At ULI Spring Meeting, Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Remains Optimistic for New York City and the World
In a general session at the 2024 ULI Spring Meeting, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Ralph Rosenberg, a partner and global head of real estate with KKR. Clinton, who now teaches at Columbia University, focused her remarks on what she said are the three major conflicts affecting the global economy.

Former U.S. Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking with Ralph Rosenberg, partner and global head of real estate at KKR, at the.2024 ULI Spring Meeting.
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In a general session at the 2024 ULI Spring Meeting, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Ralph Rosenberg, a partner and global head of real estate with KKR. Clinton, who now teaches at Columbia University, focused her remarks on what she said are the three major conflicts affecting the global economy.“It’s always difficult when you are in the middle of significant global changes to fully understand them or explain how we got to where we are,” said Clinton, who ran for president in 2016. “Several things happened simultaneously over the last 20-plus years that have had an amplifying effect … starting with 9/11, which many of us in New York lived through and worked with.” Clinton touched on the wars that were fought over the following decade as a result of those a