Ted Turner Looks at the World

Ted Turner Looks at the World

The World Affairs Council of Connecticut hosts a conversation with international media mogul and world ambassador Ted Turner. Since the early 1970s, Turner has stepped into the international spotlight with one accomplishment after another.

He now dedicates his time and resources to making the world a better, safer place for future generations through the Turner Foundation, the United Nations Foundation, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Captain Planet Foundation, and the Turner Endangered Species Fund.

Ned Lamont - Edward "Ned" Lamont was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in the Connecticut United States Senate election held on on November 7, 2006. He faced incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman, who ran as the nominee of the Connecticut for Lieberman party, as well as Republican nominee Alan Schlesinger in a three-way general election. He currently serves as a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics, and is an adjunct faculty member of Central Connecticut State University.

Ted Turner - In 1980 Ted Turner inaugurated CNN, the world's first, live, round-the-clock news television network. Over the decades Mr. Turner and TBS acquisitions have been behind a number of services and networks, including Headline News, CNN International, CNNRadio, TNT, the Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, Ted Turner Pictures, and Ted Turner Documentaries. Mr. Turner has made his mark as one of the most influential philanthropists in the US. In 1997 he announced a historic pledge of up to $1 billion to the United Nations Foundation. He currently serves as Chairman. He founded and Chairs the Turner Foundation, and Co-Chairs the Nuclear Threat Initiative with Senator Sam Nunn. Mr. Turner directs the majority of his philanthropic activity through these three organizations, and has made grants to nearly every societal sector. He takes special care to develop and preserve the communities and environments around turner properties, conducting such work through the Turner Endangered Species Fund and the Turner Community Youth Development Initiative.