Albert Gore Jr.

Albert Gore Jr. General Information

Biography

Mr. Albert Gore serves as Chairman at Generation Investment Management. He serves as Advisor at Kleiner Perkins. He served as Board Member at Apple. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as Senior Partner at Kleiner Perkins. He also serves as Senior Advisor at Google. He is the former Vice President of the United States. He also served as a Chairman and Co-Founder of Current TV, an Emmy award-winning, independently owned cable and satellite television nonfiction network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. He is a Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and chairs the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit organization designed to help solve the climate crisis. Al 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, he was a central member of President Clinton's economic team. He served as President of the Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council, and the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth and is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. He is the co-winner, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.