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Biography

Adrian Karatnycky

Adrian Karatnycky is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Program on Transatlantic Relations and Managing Partner of Myrmidon Group LLC, a New York based consultancy that works with investors and corporations seeking entry into the complex  emerging markets of Ukraine and Eastern Europe.  He is a founder and co-director of the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter.

From 1993 until 2004, he was President and executive Director of Freedom House, during which time he developed programs of assistance to democratic and human rights movements in Belarus, Serbia, Russia, and Ukraine. At Freedom House he devised a range of long-term comparative analytic surveys of democracy and political reform. For twelve years he directed the benchmark survey Freedom in the World and was co-editor of the annual Nations in Transit study of reform in the post- Communist world.

He is a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, and many other periodicals. He is co-author of three books and co-editor of eight books on Soviet and post-Soviet themes.

 

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The Way Forward in Europe

On February 13, the Atlantic Council's Global Business and Economics Program will host Luc Frieden, finance minister of Luxembourg, and an influential member of the European Union’s Eurogroup and Economic and Financial Affairs Council.

Libya Revisited: Coalition Building and the Future of NATO Operations

Please join the Atlantic Council for a public address and conversation with General Charles Bouchard, commander of the NATO military mission in Libya.

Pivotal Partnerships: The Prospects for International Defense Cooperation in an Age of Austerity

On Wednesday, February 15, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will join the Atlantic Council for a public address and conversation on international defense cooperation. 

Counter-Piracy Task Force: Strategic Approaches to the Piracy Challenge

On February 8, 2012, the International Security Program and the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a meeting of the Atlantic Council Maritime Piracy Task Force, chaired by Atlantic Council Board Director Franklin D. Miller. This is the third in a series of meetings looking into the challenge of piracy and possible strategic approaches.

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Global Leadership Circle