Vice President Gore is co-founder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing.

He is also co-founder and Chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Gore is also Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Vice President Gore is the author of An Inconvenient Truth, a best-selling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming, and the subject of the movie of the same title, which has already become one of the top documentary films in history. In 2007, An Inconvenient Truth was awarded two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song.

Since his earliest days in the U. S. Congress 30 years ago, Al Gore has been the leading advocate for confronting the threat of global warming. His pioneering efforts were outlined in his best-selling book Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). He led the Clinton-Gore Administration's efforts to protect the environment in a way that also strengthens the economy.

Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948, the son of former U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Sr. and Pauline Gore. Raised in Carthage, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., he received a degree in government with honors from Harvard University in 1969. After graduation, he volunteered for enlistment in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War. Upon returning from Vietnam, Al Gore became an investigative reporter with the Tennessean in Nashville, where he also attended Vanderbilt University's Divinity School and then Law School.

Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, reside in Nashville, Tennessee. They have four children- Karenna, Kristin, Sarah, and Albert III; and three grandchildren: Wyatt Gore Schiff, Anna Hunger Schiff, and Oscar Aitcheson Schiff.

Mr Shanmugam has been described as one of the “twin titans” of litigation in Singapore, “regarded as a first-rate litigator”, “respected for [his] quiet, efficient and persuasive style”, “renowned”, “regularly singled out for praise” and “star litigator” (The Asia Pacific Legal 500, 2001 - 2007); “one of the finest all-round legal talents in the country”, the “complete lawyer”, and “formidably logical and aggressive” (Who’s Who Legal, Singapore, 2008). 

In 1998, he was appointed a Senior Counsel of the Supreme Court of Singapore at the age of 38, one of the youngest lawyers to be so appointed.
When he was in private practice, Mr Shanmugam regularly handled trial work in major corporate, commercial and insolvency disputes for private and public listed companies; major international and Singaporean banking and financial institutions; multinational corporations; professional practices; acted for medical practitioners in malpractice suits and inquiries; and acted for lawyers, in disciplinary inquiries as well as in criminal proceedings. 

He had also acted for senior government leaders in Singapore, including the current and previous Prime Ministers of Singapore.  Mr Shanmugam also acted for the Chief Justice of Singapore, in 2005.  He has acted for both local as well as international media, including the International Herald Tribune (“IHT”), in libel matters as well as in contempt proceedings.   

More than 100 of the cases handled by Mr Shanmugam have been reported in the Law Reports. 

Mr Shanmugam became a Member of Parliament (MP) in September 1988 when he was elected MP for Sembawang GRC (Group Representation Constituency). 

In Sembawang GRC, he is an adviser to several grassroots and community organizations in Chong Pang.  He is also an elected member of the Sembawang Town Council and an adviser to the North West Community Development Council. 

Prior to accepting public office, Mr Shanmugam served in various committees and Boards, including the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health; Advisory Board of the NUS Faculty of Law; the Raffles Institution Board of Governors; the Media Development Authority, and Sembawang Corporation Industries Ltd.  Mr Shanmugam was also President of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) from March 2002 to March 2009. 

On 1 May 2008, Mr Shanmugam was appointed Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs.

Chief Justice Steele graduated from the University of Virginia (B.A., Foreign Affairs, 1967) and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 1970; LL.M. 2005). He served on active duty in the U.S. Army and retired as a Colonel in the Delaware Army National Guard. He was a Deputy Attorney General, Senate (Delaware) Attorney and Chairman of the Consumer Affairs Board. Before being appointed to the bench, he was a litigation partner in Prickett, Jones & Elliott of Wilmington and Dover. He also served as outside counsel, Director and Chairman of the Central Delaware Health Care Corporation.

In addition to his judicial activities, Chief Justice Steele has been appointed to the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction by Chief Justice John Roberts. He is an advisor to the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, a member of and judicial liaison to the Negotiated Acquisitions Committee of the Business Law Section, and a member of the Judicial Section. He is also a member of the American Board of Trial Attorneys, the first member of the Delaware Judiciary selected.

