CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri met on Thursday, October 28, with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and described to him the World Jewellery’s Confederation active commitment to sustainable development projects in those areas of the world in which the greater jewellery sector is active. The meeting took place in Milan at a two-day gathering organised by the World Business Forum. President Clinton had delivered the keynote address and the focus of his presentation was good global citizenship. Dr. Cavalieri was attending the event as an official guest of the organisers. “During my discussion with President Clinton, I described the evolution of CIBJO’s strategy for proactive Corporate Social Responsibility, particularly from our organisation’s acceptance into the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations in 2006, and our commitment on behalf the worldwide jewellery industry to the fulfillment of UN’s Millennium Development Goals,” said CIBJO President Dr. Cavalieri after the meeting.
“In his speech to the World Business Forum, President Clinton had emphasised that worldwide inequality is a threat to all of our futures, and had stressed that we have to focus on making immediate actionable impact now. I applauded him for his sentiments and said that is exactly what we are doing in CIBJO.” Dr. Cavalieri said that he had briefly outlined the programme being planned for the World Jewellery Confederation Education Foundation (WJCEF), which is a body that was created by CIBJO in 2008 with support of the United Nations, with the express goal of advancing knowledge in the jewellery community about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) principles and practices. “President Clinton was most interested in what we are doing and expressed his support,” Dr. Cavalieri added.
