kets for investments in Atlanta, attracting 1,100 new businesses and $70 billion in investment, adding 1 million jobs to the region. He developed publicprivate partnerships to leverage public dollars for projects such as the transformation of Zoo Atlanta.
As co-chair of the Atlanta Olympic Committee, Young tapped into his global relationships to lead the successful effort to bring the Centennial Olympic Games to Atlanta in 1996. He oversaw the largest Olympic Games in history – in the number of countries and athletes represented, and the number of spectators it drew. The International Olympic Committee awarded Young the Olympic Order in Gold, the highest honor awarded by the IOC.
Young is a founding principal and cochairman of GoodWorks International. Formed out of his belief that free enterprise and private business can improve living standards and reduce poverty in the developing world, GoodWorks advises Fortune 500 companies on responsible business development in Africa and the Caribbean.
Young has received honorary degrees from more than 60 universities and colleges in the United States and abroad. France has awarded him the Legion d’honneur, the nation’s greatest honor. President William J. Clinton appointed him the founding chair of the Southern African Enterprise Development Fund. He serves on the boards of the Martin Luther King Center for NonViolent Social Change, Barrick Gold Corporation, the United Nations
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Foundation, the Atlanta Falcons, and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
“Andrew Young Presents,” the Emmynominated nationally syndicated video series produced by Young through the Andrew J. Young Foundation, Inc., has been seen in hundreds of markets in the U.S. and around the world through the Armed Services Network. Young has authored two books, A Way Out of No Way and An Easy Burden, Civil Rights and the Transformation of America. Young and his wife, educator and civic leader Carolyn McClain Young, live in Atlanta. He is the father of four and the grandfather of six.
CONGRESSMAN ROBERT C. “BOBBY” SCOTT Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott began serving his ninth term as a Member of Congress on January 6, 2009. Prior to serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Scott served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1978 to 1983 and in the Senate of Virginia from 1983 to 1993.
During his 15-year tenure in the Virginia General Assembly, Rep. Scott successfully sponsored laws that are critical to Virginians in healthcare, education, employment, economic development, crime prevention, social services