Notable speakers at the Council have included Eleanor Roosevelt,[REF] Margaret Thatcher,[REF] Mikhail Gorbachev,[REF] Viktor Yushchenko,[REF] Tony Blair,[REF] Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,[REF] King Abdullah II,[REF] Jon Stewart, Ben Bernanke,[REF] Tim Geithner,[REF] Robert Gates,[REF] and Hillary Clinton [REF].
In May 2015, the Council partnered with the Financial Times to host the Chicago Forum on Global Cities, a three-day international event exploring how global cities can address issues like education, inequality, security, and climate change [REF].