Geopolitics
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Geopolitics ⋆
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Bill presents the MTV ‘Free Your Mind’ Award to Mikhail Gorbachev, December 2009
Brainstorming with young people living with HIV in Mexico City at the biannual AIDS conference in 2008.
With President Bill Clinton at the biannual AIDs Conference in Vienna in 2010.
Bill Roedy on Times Square for GAVI
Many know this iconic photo but few know its ties to MTV... In 1996, during the first national Presidential election in Russia, Yeltsin modeled his campaign after the Choose or Lose MTV campaign to encourage youth voting in Russia (also known as Rock the Vote in the USA). Soon after the famous dance, Yeltsin survived a heart attack.
Bill speaking at the UN General Assembly
Bill and Alex with Bill Gates at the GAVI Pledging Conference London 13th June 2011
Gavi/Davos 2013
Bill Roedy with Pentavalent vaccine which has been administered to 400 million children as of 2013 in Dar-es-Salaam, GAVI, Tanzania, November 2013
Little patient waiting for his Pentavalent vaccine, GAVI, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, November 2014
With healthcare worker outside Dar-Es-Salaam for GAVI, November 2013
Bill Roedy climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for HIV/AIDS awareness amfAR, April 2014
With orphaned children during a visit to Mumbai, India in 2004.
Bill and Kofi Annan
Bill on a UNAIDS panel
Bill Roedy, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Chair of USMEP Thomas Pickering at our board meeting 25 October 2016
David Petraeus and Bill Roedy receiving Churchill fellowship. Fulton, Missouri – April 1st, 2017
Bill Roedy & Michael Chertoff, former head of United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Bill with Senator George Mitchell
Dean Reuben Brigety II, of Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University with Bill & Alex Roedy
Bill & David Petraeus - Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011 - November 9, 2012.
Bill & Dalai Lama
Bill meeting with President Landbergis of Lithuania behind the Soviet Union barricades, where Bill presented him with a piece of the Berlin Wall
The Roedy family climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for HIV/AIDS awareness amfAR
Meeting Israeli seeds in Sderot, Israeli/Gaza strip boarder town October 2014
Water recycling initiative in Jordan on the border with Syria, Seeds of Peace Trip to the Middle East, October 2014
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Meeting Deputy Mayor of Sderot, overlooking Gaza [background] Israel/Gaza strip, October 2014
Bill Roedy honoring Stanislaw Petrov, a soldier from the Former Soviet Union, an 'unsung hero' who's decision on September 26th, 1983 not to retaliate against 5 US missiles launched into Russian airspace, potentially saved us all from a nuclear Holocaust. Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2013
Bill presenting the Unsung Hero Award to Stanislav Petrov for the
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, November 2014
Alex Roedy, Mikhail Gorbachev & Bill Roedy, Berlin, November 2014
(L to R) Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Sir Bob Geldof, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Bill Roedy
Bill with President Gorbachev for the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9th 2014
Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Roedy celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, November 2014
The Churchill Fellows who were inducted Saturday, April 1, 2017
Border guards with Bill's MTV umbrella at the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Jim Clancy, CNN International anchor and Bill Roedy at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin for the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9th 2014
UN Week in NYC with President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame & Amir Dossal, September 2014
Bill Roedy and Alex Roedy with President Bill Clinton
Alex Roedy, Desmond Tutu, Goldie Hawn, and Bill Roedy
With Mr MTV Condom (far right) on a boat in Robbin Island
UN week, Sept 2013, Michel Sidibé, Naomi Watts, Bill and Michel's Deputy CEO from Mexico, Luiz Loures
Bill Roedy and John McCain
Bill Roedy and Desmond Tutu
With Bono and Judy McGrath walking across the Pariser Platz to the Brandenburg Gate during the 2009 EMA's in Berlin.
With Bill Flanagan and U2 manager Paul McGuinness in Berlin as the band rehearses in the background.
With Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in his Jerusalem office.
Churchill Fellow David Petraeus
The National Churchill Museum's learning center
Alex and Bill with sister Mallory at the Vietnam Wall memorial after Bill’s speech honoring West Point class of 1970 and those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. October 10th 2015, Washington DC.
Bill and Marc Conneely at the Jewish ghetto memorial in Warsaw, Poland 1992.
Bill at the same memorial in Warsaw for March of the Living, April 2024.
Churchill Memorabilia presented by Judy McGrath, Chairwoman and CEO of MTVN.
