Al Gore
He was the 45th Vice President of the United States of America, he is a Novel Peace laureate and won an Academy Award (oscar) for his documentary "An Inconcenient Truth".
Al Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. During the Administration, Al Gore was a central member of President Clinton's economic team. He served as President of the Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council, and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives.
Today, Al Gore is Chairman of Current TV, an Emmy award-winning, independently owned cable television nonfiction network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. He also serves as Chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. Al Gore is a member of the board of directors of Apple and a Senior Advisor to Google. Vice President Gore also chairs the The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit organization designed to help solve the climate crisis. He is the Co-Winner, with the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Price for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.“
As Vice President of the United States, Al Gore led a wide range of administrative initiatives, including policy to benefit the environment and international advancements in technology. Acclaimed for his environmental achievements, his pioneering efforts were outlined in the bestselling Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, which inspired an Oscar-winning documentary and bestselling book, An Inconvenient Truth, that ultimately brings home Vice President Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue but rather, as the moral challenge facing our global civilization. His newest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that, together, will help solve the climate crisis. In his bestselling book Assault on Reason, Vice President Gore asserts focused discourse is vital to ensure a well-informed citizenry in the face of long-term challenges, from the climate crisis to the war in Iraq to health and social welfare.
