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R. E. (Ted) Turner
Ted Turner is Co-Chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Mr. Turner founded NTI when he realized that several years after the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia still had thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, that global nuclear threats were in some ways growing worse and that governments were not moving quickly enough to address these threats.
Mr. Turner is the founder of CNN - the world's first live, in-depth, round-the-clock news television network. Whether in billboard advertisement, cable television, sailing, environmental initiatives or philanthropy, Mr. Turner's vision and determination have resulted in bold, big achievements.
Mr. Turner is the founder of the United Nations Foundation, which manages his historic $1 billion gift to support the United Nations' work in addressing the world’s most pressing problems; Chairman of the Turner Foundation, his family’s private grant-making organization that focuses on population and the environment; and a partner in the successful Ted’s Montana Grill restaurant chain, which operates more than 40 locations nationwide. He is also Chairman of Turner Enterprises, Inc., which manages private landholdings in an economically sustainable and ecologically sensitive manner, while promoting the conservation of native species.
Mr. Turner is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, industry awards and civic honors, including being named Time magazine’s 1991 Man of the Year and Broadcasting and Cable Magazine’s Man of the Century in 1999.
