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The Compass: How To Be A Former President: How to be a former president: Part one

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How to Be a Former President: Part one

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How to be a former president: Part one

How To Be A Former President

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How former presidents continue to influence our world - even after leaving office

How do former presidents continue to influence our world, even after leaving office? Giles Edwards has spent a decade meeting them to find out.

What happens to presidents and prime ministers when they stop running their countries, and leave politics behind? Giles Edwards has spent 10 years finding out what they do next. He shares some of his conversations with former world leaders, takes us inside their organisations and helps us understand their thinking.

Giles begins at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, where he speaks to presidents and prime ministers about how they use their influence, and what they contribute when they speak out.

(Photo: Bill Clinton speaks at a Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Manhattan in September 2022. Credit: David Delgado/Reuters)

The Compass: How To Be A Former President

Many former presidents want the job back, but what happens when they leave politics behind

From Trump in the United States to Lula in Brazil, many former presidents want the top job back. But what happens when they leave politics behind? Giles Edwards has spent ten years talking to former presidents and prime ministers - the men and women who used to run a country - about what they do next. And now for BBC World Service he reveals just how much they continue to affect our world – as he shares some of those conversations, takes us inside their organisations and helps us understand their thinking – in ‘How to be a Former President’.

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