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Damon Wilson US Senate Testimony: Ukraine at a Crossroads
On February 1, Atlantic Council executive vice president Damon Wilson testified at a hearing of the US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations on the topic: "Ukraine at a Crossroads: What's at Stake for the US and Europe?"
Michele Dunne on US-Egypt Relations for NPR's Morning Edition
Relations between the US and Egypt have taken a downturn since Egyptian authorities raided the offices of seventeen nongovernmental organizations in December - three of them US-funded. Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about the situation and what it means for US aid to Egypt.
Atlantic Council SAG Members Nominated for Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature
The Oxford Handbook of War, edited by Atlantic Council Strategic Advisors Group members Julian Lindley-French and Yves Boyer, has been nominated for the prestigious Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature awarded by the Royal United Services Institute.
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The South Asia Center receives guidance and support from many experts throughout the world. Our senior fellows, guest-speakers, Center patrons, and visitors contribute heavily to the Center’s mission to “wage peace,” and engage the international community in the region. The Center asked our contributors the simple, but key question, “What you do expect in 2012?”
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Gary Gensler: Financial Reforms and the Global Economic Recovery
January 12, 2010
Gary Gensler, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, discussed reforms to over-the-counter derivatives as well as other financial markets with the Atlantic Council. In light of the emerging global economic recovery, Gensler also addressed the issue of transatlantic cooperation on new regulation to ensure the future health of financial markets and to protect the broader economy and the public.
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| David Wessel and Gary Gensler |
David Wessel, Economics Editor of the Wall Street Journal, moderated the event, and Atlantic Council Board member John D. Macomber, principal of JDM Investment Group, introduced Gensler. The conversation was part of the Mapping the Economic and Financial Future Series, a lecture series featuring high-level business leaders and economic policymakers from the U.S. and Europe hosted by the Council’s Global Business and Economics Program.
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Media Coverage:
- Derivatives Exemption Helps Big Wall Street Banks, Gensler Says – Bloomberg, Dawn Kopecki
- OTC market must escape dealers' clutches, says Gensler – Futures and Options Intelligence
- Obama administration seeks EU support in derivatives drive – Europolitics, Brian Beary
- CFTC: Derivitive Gambling 20 Times Size Of U.S. Economy – Newsroom Magazine
- Will the Senate Close the Derivatives Loopholes? – Project on Government Oversight, Michael Smallberg
New Atlanticist Analysis:
- Derivatives Market 20 Times Size of American Economy – James Joyner
Mapping the Economic and Financial Future Series:
- Robert Zoellick Assesses the World Economy
- Reforming the World Bank and IMF: A Conversation with Nancy Birdsall
- Tim Adams on China and the Global Economic Recovery
- EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy: Regulating Financial Markets in Crisis
- Youssef Boutros Ghali Discusses IMF, Economic Crisis
- Josef Ackermann on the Global Economic and Financial Crisis
- Kroes Speaks on Economic Crisis
The Mapping the Economic and Financial Future Series is generously supported by Deutsche Bank.
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