Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Attend The Daily Beast's Women in the World Summit

NEW YORK, March 1, 2010 - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend the March 12th opening
night in New York of a three-day summit, Women in the World: Stories and
Solutions, co-hosted by The Daily Beast, Vital Voices Global Partnership,
Diane von Furstenburg, and the UN Foundation.

Secretary Clinton will introduce an exclusive one-night reading at the
Hudson Theatre of SEVEN, the documentary play created for Vital Voices Global
Partnership to honor the courage of brave female activists from Afghanistan,
Cambodia, Guatemala, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, and Russia.

Seven acclaimed actors have volunteered their time to dramatize the
issues highlighted in the play: Meryl Streep heads the line-up, which
includes Marcia Gay Harden, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stephanie Okereke, Archie
Panjabi, Julyana Soelistyo and Lauren Velez. The reading is directed by
celebrated Broadway director Julie Taymor in an evening made possible by HP.

SEVEN is a collaboration by playwrights Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux,
Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith, and Susan
Yankowitz.

Said Daily Beast Founder Tina Brown; "We are all delighted that Secretary
Clinton, who has done so much throughout her career to further the goals and
aspirations of women around the world, will be joining this remarkable
gathering of inspirational voices."

Said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "The play powerfully portrays
the transformative way that seven courageous women have changed their
societies for the better - from peace-building, to fighting corruption to
combating violence against women."

Secretary Clinton led the Vital Voices initiative when it was a program
of the State Department and she was First Lady. Secretary Clinton personally
knows and admires the women depicted in the play.

Alyse Nelson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vital Voices
Global Partnership said; "The most powerful thing about SEVEN is that it gets
to the heart of some of the most critical issues facing our world today. It
reminds us of the power of the human spirit to rise up when faced with
adversity and as we rise…it reminds us that we have a responsibility to
bring others along with us."

Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, will
speak on the "Unfinished Beijing Agenda" at the Summit's Friday night dinner
preceding the performance of SEVEN. Verveer was Secretary Clinton's
chief-of-staff when the then-First Lady delivered the news-making keynote
address at the Beijing Women's Conference in 1995.

The three-day Women in the World summit will bring together an
extraordinary group of 300 global leaders from government, media, social
activism, business, and the arts. Topics will include human trafficking and
modern slavery, the rise of rape as a tool of war, the ways new technologies
can help empower women financially, and how traditions can be toppled in
cultures that devalue women.

Summit participants include Valerie Jarrett, Her Majesty Queen Rania of
Jordan, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Fatima Bhutto,
Cherie Blair, Luis CdeBaca, Thomas L. Friedman, Edna Adan Ismail, Christine
Lagarde, Molly Melching, Somaly Mam, Frances Townsend, and Zainab Salbi.
Moderators include Christiane Amanpour, Mika Brzezinski, Katie Couric and
Barbara Walters.

In addition to Technology Innovation Partner HP, Women in the World:
Stories & Solutions is supported by ExxonMobil, Bank of America, and Goldman
Sachs' 10,000 Women

Andrew Kirk of The Daily Beast, +1-212-524-8856, or andrew.kirk at thedailybeast.com