Club of Rome

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The Club of Rome

Founded	1968 by Aurelio Peccei and Alexander King Co-Presidents: Sandrine Dixson-Declève and Paul Shrivastava
Type	Non-profit NGO
Location	Winterthur, Canton Zurich, Switzerland
Fields	Global warming, Well-being, Humanitarian challenges
Website	ClubOfRome.org

The Club of Rome is a nonprofit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing global issues. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. It consists^{[clarification needed]} of one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe.^[1] It stimulated considerable public attention in 1972 with the first report to the Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth. Since 1 July 2008, the organization has been based in Winterthur, Switzerland.^{[citation needed]}