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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
Jonathan Paris Discusses Syrian Crisis with France 24
Jonathan Paris, nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, appeared on France 24 to discuss Russia's support for the Assad regime and what it means for a possible UN resolution against Syria.
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.
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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Dr. Daniel Vasella
Daniel Vasella, MD, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Novartis AG. He was appointed Chairman in April 1999, having served as CEO and Head of the Group Executive Committee since the merger that created Novartis in 1996.
As the first CEO of Novartis, Dr. Vasella had a leading role in the merger of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. Under Dr. Vasella, Novartis has strategically focused the business onhealthcare with Pharmaceuticals as its core.
During his tenure as Chairman and CEO, Dr. Vasella has enhanced the company’scorporate governance policies in line with best practices and listed Novartis on the New York Stock Exchange. He has also strengthened Novartis’ research capacity in leading technologies, establishing The Genomics Institute of The Novartis Research Foundation, which is focused on developing therapeutics from the data generated from the mapping of the human genome, and by moving Novartis' research headquarters to Cambridge(Mass., USA), close to top scientific talent and patient and hospital networks.
Dr. Vasella has also implemented strong pioneering initiatives to ensure access tomedicines such as: the Patient Assistance Program for Novartis’ breakthrough cancer drug Glivec®//Gleevec™, the agreement to supply Novartis’ novel malaria treatment Coartem®at cost to the World Health Organization, and the pledge to donate the drug therapy needed to eradicate leprosy worldwide. Furthermore, on Dr. Vasella’s instigation, Novartis subscribed to the UN Global Compact initiative.
Before the Novartis merger, Daniel Vasella was Chief Executive Officer of Sandoz Pharma Ltd. and a member of the Sandoz Group Executive Committee. From 1988 to 1992 he was with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation in the US, prior to which he held a number of medical positions in Switzerland.
Dr. Vasella is a member of the Board of Directors of PepsiCo Inc. and of the Chairman’s Council of DaimlerChrysler. He chairs the International Business Leaders Advisory Council for the Mayor of Shanghai and is also a member of the International Board of Governors of the Peres Center for Peace. In 2002 Dr. Vasella was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel.
Dr. Vasella was born in 1953, is married and has three children.
FEATURED EVENTS
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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FEATURED INTERVIEW
Is Nigeria at a Crossroad?
In this edition of the New Atlanticist Podcast, Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri speaks to Mr. Tutu Agyare, founder and managing partner of Nubuke Investments, one of Africas’s largest asset managers.
