Al Gore is the former Vice President of the United States and the co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a partnership that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit focused on solutions to the climate crisis.

He is also co-founder and chairman of Current TV, an Emmy Award-winning, independent cable and satellite television news and information network based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. In addition, Gore is a senior partner with the venture capital rm Kleiner Perkins Caueld & Byers, a member of the board of directors of Apple and senior adviser to Google.

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.

During the Administration, Gore was a central member of President Clintons 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.

He is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers An Inconvenient Truth and The Assault on Reason, and the best-sellers Earth in the Balance, Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change and most recently, The New York Times best-seller An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.

He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary,An Inconvenient Truth. Gore 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.

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