Featured Publications
Kazakhstan and the United States: Twenty Years of Ambiguous Partnership
The Five Futures of Cyber Conflict and Cooperation
US Lessons for the Eurozone Restoring Confidence through Transparency
Prospects and Challenges for Increasing India-Pakistan Trade
A US-EU Action Plan for Supporting Democratization: Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia
Council News
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.
FEATURED ISSUE
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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Biography
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Ashraf Ghani

Ashraf Ghani is Chairman of the State Effectiveness Institute, which exists to rethink the role of the state in the globalized world from the citizen perspective, and a member of the Council's Strategic Advisors Group. Dr Ghani is also currently involved in a number of activities supporting the reform of global institutions, including work as a Commissioner on the UN High-Level Panel on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, as a Governor of IDEA and the World Justice Project of the American Bar Association. Recently, the Government of Afghanistan nominated him for the position of United Nations Secretary General. He is currently on leave from his position as Chancellor of Kabul University.
As Adviser to the UN during the formulation, negotiation and implementation of the Bonn Agreement for Afghanistan, Chief Adviser to President Karzai during the Interim Administration and Afghanistan's Finance Minister for the duration of the Transitional Administration, he is widely credited with the design and implementation of some of Afghanistan's significant reforms during this period. Previously, he was Lead Anthropologist at the World Bank, spending nearly a decade reviewing country strategies, conditionalities, and designing reform programs, including in Russia, India, China and Vietnam.
Born in Afghanistan in 1949, he studied political science at the American University of Beirut, earning degrees there in 1973 and 1977. He continued his academic career in the United States, where he studied international affairs and anthropology at Columbia University where he earned his PhD. He later attended the Harvard-INSEAD and Stanford business schools leadership training program for the World Bank. He served on the faculty of Kabul University (1973-77), Aarhus University in Denmark (1977), University of California, Berkeley (1983), and Johns Hopkins University (1983-1991). He is married with two children and lives in Washington DC and Kabul.
FEATURED EVENTS
The Day After: President Saakashvili on Post-Revolutionary Societies and What Comes After the Arab Spring

On February 1, the Atlantic Council held a discussion with the Honorable Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia, at the US Institute of Peace.
Nigeria on the Edge

On January 31, the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a panel discussion, “Nigeria On The Edge”
Call for Applications: Young Atlanticist NATO Working Group and Young Leaders Summits

The Atlantic Council is accepting applicants for the 2012 Young Atlanticist NATO Working Group and Young Leaders Summits until February 6, 2012. Learn how to apply.
Featured Video
FEATURED INTERVIEW
Interview: We Need to Encourage Research for Development

Infosys' Executive Co-chairman S. Gopalakrishnan, a member of the Atlantic Council's International Advisory Board, spoke to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra of Business Standard on the reasons behind instituting research awards and also about technologies that are expected to steer the IT industry forward.


















