Bill Clinton

===After the 2008 election===
[[File:Prime Minister Modi meets Bill and Hillary Clinton.jpg|thumb|Clinton, his wife [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]], and Indian Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] with Foreign Minister [[Sushma Swaraj]] in New York City on September 29, 2014]]

In 2009, Clinton travelled to North Korea on behalf of two American journalists [[2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea|imprisoned]] there. [[Euna Lee]] and [[Laura Ling]] had been imprisoned for illegally entering the country from China.<ref name=BBCDPRK>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8182716.stm | title=Bill Clinton meets N Korea leader | work=BBC News | date=August 4, 2009 | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> [[Jimmy Carter]] had made a similar visit in 1994.<ref name=BBCDPRK /> After Clinton met with North Korean leader [[Kim Jong-il]], Kim issued a pardon.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8184583.stm | title=North Korea pardons US reporters | work=BBC News | date=August 4, 2009 | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | first1=Mark | last1=Landler | first2=Peter | last2=Baker | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/world/asia/06korea.html | title=Bill Clinton and Journalists in Emotional Return to U.S. | work=The New York Times | date=August 5, 2009 | access-date=August 30, 2011}}</ref>

Since then, Clinton has been assigned many other diplomatic missions. He was named United Nations [[Special Envoy of the Secretary-General|Special Envoy]] to Haiti in 2009 following a series of hurricanes which caused $1&nbsp;billion in damages.<ref name="haiti">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8056762.stm | title=Bill Clinton to be UN Haiti envoy | work=BBC News | date=May 19, 2009 | access-date=September 11, 2011}}</ref> Clinton organized a conference with the Inter-American Development Bank, where a new industrial park was discussed in an effort to "build back better".<ref name="Sontag">{{cite news |author=Deborah Sontag |title=Earthquake Relief Where Haiti Wasn't Broken |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/world/americas/earthquake-relief-where-haiti-wasnt-broken.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/world/americas/earthquake-relief-where-haiti-wasnt-broken.html |archive-date=January 1, 2022 |url-access=limited |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 5, 2012 |access-date=August 24, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In response to the [[2010 Haiti earthquake]], U.S. president Barack Obama announced that Clinton and George W. Bush would coordinate efforts to raise funds for Haiti's recovery.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/16/presidents-clinton-bush-lead-effort-to-raise-funds-for-haiti | title=Presidents Clinton, Bush lead effort to raise funds for Haiti | work=CNN | date=January 16, 2010 | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> Funds began pouring into Haiti, which led to funding becoming available for Caracol Industrial Park in a part of the country unaffected by the earthquake. While Hillary Clinton was in South Korea, she and [[Cheryl Mills]] worked to convince SAE-A, a large apparel subcontractor, to invest in Haiti despite the company's deep concerns about plans to raise the minimum wage. In the summer of 2010, the South Korean company signed a contract at the U.S. State Department, ensuring that the new industrial park would have a key tenant.<ref name="Sontag"/> In 2010, Clinton announced support of, and delivered the keynote address for, the inauguration of [[NTR plc|NTR]], Ireland's first environmental foundation.<ref>{{cite news | title=Clinton backs NTR's environment foundation | work=[[Irish Independent]] | url=http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/clinton-backs-ntrs-environment-foundation-2089592.html | first=Emmet | last=Oliver | date=March 5, 2010 | access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=President Bill Clinton Delivers Keynote Address | publisher=NTR Foundation | date=March 4, 2010 | url=http://www.ntr-foundation.org/uploads/documents/press/clinton_event_press_release_March_4_2010.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.ntr-foundation.org/uploads/documents/press/clinton_event_press_release_March_4_2010.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live | access-date=October 5, 2021}}</ref> At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Clinton gave a widely praised speech nominating Barack Obama.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/06/opinion/opinion-roundup-clinton/index.html | title =Bill Clinton brings it for Obama | publisher =CNN | date =September 6, 2012}}</ref>