The Keynote Address at ISSA/INTERCLEAN^® North America 2010 will be given by Tony Blair at 8:30 a.m., November 11, at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL, USA. Access to this address is included with the standard trade show registration.

 

Check back in Fall 2010 when ISSA will ask you to submit questions to help shape Blair's address.

 

Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for nearly a decade—from May 1997 to June 2007. He was also the leader of Britain's Labour Party (1994 to 2007) and the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield, England (1983 to 2007).

 

During his 10 years as Prime Minister, Blair transformed Britain's public services through a program of investment and reform in schools and hospitals, resulting in more children achieving better school results and more people receiving faster access to health care, with improved survival rates for cancer and coronary heart disease.

 

Blair has always been a strong advocate of a values-based, activist, and multilateralist foreign policy—an agenda that combined tackling terrorism and intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone, with action on issues like climate change, global poverty, Africa, and the Middle East peace process. Blair is also widely credited for his contribution toward assisting the Northern Ireland peace process by helping jointly to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement and deliver a power-sharing government.

 

Blair continues to be active in public life, including his work for the United States, United Nations, Russia, and the European Union as a Quartet Representative, helping Palestinians prepare for statehood as part of the international community’s peace efforts.

 

Blair also has launched the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to promote respect and understanding of and between the world’s major religions and to make the case for faith as a force for good in the modern world. The Foundation is mobilizing faith communities to work together in pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals to tackle global poverty and conflict. Part of his efforts include teaching a course at Yale University.

 

In addition, Blair is an advocate on issues such as Africa and climate change. Blair is a member of the Africa Progress Panel, which was established following the Gleneagles G8 to keep world leaders' attention on Africa. Blair also is working on governance projects in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

 

On climate change, Blair published the first report from his Breaking the Climate Deadlock initiative in June 2008, which set out the framework for a new global deal for a low carbon future.

 

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