As Vice Chancellor and Superior Court Judge, Chief Justice Steele presided over major corporate litigation and LLC and limited partner governance disputes. Some of the most noteworthy trials over which he presided include the Viacom/Universal Studios dispute over ownership of the USA Television Networks; Painewebber v. Centocor, an internal governance dispute in a nationally traded limited partnership; CFLP v. Cantor, et al., a dispute seeking injunctive and contractual remedies between limited partners and a general partner in a closed partnership; and the DuPont v. Admiral environmental insurance coverage litigation. Chief Justice Steele has published over 400 opinions resolving disputes among members of limited liability companies and limited partnerships, and between shareholders and management of both publicly traded and closely held corporations.

Chief Justice Steele speaks and writes frequently on issues of corporate document interpretation and corporate governance. His thesis for the LL.M. degree, Judicial Scrutiny of Fiduciary Duties in Delaware Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies, focused on the application of common law fiduciary duties within the contractual framework of alternative business organizations. It was published in the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (32 Del. J. Corp. L. 1 (2007)). The November 2005 issue of The Business Lawyer included an article he co-authored with Sean J. Griffith entitled On Corporate Law Federalism: Threatening the Thaumatrope (61 Bus. Law. 1 (2005)). He co-authored an article with J.W. Verret entitled Delaware’s Guidance: Ensuring Equity for the Modern Witenagemot to be published in the Fall 2007 issue of the Virginia Law & Business Review (2 Va. L. & Bus. Rev. 188 (2007)). That article formed the basis for a keynote speech to the Business Section at the 2007 ABA Annual Meeting.

In September 2007, Directorship Magazine ranked Chief Justice Steele as one of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance in the United States. In December 2007, Ethisphere Magazine ranked Chief Justice Steele second in its list of “the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics for 2007.”  Lawdragon Magazine has consistently placed Chief Justice Steele among its annual Lawdragon 500 “Leading Lawyers in America” and “Top Judges in America.”

Justice Shah has delivered various landmark judgments relating to human rights, rights of disabled, women, juveniles and environmental issues. In a recent judgment in Naz Foundation v. Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, [(2009) 160 DLT 277]  a penal provision of   Indian Code, criminalizing the private sexual conduct of consenting same sex adults, was held to be discriminatory and violative of right to equality and life as enshrined in Indian Constitution. In another case in Secretary General, Supreme Court of India v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal, emphasizing on accountability and transparency in Judiciary, the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) was held to be a ‘public authority’ under the Right to Information Act and also that the information relating to asset declarations made to the CJI by the Judges of the Supreme Court falls within the purview of the Act.  Justice Shah is responsible for setting up Mediation Centres in Madras High Court and Bombay High Court and also an Arbitration Centre at Delhi High Court.  Justice Shah is an avid reader and he places literature reading high on his preferred hobbies.

Dr Yaacob has been Member of Parliament for the Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency (Kolam Ayer) since January 1997. He was also the first Mayor of Central Singapore District from April to November 2001.

Dr Yaacob served as Parliamentary Secretary and Senior Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology before being appointed as the Minister of State for Community Development and Sports in November 2001. In March 2002, he was appointed as the Ministry’s Acting Minister and Minister-In-Charge of Muslim Affairs. In May 2003, he was promoted to Minister for Community Development and Sports.

In Aug 2004, Dr Yaacob was appointed Minister for the Environment and Water Resources in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Cabinet. Dr Yaacob was re-appointed in the same capacity following the May 2006 elections.  He continues to be in charge of Muslim affairs.

Dr Yaacob serves in the People’s Action Party’s Central Executive Committee as vice-chairman.

Dr Yaacob was born in Singapore on 3 October 1955. He is married and has two children: a son and a daughter. He enjoys reading, listening to music, and meeting people.

