Vice President, Development and External Relations:
Anna Eliasson Schamis
aeliasson@acus.org
202-778-4960
Anna Eliasson Schamis
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202-778-4960
Director for Board and Corporate Relations:
Michael Safinaik
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202-778-4945
Director for Membership Programs:
Elena Pak
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202-778-4967
Director of Finance and Administration:
Drew Ann Jubert
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202-778-4953
Frederick
KempeFrederick Kempe assumed the position of Atlantic Council President and Chief Executive Officer on December 1, 2006 after a short transition. Mr. Kempe comes to the Council from the Wall Street Journal, where he won national and international prizes while serving in numerous management and reportorial capacities—editor, associate publisher, columnist and correspondent. He is the author of three books, a Bloomberg News columnist and a regular commentator on television and radio both in Europe and the United States.
Mr. Kempe left the Wall Street Journal following more than a quarter century of distinguished work. He was most recently assistant managing editor, International, and "Thinking Global" columnist for the Wall Street Journal, based in New York. He was previously for seven years the longest serving editor and associate publisher ever of the Wall Street Journal Europe and was European editor for the global Wall Street Journal from 2002 to 2005, also overseeing Middle Eastern reporting.
During his time as editor and associate publisher, the newspaper won a number of awards including the prestigious Harold Wincott Award as U.K. Business Journal of the Year, the Media Tenor Award as the top international paper in Europe, and multiple "Business Journalist of the Year" prizes from the World Leadership Forum in London. His teams have participated in two Pulitzer Prizes.
In 2002, the European Voice, the leading publication following EU affairs, picked Mr. Kempe as one of the 50 most influential Europeans, although he is American, and one of the four leading journalists in Europe. He has been a frequent television and radio commentator for, among others, CNBC, the BBC and German radio and television. As managing editor from 1992–1997, he created the Central European Economic Review and co-founded Convergence, a magazine on Europe’s digital economy.
As a reporter, Mr. Kempe covered a number of significant stories, including the rise of Solidarity in Poland and the growing resistance to Soviet rule, the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and all his summit meetings with Ronald Reagan, war reporting in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon in the 1980s and the American invasion of Panama. He also covered the unification of Germany and the collapse of Soviet Communism.
Mr. Kempe has written three books that have been published in several languages: "Divorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affair with Noriega"; "Siberian Odyssey: A Voyage into the Russian Soul"; and "Father/Land, a Personal Search for the New Germany." He is currently working on a fourth on Cold War Berlin. Mr. Kempe speaks German fluently and is the son of German immigrants who came to the United States before World War II. His wife, Pamela Meyer, a native of Washington D.C., is chief executive officer of Simpatico Networks.
Mr. Kempe is a graduate of the University of Utah and has a Master’s Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a member of the International Fellows program in the School of International Affairs. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Maryland University College and from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has won the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism's top alumni achievement award and the University of Utah's prize for the top young alumnus.
He serves on a number of Boards of Directors including the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.; the Aspen Institute Berlin in Germany; the Overseas Press Club in New York; and is on the advisory board of the Transatlantic Policy Network. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
