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Nov 11, 2021

Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center announces partnership with US Department of State

Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center partners with US Department of State to launch campaign for renewed hemispheric cooperation alongside the ninth Summit of the Americas

Americas
Climate Change & Climate Action

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Oct 21, 2021

Atlantic Council’s Distinguished Leadership Awards Gala to Honor Ursula von der Leyen, Dua Lipa, Albert Bourla, Ugur Sahin, and Özlem Türeci

November 10 ceremony at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC to celebrate exemplary leaders who have contributed to the Atlantic Council’s mission of shaping the global future together; awards mark Atlantic Council’s 60th anniversary

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Oct 20, 2021

Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr announces Africa’s First Chief Heat Officer

The announcement comes as several European cities endorse focused action on extreme heat and the protection of vulnerable people, launched by the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center’s City Champions for Heat Action initiative

Climate Change & Climate Action
Resilience

Press Release

Oct 18, 2021

Seville Mayor Juan Espadas announces heatwave naming and categorization initiative

The announcement comes as several European cities endorse focused action on extreme heat and the protection of vulnerable people, launched by the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center’s City Champions for Heat Action initiative

Climate Change & Climate Action
Resilience

Press Release

Oct 14, 2021

Atlantic Council Releases new report on international technology standards and geopolitics

This new GeoTech Center report finds that, while China is seeking to increase influence over technology standards setting, China is still a long way from unfairly dominating international standards organization.

Technology & Innovation

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Oct 7, 2021

Atlantic Council’s Africa Center to host high-level international summit on African creative industries

Inaugural event dedicated to advancing the African cultural agenda will feature African heads of state, senior US officials, and icons from arts, film & television, sports, fashion, and music industries WASHINGTON DC—October 7, 2021—The Atlantic Council’s Africa Center will host the inaugural Africa Creative Industries Summit on Friday, October 15, 2021. The summit will feature senior government officials, […]

Africa

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Oct 5, 2021

Atlantic Council and Rhodium Group release groundbreaking report on China’s economic trajectory​​​​

First-ever China Pathfinder Annual Scorecard finds China has made progress toward market economy norms but falls well short of promised reforms WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 5, 2021 – The Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center and Rhodium Group today released the first-ever China Pathfinder Annual Scorecard—a groundbreaking study and state-of-the-art data visualization tool examining whether China’s economy is converging or diverging […]

China
Fiscal and Structural Reform

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Oct 4, 2021

Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge expands to South Africa

The University of Cape Town’s Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa joins as strategic partner for virtual competition

Cybersecurity

Press Release

Sep 23, 2021

Atlantic Council names Max Peterson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon Web Services (AWS), as a co-chair of the GeoTech Commission

Washington, DC – September, 23, 2021 – The Atlantic Council announced today that Max Peterson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon Web Services (AWS), will be the newest co-chair of the GeoTech Commission. The Commission is the core pillar of the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center, which launched in 2020 with the goal of […]

Technology & Innovation

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Sep 17, 2021

Mary McCord, Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Joins the Atlantic Council as Nonresident Senior Fellow

By
Atlantic Council

McCord will contribute extensive senior government experience to the Council’s leading work on counterterrorism, national security, the rule of law, and litigation

Defense Policy
Extremism

Content

Press Release

May 3, 2011

Atlantic Council Launches Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East

By Jason Harmala

WASHINGTON, DC – At a time of dramatic historic change across the region, the Atlantic Council today will announce the launch of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security. Both centers are aimed at more effectively harnessing the transatlantic community to address emerging global challenges.

Press Release

May 2, 2011

Available May 10: Frederick Kempe’s new book, BERLIN 1961

By Jason Harmala

Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe’s new book, BERLIN 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth, will be released May 10 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. A starred review in Publishers Weekly calls it “a gripping, almost day-by-day chronicle of colorful, often clueless leaders and their byzantine maneuvers.”  Among Kempe’s conclusions […]

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Apr 19, 2011

Atlantic Council Launches Cyber Statecraft Initiative and Names Jason Healey as Director

By Jason Harmala

WASHINGTON, DC— The Atlantic Council, in partnership with VeriSign, is launching a new Cyber Statecraft Initiative and has named Jason Healey as the first director leading the Council’s expanding work on international cyber policy issues.  “Jason has a deep understanding of the strategic issues that the United States and its friends, allies, and partners around […]

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Mar 17, 2011

Atlantic Council Names J. Peter Pham to Direct Michael S. Ansari Africa Center

By Jason Harmala

The Atlantic Council today announced that J. Peter Pham had been named as director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, where he will oversee the Council’s expanding work on African political, security and economic issues.  “Peter has a profound understanding both of African realities and their policy implications in Washington and Europe,” said Frederick […]

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Mar 3, 2011

Vice President Joe Biden to Deliver Keynote Address at 2011 Atlantic Council Awards Dinner

The Atlantic Council today announced it will host its Annual Awards Dinner with a keynote address by Vice President Joe Biden and presentation of its annual Distinguished Leadership Awards, the organization’s highest honor to one of the world’s pre-eminent business executives; NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander; and a world-renowned tenor and conductor.  The keynote address and […]

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Feb 28, 2011

McCain and Sikorski to Deliver Second Geremek Lecture on Global Democracy Promotion

WASHINGTON, DC – Senator John McCain and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski will deliver the Atlantic Council’s second annual Geremek Lecture on March 1st. In light of Senator McCain’s recent trip to the Middle East, the lecture will touch on global democracy movements and their connection to and inspiration by the Solidarity Movement, led in […]

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Feb 1, 2011

General James L. Jones Returns to Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council is pleased to announce that former National Security Advisor General James L. Jones has rejoined its Board of Directors, which he chaired from June 2007 until joining the Obama administration on January 20, 2009. Jones will serve on the board’s Executive Committee, and assist in expanding the Council’s work on international security […]

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Jan 10, 2011

Zeynep Dereli Appointed as Director of Atlantic Council’s Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum

The Atlantic Council has appointed Zeynep Dereli as Director of the Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum. In this position, Ms. Dereli will manage and develop the Black Sea Forum, broadening and deepening this Council initiative that made great progress in Bucharest in 2009 and Istanbul in 2010 toward strengthening energy, economic and political dialogue […]

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Oct 18, 2010

Marc Grossman Publishes a new Issue Brief Urging the U.S. to Consider a new ‘Triple Crown’ Strategy for European Security

“While the world is certainly a different, more complicated place than it was in 1999, the Obama administration might also find it useful to design a strategy that creates a coherent approach toward the President’s involvement in the NATO, U.S.-EU, and OSCE summits.” Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Atlantic Council Board […]

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Oct 6, 2010

Atlantic Council Will Present its Freedom Awards Dinner in Wrocław, Poland

Wrocław, Poland – In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of Solidarity, the Atlantic Council will present its Freedom Awards dinner in Wrocław, Poland on October 7.