BIO Announces Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to Provide Keynote at 2010 BIO International Convention

Presidents Clinton and Bush, who served in the White House for 16 years,
will discuss a wide variety of issues relating to both domestic and
foreign policy. Jim Greenwood, BIO's President and CEO, will moderate
the discussion between the two former Presidents on Tuesday, May 4th
at 11:30 a.m.

"We are honored to have the rare opportunity to host two such
influential and experienced global thought leaders as they share the
same stage at the same time as headliners at our Convention," said BIO
President & CEO James Greenwood. "We look forward to a thoughtful and
informative discussion between Presidents Bush and Clinton as they
discuss top issues and explore how biotechnology can create a better
tomorrow by healing, fueling and feeding the world. I'm sure this
keynote discussion will inspire and engage the global industry leaders
in attendance."

Elected U.S. President in 1992, and again in 1996, President Clinton was
the first Democratic president to be awarded a second term in six
decades. President Clinton's accomplishments include increasing
investment in education, providing tax relief for working families,
helping millions of Americans move from welfare to work, expanding
access to technology, encouraging investment in underserved communities,
protecting the environment, countering the threat of terrorism and
promoting peace and strengthening democracy around the world. His
Administration's economic policies fostered the largest peacetime
economic expansion in history. President Clinton previously served as
the Governor of Arkansas, chairman of the National Governors'
Association and Attorney General of Arkansas.

After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William
J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of
people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the
challenges of global interdependence. Today the Foundation has more than
1,400 staff and volunteers around the world working to improve lives
through several initiatives, including the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative
which is helping 2 million people living with HIV/AIDS access lifesaving
drugs. Other initiatives -- including the Clinton Climate Initiative,
the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative, and the Clinton Giustra
Sustainable Growth Initiative -- are applying a business-oriented
approach worldwide to fight climate change and develop sustainable
economic growth in Africa and Latin America. As a project of the
Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative brings together global leaders
to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most
pressing issues. In the U.S., the Foundation is working to combat the
alarming rise in childhood obesity, and is helping individuals and
families succeed and small businesses grow.

In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton has joined with
President George H.W. Bush three times -- after the 2004 tsunami in South
Asia, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Ike in 2008 -- to help
raise money for recovery efforts. He also served as the U.N. Envoy for
Tsunami Recovery, and was recently named U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti to
assist its people and government as they "build back better" from recent
storm damages and implement their economic vision for the future.

George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States,
serving from 2001 to 2009. Prior to his election, he served for six
years as the Governor of Texas. As Governor, George W. Bush successfully
reformed the state's education, juvenile justice, welfare, and tort
laws. In 1998, he became the first Governor elected to back-to-back
four-year terms in the history of Texas with a record 68 percent of the
vote.

During his time as President, George W. Bush worked to extend freedom,
opportunity, and security at home and abroad. His first initiative as
President was the No Child Left Behind Act, a bipartisan measure that
has led to demonstrable gains in educational achievement, especially
among minority students. Faced with a recession when he took office,
President Bush cut taxes for every federal income taxpayer, triggering
52 months of uninterrupted job growth, the longest such streak in
American history. President Bush also modernized Medicare by adding a
prescription drug benefit, a reform providing access to critical
medicines for 40 million seniors and other beneficiaries.

Following the attacks of September 11th, 2001, President Bush
implemented a comprehensive strategy to combat terrorism, including the
largest reorganization of the federal government since World War II.
President Bush rallied the world in the defense of freedom and led a
global coalition in the liberation of more than 50 million people from
tyranny. In his more than seven years in office after September 11th,
2001, the United States was not attacked again.

Since leaving office, President Bush has focused on launching the George
W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. As part of
that Center, President Bush recently announced the George W. Bush
Institute to advance the principles that guided him during his time in
public service. The four initial major areas of focus for Institute
programming will be education, global health, human freedom, and
economic growth.

Aside from keynote sessions, presentations and breakout sessions at the
2010 BIO International Convention will focus on research and
development, partnership opportunities, and new business models required
to meet global health challenges.

The 2010 BIO International Convention is expected to draw between 15,000
and 17,000 industry leaders from 48 states and 60 countries. This year,
the Convention program will feature more than 125 sessions in 17 tracks.
New tracks for 2010 include Delivery and Manufacturing of Biologics,
Global Drug Development and Marketing, Innovations in Vaccines, and
MarketPlace Watch. In addition, this year's BIO Exhibition will cover an
estimated 200,000 net sq. ft. and host more than 1,800 exhibitors.
Product Focus Zones within the BIO Exhibition will include BioProcess,
Business Services, Clinical Trials, Contracts, Discovery and the BioPark.

The BIO International Convention helps to support BIO programs and
initiatives. BIO works throughout the year to create a policy
environment that enables the industry to continue to fulfill its vision
of bettering the world through biotechnology innovation. For more
information on the global event for biotechnology, including program and
housing information, please visit http://convention.bio.org.

About BIO

BIO represents more than 1,200 biotechnology companies, academic
institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations
across the United States and in more than 30 other nations. BIO members
are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare,
agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products. BIO
also produces the BIO International Convention, the world's largest
gathering of the biotechnology industry, along with industry-leading
investor and partnering meetings held around the world.

Upcoming BIO Events

BIO Asia Partnering Conference January 25-26 Tokyo, Japan

BIO CEO & Investor Conference February 8-9, 2010 New York,
NY

SOURCE: Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

BIO 
Tracy Krughoff, 202-312-9274 
tkrughoff@bio.org

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