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JB Pritzker
Governor of Illinois
J.B. Pritzker is the governor of Illinois, elected to his second term in 2022. In this role, he proposed and signed a comprehensive clean energy bill, making Illinois a national leader on climate action and the first state in the Midwest to pass a law phasing out fossil fuels. Prior to this, Pritzker founded 1871, a nonprofit small-business incubator in Chicago. Previously, he co-founded Pritzker Group Private Capital and served as chairman of the ChicagoNEXT council on innovation and technology.
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2024 Climate
Evening Plenary
Bezos Earth Fund's Lauren Sánchez shares how to innovate out of big problems, lllinois Governor JB Pritzker talks with water experts, and a biotech entrepreneur shares a plan...
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