Among those in attendance were Dara Khosrowshahi, the new chief executive of Uber; Richard Branson of the Virgin Group; and Arianna Huffington. Such public-private partnerships were the bread and butter of the Clinton Global Initiative, which ran for more than a decade. Travis Kalanick, the recently departed chief executive of Uber, roamed the halls. “The Clinton Global Initiative caused business to think about New York this week as a destination,” said Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation. On Thursday, his charity for refugees, the Tent Foundation, was hosting an event announcing new partnerships and featuring the Unilever chief executive, Paul Polman, and Airbnb’s co-founder, Joe Gebbia.

Source: New York Times September 21, 2017 19:30 UTC