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
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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Muslim Lakhani
Muslim Lakhani is a member of the Atlantic Council Board of Directors. Muslim Lakhani is Chairman and CEO of ML Resources and ML Private Investments, LLC. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist of Pakistani origin. For over 25 years, he has developed natural resource projects as well as undertook other business ventures in the Middle East and South Asia. Mr. Lakhani resides with his family in Washington DC.
In the last ten years, Mr. Lakhani has undertaken several high-risk ventures. In early 1999, he spearheaded a heavy oil project in Egypt when the price of oil was less than US $12/barrel. In 2001, he helped re-activate one of the world’s largest dormant copper fields due to the vey low price of copper in the remote province of Baluchistan, Pakistan. In mid-2008, Mr. Lakhani established ML Private Investments, LLC with the purpose of investing in the U.S. equity markets at the height of the financial crisis.
Mr. Lakhani has always recognized that once projects were de-risked during the exploration stages, larger companies were better suited to help them achieve their true potential. This was evident when the Egypt heavy oil field was sold in 2007 to a Large Arab Fund and the Baluchistan Copper Project was bought by two of the world’s largest copper and gold mining companies in 2006. When he was successful, Mr. Lakhani often says it was because good fortune and luck were on his side.
He has been active in promoting dialogue among different faiths, ethnic groups, and social classes [ML’s recent interview with the Wilson Center’s Dialogue program], helping build institutions for political, social, and economic reform [December 2004 speech at G-8 Summit in Rabat, ML’s Views on the importance of free judiciary in the Islamic World, December 2004]. His long-standing commitment to philanthropy, coupled with the success of risk and reward over the years was harnessed to form ML Resources Social Vision, the strategic philanthropy arm of the company that encompasses the spirit of sharing and tolerance.
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.