She is a director of a number of companies - OCBC Bank, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, Banyan Tree Holdings Ltd, Metro Holdings Ltd and MediaCorp Pte Ltd. She also sits on the board of International Enterprise Singapore.

Mrs Fang is actively involved in social and community work. She is the Chairman of the Charity Council. She is also the President of the Home Nursing Foundation and the Breast Cancer Foundation.

She served a term as a Nominated Member of Parliament, and was conferred the Public Service Medal in 2001.

Mrs Fang qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London in 1973 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

In 2008, he published a textbook, Principles of Economics, (Thomson, USA) with Gregory Mankiw (former Chairman of US Council of Economic Advisors and Harvard Professor). One of his books was selected for inclusion by the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics in 2004 by Professor Mark Blaug (University of London: Series Editor) for works deemed influential on the subject of inquiry. Professor Quah’s work has also been reviewed favourably by prestigious journals such as the Journal of Economic Literature (USA), and the Economic Journal (UK); and cited by Professor Sherwin Rosen (former Editor of the Journal of Political Economy, Professor Reuben Gronau of Chicago University and Professor Robert Ellickson of Yale University). In 2005, Professor Quah was invited to be one of the keynote speakers for the Eminent Environmental Economists Conference held in Korea, organised by UNESCAP and more recently in 2009, he was invited by Stanford University to be a participant in a Dialogue on Climate Change held in Kyoto; and a Discussant Speaker on Climate Change and the Environment by the Asian Economic Policy Review Journal held in Tokyo. He was also invited to speak at a conference on global warming organised by Princeton University and Shanghai Jia Tong University.  Professor Quah had published some first Singapore studies relating to the environment such as the first cost of air pollution study of Singapore; the first study on the transboundary haze problem in Southeast Asia; and the first study on the social cost of smoking. He is an advisor to the government on the environment as well as contributed to cost-benefit studies on key public projects. In 2009 - 2010 , he served as a  Member  for the Singapore Government’s Economic Strategies Sub-Committee on Energy and Environment .  Professor Quah is Editor of the Singapore Economic Review; Co-Editor of International Gambling Studies (edited at Australian National University); past Associate Editor of the Asian Economic Journal (edited at Chinese University of Hong Kong) and on the editorial board of the ASEAN Economic Bulletin (edited at ISEAS), Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Korea Trade; and Open Law Journal (Bentham Science UK). He had served on the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; Council Member of Singapore Institute of International Affairs; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies, and presently President of the Economic Society of Singapore. Professor Quah’s views have appeared very frequently in the popular press and in both local(The Straits Times, TODAY, Singapore Business etc) and foreign media including the British Broadcasting Corporation, Channel News Asia, Radio Denmark, Reuters, and major newspapers in Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and France. Professor Quah obtained his degrees from Simon Fraser University, National University of Singapore, and the University of Victoria, Canada.

From 2002-08, he chaired the National Environment Agency, the country’s major agency for environmental protection. Prior to that, he was a Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament (1997 – 2001) and led public consultations on Singapore in the 21st century, the national concept plan, and the Singapore Green Plan 2012. He has also directed the Singapore Volunteers Overseas, the country’s “peace corps”. In 2006, he received the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat, PBM), a Singaporean National Day award.

He has been a visiting professor to teach at Yale, Harvard Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has spoken or chaired events for international business meetings including the World Economic Forum. He has featured in the international media, including the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia and Financial Times and has a regular column in TODAY newspaper in Singapore. He also has advised multinational corporations on regional business investments and on sustainability and environmental issues.

He was a Fulbright scholar (1993-94) at Harvard Law School, where he won the Laylin prize for the best thesis in international law. In Jan 2000, the World Economic Forum (Davos) named him a “global leader of tomorrow”. In 2002, he was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship in the USA. He is also an award winning writer with five books of stories and poetry.