More than 125 international, government, business and civic leaders – including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev – attended last night’s kickoff for “Global Forum 2000.”
Albright was the featured speaker at the Windows on the World dinner, hosted by Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of the forum’s sponsor, News Corp., which owns The Post.
Among those attending the dinner were former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, “60 Minutes” reporter Mike Wallace, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, baseball great Dave Winfield, Police Commissioner Howard Safir and veteran city official Herman Badillo.
Kissinger will moderate today’s forum, which is expected to attract more than 200 leaders in finance, media, business, law, advertising, technology and nonprofit organizations.
The forum will address two key questions about the role of the United States in the 21st century: “What does the world expect from America?” and “What should America ask of itself?”
The half-day forum, at the Regent Wall Street Hotel, will be shown live and commercial-free from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Fox New Channel.