LITTLE ROCK — Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will speak Thursday in Little Rock at the graduation ceremony of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, according to the Clinton Foundation.

LITTLE ROCK — Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will speak Thursday in Little Rock at the graduation ceremony of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, according to the Clinton Foundation.

The three former world leaders are scheduled to hold a discussion during the invitation-only event at Central High School. The event also will include a conversation with Ernest Green, Minnijean Brown-Trickey and Carlotta Walls LaNier, who were among the students known as the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High in 1957.

The Presidential Leadership Scholars program is a leadership development initiative that draws upon the resources of the presidential centers of Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Thursday’s graduation ceremony will be its second.

The class of 61 scholars was selected from more than 600 applications. Scholars were selected based on their leadership growth potential and the strength of their personal leadership projects aimed at improving the civic or social good by addressing a problem or need in a community, profession or organization.

Clinton and George W. Bush engage directly with the scholars, as do senior officials from each of the four administrations.

Clinton also is scheduled to speak at a fundraiser for the Democratic Party of Arkansas, the annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock on Friday.