23, 2010
Photos by:
GMK/Black
Tie
International
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H.E. Mikheil
Saakashvili,
President of
Georgia,
Louise Blouin |
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Dr. Leonard
Zon, Noema
Chaplin,
Yue-Sai Kan |
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Nancy
Silverman,
Georgette
Mosbacher |
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Zecki
Dosssal, Tas
Dossal |
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Kim Heirston-
Adams,
Richard
Adams,
Martina
Schaefer |
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AJ.
Goodman,
Alan
Goodman, Dr.
Howard
Gardner |
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Diane Lewis,
Carole
Perez, Enoc
Perez, Ellen
Donahue |
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Wilson Li,
Sebastien
Besson,
Elena
Ziazanis,
Paul Fish |
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Wendy
Buckley,
Franklin
Getchell |
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Joseph
Wambia,
Andrew
Goldstein |
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Sarah Goulet,
Alexis
Anderson |
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Anton
Werner,
Luiza
Oleszczuk |
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Noema
Chaplin,
Ugoji Eze,
Tevia
D. Clark |
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Larry Cohen,
Nancy Pfund |
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Adam Whitney
Nichols,
Lauren
Palmor |
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Craig
Newmark (Craiglist
Founder),
Gerard Mc
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The Louise
Blouin
Foundation
Award honors
individuals
who have
made a
positive
impact on a
global
scale. The
sixth annual
Awards were
presented at
the Blouin
Creative
Leadership
Summit Gala
Dinner &
Awards
Ceremony on
September
23, 2010 in
New York
City.
The
achievements
of each
honoree
extend
beyond the
confines of
his or her
chosen field
and affect a
truly global
audience.
Some of the
questions
and problems
honorees
have sought
to resolve
are
scientific
or artistic,
some are
economic or
political,
but all are
relevant to
the global
community
and all are
consummate
examples of
creativity
in
thought and action.
The
Foundation
seeks
recipients
who have
chosen
highly
individual
paths in
pursuing
ambitious
goals. The
Award
represents
our esteem
for the
recipients’
achievements
as well as
our shared
belief in
the value of
finding
creative
solutions to
improve
economic and
social
conditions.
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Mission
Statement
The annual
Blouin
Creative
Leadership
Summit
brings
together 120
leading
figures in
the areas of
science,
technology,
culture,
business,
and
politics.
Over three
days,
delegates
discuss the
critical
challenges
and
opportunities
presented by
globalization
at the local
and global
levels. The
Summit is a
think-tank
forum
organized by
the
Louise Blouin Foundation in collaboration with
the United
Nations
Office for
Partnerships.
The open,
multidisciplinary
exchange
generated by
the Summit
allows heads
of state,
business
leaders and
scholars to
develop new
solutions to
the
challenges
posed by
poverty,
conflict,
and economic
instability.
The Summit’s
proceedings
are
broadcast
worldwide on
the
Internet.
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THE
LOUISE
BLOUIN
FOUNDATION
HOSTS
THE 2010
BLOUIN
CREATIVE
LEADERSHIP
SUMMIT,
AWARDS
CEREMONY AND
GALA
HEADS OF
STATE,
LEADING
CEOS,
ENTREPRENEURS
AND
WORLD-RENOWNED
ARTISTS
GATHER IN
NEW YORK
CITY FROM
SEPTEMBER
22-23
The Louise
Blouin
Foundation hosted
the fifth
annual Blouin
Creative
Leadership
Summit (BCLS),
which was
concluded by
the sixth
annual
Blouin
Creative
Leadership
Awards
Ceremony and
Gala.
During the
summit, over
100
international
heads of
state,
global CEOs,
entrepreneurs,
leading
scholars,
acclaimed
artists,
celebrities
and
influential
thought-leaders
assembled
in New
York City to
address the
most
critical
issues of
the 21st
century
surrounding
economic
recovery,
global
governance,
environmental
reform,
foreign
policy,
education,
health,
poverty and
development
and
technology,
and their
impacting
consequences
beyond
borders.
The gala
honored
leaders in
politics,
science,
business and
the arts who
have made
extraordinary
contributions
on a global
level. This
year's award
recipients
were
Philippe de
Montebello
former
Director of
the
Metropolitan
Museum of
Art;
Yue-Sai Kan,
Honorary
Chairman of
L’Oréal;
Alex Katz,
artist;
and
Nicholas
Negroponte,
Founder of
One
Laptop per
Child.
The BCLS is
a forum in
partnership
with the United
Nations
Office of
Partnerships that
engages in
dialogue to
successfully
confront the
challenges
and
opportunities
brought
about by
globalization
over the
coming
decade,
placing
emphasis on
mapping
global
opportunities
as well as
crises areas
in order to
identify and
develop
long-term
strategies
and
solutions.
At the core
of the BCLS
is an
emphasis on
cultural
dialogue, a
key element
within
globalization,
as well as
the
foregrounding
of
multi-disciplinary
thinking as
a way to
meet
contemporary
and future
global
challenges.
