Category: Event Recap

Roundtable with UK Minister of State for Europe David Lidington

By Atlantic Council

On Wednesday, September 17, the Transatlantic Relations program hosted an off-the-record discussion with UK Minister of State for Europe David Lidington. The conversation was moderated by Fran Burwell, vice president and director of transatlantic relations at the Council.

The Rising Power of Central Banks and Sovereign Funds as Investors

‘Global Public Investors’ Hold $29 Trillion in Global Assets—and Raise Regulatory Questions The Atlantic Council hosted a panel discussion September 22 on the increasing role in capital markets of the world’s hundreds of central banks, sovereign wealth funds and government pension funds. The top 400 of these “global public investors” hold about $29 trillion in […]

Latin America is Ripe for Social Impact Investment

By Atlantic Council

Latin America is ripe for impact investment, according to two social impact investment experts who spoke at the Atlantic Council on September 10. The poverty rate has dropped from 42 percent in 2000 to 25 percent in 2012. Four hundred million people have risen from the base of the economic pyramid in recent years. This […]

Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards Celebrate Dynamic, Diverse Individuals

By The Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council presented its annual Global Citizen Awards on September 21 to six people whose leadership or partnership has strengthened the transatlantic community and contributed to its role in addressing world problems. The 2014 honorees are: former President of Israel Shimon Peres; actor, film director, and producer Robert De Niro; former Prime Minister of […]

Scotland’s ‘No’ to Independence Avoids Cataclysm for UK, Former NATO Chief Says

Lord George Robertson: Scottish Vote May Calm Other Secession Moves Yesterday’s decisive rejection of independence by Scottish voters has sidestepped a “cataclysmic” degradation of Britain, a pillar of the transatlantic community, said Lord George Robertson, a former secretary-general of NATO. It is likely to slow down other secession movements, which challenge governments in Spain, Belgium, […]

Mat Burrows ‘Declassifies the Future’ to a Rapt Audience

By The Atlantic Council

“This is the closest you’re going to come to seeing through the fog and making sense of the megatrends that are coming” said Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council President and CEO, of Mathew Burrows’ latest publication, The Future Declassified: Megatrends that Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action. The book expands on his work on […]

Atlantic Council and USAID Host Colombian Superstar Carlos Vives

By The Atlantic Council

Intimate Lunch Highlights Work on Afro-Colombian Inclusion The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, in partnership with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), hosted a private lunch with Carlos Vives, the Grammy-award-winning Colombian rock and vallenato fusion superstar, at its headquarters in Washington on September 17. Corporate, government, and civil society leaders joined […]

Poroshenko: Ukraine Needs Arms ‘to Win the Peace’

By James Rupert

Ukrainian President Outlines Strategy, Asks US Help to Build Army and Halt Corruption Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko spoke at the Atlantic Council today, outlining his hopes to use his country’s fragile, two-week-old truce with Russia to ultimately defeat Moscow’s efforts to wrest control of southeastern Ukraine. In the final stop of a fast-paced official visit […]

Peace after Gaza: A New Framework for a Changing Landscape

By The Atlantic Council

In the aftermath of seven weeks of conflict in Gaza, regional and international stakeholders are grappling with the day after. Efforts to address short-term issues such as relief and recovery that require immediate attention should not detract from broader issues including lasting stability, development, security, and political pluralism. Does the recent conflict allow for a […]