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Biography

Sarwar Kashmeri

Sarwar A. Kashmeri is senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's International Security Program.  He is a strategic communications advisor to international companies, a business columnist and an author; he is recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as a specialist and commentator on U.S.-European relations.

Kashmeri’s latest book, NATO 2.0: Reboot or Delete? will be released by Potomac Books, in January 2011.  The third edition of Kashmeri’s America and Europe after 9/11 and Iraq: the Great Divide was published by Potomac Books in September 2008.  The book is based on his experience as a transatlantic businessman, and on private conversations with American and European leaders. Palgrave Macmillan selected Kashmeri to write the chapter on the future of the United States-European relationship for The Impact of 9/11 on Politics and War: The Day That Changed Everything? (August 2009)

Kashmeri makes extensive use of Internet communication channels in his work. He hosts Global Currents for the Foreign Policy Association-a series of podcast conversations with global leaders that explore the intersection of globalization, international business, and foreign policy. The Twin State Valley Media Network of Claremont, New Hampshire retained him to launch the first podcast coverage of Presidential candidates for the 2008 NH Primary. He hosts the Internet/MP3 program Main Street Voices in which small business CEOs discuss the economic slowdown and stimulus plans. At the Atlantic Council he initiated and hosts the popular New Atlanticist Podcast Series. He speaks frequently before business, foreign policy, and military audiences.

Kashmeri earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering, and a MS in Engineering, both from Saint Louis University where he taught on the faculty. He has written numerous opinion pieces on transatlantic issues and chaired business and public policy panels. He was an invited participant to the  National Security Seminar  at the United States Army War College, and was a member of at the globalization panel preceding the U.S. Presidential Debate held September 2008 in Oxford, Mississippi. Kashmeri is also a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association of New York; a member of the National Advisory Board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation; The Advisory Board of the American Precision Museum, American, Advisory Board of the Ditchley (U.K.) Foundations, and a member of the Vermont Council on World Affairs. He teaches an annual course on American foreign policy at Dartmouth College’s School of Continuing Education-ILEAD.

Kashmeri may be contacted skashmeri@acus.org  or via telephone: (US) 802.484.3411