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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Dr. Thomas Enders
Thomas Enders was appointed Airbus President and Chief Executive Officer in August 2007. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer of EADS, a position he held since June 2005. Since June 2006, he has been Chairman of the Airbus Shareholder Committee.
Mr Enders began his professional career in 1982 as an assistant in the German Federal Parliament. From 1985, he worked as a Research Associate at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in St. Augustin, and subsequently at the German Council on Foreign Affairs in Bonn and at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
From 1989 to 1991, he was a member of the Planning Staff of the German Ministry of Defence in Bonn.
In 1991, Tom Enders joined MBB/Dasa, holding various marketing positions before becoming Corporate Secretary and Head of the Dasa Chairman's Office in 1995. Later on, he served for more than three years as Director Corporate Development and Technology at Dasa.
Following the creation of EADS in 2000, Tom Enders was appointed CEO of the EADS Defence and Security Systems Division. He held this position until June 2005 when he was appointed CEO of EADS. He has been a Member of the EADS Executive Committee since 2000.
In April 2005, Enders was elected President of the German Aerospace Industries Association BDLI. In June 2005 he also took the chair of the Atlantik-Brücke e.V, a non-profit organisation aimed at strengthening the transatlantic ties between Germany and the United States.
Tom Enders studied Economics, Political Science and History at the University of Bonn and at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1987 he received a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Bonn. Mr Enders is a Major (Reserve) in the German army.
Tom Enders was born in December 1958 in Neuschlade, Germany. He is married and has four sons. In his spare time he enjoys various kinds of sports including mountaineering, skiing and skydiving. Tom Enders holds a Private Pilot's License (PPL) for helicopters.
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.