“It is
essential
that our
world
leaders
engage
around the
urgent
issues
facing us –
our
collective
future; our
opportunities
and
challenges,
and how to
develop
solutions
that will
ensure a
safer,
healthier
and more
prosperous
planet,”
says
Louise
Blouin,
Chairman and
CEO of the
Louise
Blouin
Foundation
and founder
of the BLCS.
“The BCLS is
about
acclaimed
global
leaders
discussing,
debating and
taking
action on
issues that
effect us
all, across
borders and
cultures.”
Participants
and guests
included
H.E. Jan
Peter
Balkenende,
Prime
Minister of
the
Netherlands;
H.E.
Sükhbaataryn
Batbold,
Prime
Minister of
Mongolia; H.E.
Stephenson
King,
Prime
Minister
Saint Lucia; H.E.
Porfirio
Lobo Sosa,
President of
Honduras; H.E.
Urmas Paet,
Minister of
Foreign
Affairs,
Republic of
Estonia; H.E.
Kamla
Persad-Bissessar,
Prime
Minister
Republic of
Trinidad and
Tobago; H.E.
Hifikepunye
Pohamba,
President of
Republic
of Namibia;
and H.E.
Mikheil
Saakashvili,
President of
Georgia;Joseph
Aiello,
Jihad Al-Wazir,
David
Andelman,
Mark
Angelson,
Phillip
Anzalone,
Louise
Arbour, Doug
Arent,
Francesco
Bandarin,
Scott
Barrett,
Robert
Beauregard,
Stanley
Bergman,
Matthew
Bishop,
David Bloom,
Louise
Blouin, Eric
Bonabeau,
Richard
Bulliet,
Charles
Calomiris,
John Henry
Clippinger,
Niels
Christiansen,
Sean Cleary,
Geena Davis,
Sophie
Delaunay,
Lisa
Dennison,
Amir Dossal,
Kathleen
Doyle,
Nathan
Eagle, John
Felmy, Gary
Flake, Majid
Fotuhi,
Jeffrey
Friedberg,
Allan
Goodman,
Howard
Gardner,
Peter Hébert,
Kim Heirston,
Jack Hidary,
Arianna
Huffington,
Badr Jafar,
Kevin
Jenkins,
Kate
Johnson,
Alex Katz,
Yue-Sai Kan,
Riz Khan,
Stephen
Kosslyn,
Vladimir
Kvint, Jack
Leslie,
David Lewis,
Diane Lewis,
Thomas Malone,
Josh
Margolis,
Donald
Marron,
Strive
Masiyiwa,
Bruce Mau,
Fred Mednick,
Zarin Mehta,
Tony Miller,
H.E. Amre
Moussa,
Dambisa Moyo,
Craig
Newmark,
Michael
Oreskes,
Enoc Perez,
Nancy Pfund,
Carl Pope,
Vladimir
Pozner, Lila
Hanitra
Ratsifandrihamanana,
Richard
Robb, Bill
Roedy,
Michael
Royce,
Michael
Schlesinger,
Lieutenant
General
Robert
Schmidle,
Marcelo
Suárez-Orozco,
Paul
Sullivan,
Richard
Tuttle,
Martin
Varsavsky,
Ali Velshi,
Juan Ignacio
Vidarte,
Monique
Villa, Jimmy
Wales,
Joseph
Wambia, Paul
Wilmott,
Eckart
Woertz, Josh
Wolfe,
Stephen
Wolfram,
Kandeh
Yumkella
and
Leonard Zon.
For a full
list of
participants
and panel
topics
please
visit:
www.creativeleadershipsummit.org
Past
recipients
of the
Blouin
Creative
Leadership
Award have
included
President
Bill
Clinton,
artist Jeff
Koons, Dr.
Craig
Barrett,
Chairman of
the Board of
Intel
Corporation;
Republic of
Malawi
President
Bingu Wa
Mutharika;
Rockefeller
University
President,
Nobel
Laureate Sir
Paul Nurse and
Theatre
and Opera
Director Peter
Sellars.
An online
auction will
benefit ART+HOPE,
a Louise
Blouin
Foundation
initiative
that
supports
artists who
promote the
use of art
and culture
as powerful
tools for
expression
to compel
social
change. To
view the
full list of
auction
offerings or
to bid on an
item,
visit:
www.charityfolks.com/art+hope
About
Louise
Blouin
Foundation
The Louise
Blouin
Foundation,
founded in
2004 by
Louise
Blouin, is
an
international
non-profit
organization
that seeks
to address
the
challenges
and
opportunities
of
globalization
by using
cultural
dialogue and
diplomacy as
a key method
for dialogue
and
exchange.
This
platform
focuses on
such diverse
areas as
international
trade,
foreign
policy,
education
and the
environment
through the
utilizing a
multidisciplinary
approach.
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