In President’s Room at Rockefeller University, Billionaires meet in New York to solve growing social problems. The event was organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Described as the Good Club by one insider, attendees included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. Other invitees included Eli and Edythe Broad, whose current fortune is estimated at $5.2B by Forbes Magazine; John Morgridge, former CEO of Cisco and his wife Tashia; Peter Peterson, senior chairman of the Blackstone Group; Julian Robertson, founder of Tiger Management Corp.; and Patty Stonesifer, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/billionaire-club-in-bid-to-curb-overpopulation-d2fl22qhl02.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/31/new-york-billionaire-philanthropists.
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http://www.irishcentral.com/news/what-buffett-and-gates-discussed-at-secret-conference-45916327-237643701.html.
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