Celebrities including Michelle Yeoh, Hugh Jackman, Danai Gurira and Dakota Johnson will take part in May's event to find viable solutions to tackle food insecurity and climate change.
Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg are among a diverse group of political, business and philanthropic leaders. Global Citizen will be held in New York on May 1st and 2nd.
Global Citizen NOW brings together influential decision-makers and pop culture figures to create a “global agenda for urgent action.”
Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, said the summit would call for support for viable solutions to address public health challenges associated with food insecurity, climate change and extreme poverty. Stated.
“We are focused on advancing ideas that drive urgent action to end extreme poverty,” Evans said, adding that the world is at a crossroads on many issues. .
Actors Hugh Jackman, Danai Gurira, and Dakota Johnson, along with representatives from Cisco, Citi, Delta, and PayPal, were joined by Rockefeller Foundation Chairman Rajiv Shah, Bezos Earth Fund CEO Andrew Steer, and United Nations High School for Human Rights. He will participate in the event together with Commissioner Volker Türk and others.
“My mission is to amplify underrepresented voices,” Gurira, star of The Walking Dead and Black Panther series, said in a statement, adding, “My mission is to amplify underrepresented voices. “We want to address serious inequalities,” he added.
Mr Evans said the third edition of Global Citizen NOW will focus on overcoming preventable diseases such as malaria, polio and HPV.
Organizers will also announce new initiatives to protect the Amazon rainforest and increase investment in Africa through the World Bank.
Global Citizen also hopes the New York Summit will build on the momentum created among Gen Z and Millennial leaders at the first international conference held in Australia earlier this month.
“We hope to inspire the next generation of advocates through our Global Citizenship Awards, which spotlight and financially support five young people who are making extraordinary efforts to change the world. I'm thinking about it,” Evans said.