President Clinton, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Clinton Foundation
42nd President of the United States
William Jefferson Clinton, the first Democratic president in six decades to be elected twice, led the United States to the longest economic expansion in American history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs.
After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation in order to continue working on the causes he cared about. Since its founding, the Foundation has endeavored to help build more resilient communities by developing and implementing programs that improve people’s health, strengthen local economies, and protect the environment.
In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton served as the top United Nations envoy for the Indian Ocean tsunami recovery effort, the UN Special Envoy to Haiti—and has partnered numerous times with Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush to support relief efforts for communities devastated by natural disasters.
President Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He and his wife Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and three grandchildren, Charlotte, Aidan and Jasper. They live in Chappaqua, New York..
About the Stephen W. Bosworth Memorial Lecture in Diplomacy
The Stephen W. Bosworth Memorial Lecture in Diplomacy honors the legacy of one of America’s finest diplomats and educators, Ambassador Steve Bosworth. Sponsored by the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Bosworth Lecture series brings distinguished leaders to Harvard to speak about foreign policy, diplomacy, and peacekeeping – three areas where Ambassador Bosworth focused his diplomatic and academic career.
Ambassador Bosworth believed deeply in investing in the education of the next generation of foreign policy practitioners. He dedicated himself to this pursuit as Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. After stepping down as dean, he became a resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center at HKS where he taught and mentored students.
Ambassador Bosworth left an indelible legacy in U.S. diplomacy. He held significant leadership positions at the U.S. Department of State, including U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, the Philippines, and South Korea; Director of Policy Planning; principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American affairs; and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs. He played a critical role in the Philippines’ transition to democratic rule and in strengthening relations between the United States and South Korea through his role as executive director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization and as U.S. Ambassador to South Korea. Under President Barack Obama, Ambassador Bosworth served in his last official diplomatic role as special envoy on the Korean Peninsula where he was instrumental in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis.
