Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation
Investment Management. He is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple, Inc.'s board of directors.
Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of The Climate Reality
Project, a non-profit devoted to solving the climate crisis.
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 forty-fifth Vice President of the United States on January 20,
1993, and served eight years.
He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An
Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve
the Climate Crisis, and most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global
Change. He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary and is the
co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the
2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "informing the world of the dangers posed by
climate change."