British-North American Committee
The British-North American Committee (BNAC) is a group of leaders from business, labor, and academia in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada committed to constructive relations among the three countries and their citizens. Its members meet regularly to discuss major economic, scientific and policy issues of mutual concern with top policymakers, scientists and business leaders. While nonpartisan and supportive of closer economic and political relations on a broad international basis, the BNAC believes that close personal ties and cooperation among leaders from various spheres in the three countries will play, in the future as they have in the past, a special role in promoting global security and prosperity.
The Atlantic Council served as an umbrella organization for the Committee in North America until January 2011.
More information about BNAC can be found on its website.
British-North American Committee Releases Statement on Corporate Governance by US, UK, and Canadian Executives
September 02, 2010BNAC: Issues Concerning Effective Corporate Governance
September 01, 2010
It is two years since the financial services sector of many of the world's leading economies were plunged into disarray.
The uncertainty this generated meant that individual and institutional investors were very reluctant to participate in the financial markets resulting in a dramatic decline in asset values, credit becoming largely unavailable and, as a result, liquidity became very difficult to generate. Rapid intervention by national governments, directly and through central banks and regulatory agencies, was undertaken in an attempt to restore confidence in the markets and to keep a number of financial institutions solvent. Some were allowed to fail.
British-North American Committee: 81st Meeting
October 18, 2009
From October 15–18, the British-North American Committee (BNAC) held its 81st meeting in Washington, D.C.
Public Sector Pensions Report: Transparency Standards Lacking
June 29, 2009
The British-North American Committee Public Sector Pensions Report warns that the true costs of public sector pensions are being significantly understated by the U.S., UK and Canadian governments.
Schwab: Davos Model Key to Solving Systems Crisis
October 17, 2008
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, spoke to an audience of Atlantic Council members for the inaugural Global Leadership Series event in New York. The speech also served as the kickoff for the 79th meeting of the British-North American Committee (BNAC).
Cyber Attack: Risk Management Primer for CEOs
December 19, 2007
No business, government, nongovernmental, or other organization of whatever size is invulnerable to cyber attacks. Business owners and executives, including managing directors, cannot afford to put at risk the security and stability of their operating and financial systems, confidential information, intellectual property, and business transactions to cyber predators through lack of knowledge or initiative.
Cybercrime Wake-Up Call Needed
December 12, 2007
CEOs who think cybercrime is just the business of CIOs are like Enron’s shrugging off the companies books as something for the accounting department. Those provocative words from Dr. Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN, highlighted an all-star panel discussion on the launch of Cyber Attack: A Risk Management Primer for CEOs and Directors released on December 12 by the British-North American Committee (BNAC) and the Atlantic Council of the United States, the U.S. sponsor of the Committee.
PROGRAM EVENTS
British-North American Committee: 81st Meeting
From October 15–18, the British-North American Committee (BNAC) held its 81st meeting in Washington, D.C.
Schwab: Davos Model Key to Solving Systems Crisis
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, spoke to an audience of Atlantic Council members for the inaugural Global Leadership Series event in New York. The speech also served as the kickoff for the 79th meeting of the British-North American Committee (BNAC).
Cybercrime Wake-Up Call Needed
CEOs who think cybercrime is just the business of CIOs are like Enron’s shrugging off the companies books as something for the accounting department. Those provocative words from Dr. Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN, highlighted an all-star panel discussion on the launch of Cyber Attack: A Risk Management Primer for CEOs and Directors released on December 12 by the British-North American Committee (BNAC) and the Atlantic Council of the United States, the U.S. sponsor of the Committee.
