Bill Clinton on Talk Asia

(CNN) -- Eight years after Bill Clinton left the White House, the 42nd President of the United States of America still looms large on the world stage, often attracting the kind of attention usually only reserved for incumbent presidents.

After leaving office as the youngest ever former-president, he set up the Clinton Foundation, in the process transforming himself from a highly skilled politician and international statesman to a kind of one man NGO, working together with governments and private and public organizations to enact positive change across a range of initiatives.

Born in Hope, Arkansas in 1946, Clinton won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University in 1968, before receiving a law degree from Yale University in 1973.

Soon after graduating he entered politics in Arkansas, claiming the state governor's office in 1978. He lost his re-election bid four years later, but regained it and served until 1992 when he was elected as president.

In office from 1993 to 2001, Clinton was the first Democratic president to be re-elected since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

During eight eventful years, many political analysts have said that his presidency popularized the office of president but also polarized opinion in the U.S., most notably with personal scandals that led to attempts to impeach him.

Internationally, he visited more foreign countries that any other president, paved the way for China's entrance in the World Trade Organization, and made great efforts to find peace in the Middle East and Northern Ireland.

He also sanctioned American military to be used in a NATO force that bombed the then Yugoslavia, justifying it as a humanitarian act to prevent the further loss of innocent life in Kosovo.

On the domestic front, when he left office in 2001, the U.S. had the largest budget surplus in its history and the lowest unemployment rate in 40 years.

From the global economy and society to the environment, Talk Asia will be talking to former President Clinton, discussing the issues facing the world today as well as the legacy of his own presidency.

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