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Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin

Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin is director of the Aspen Institute Berlin since November 2001. The Aspen Institute is an independent non-profit and non-partisan organization for international affairs and transatlantic relations. The director oversees all operations within the institute, directs programs, gives lectures, and writes articles regularly for a host of publications in Germany and abroad. He is a member of the Council for a Community of Democracies Board.
Dr. Gedmin was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, where he coordinated and directed the New Atlantic Initiative, a coalition of international institutes, politicians, leading journalists, and business executives dedicated to the revitalization and expansion of the Atlantic community of democracies. Dr. Gedmin is a regular columnist for the American Spectator and Die Welt. His articles on foreign and defense issues, including NATO, US-EU relations, missile defense, and Balkan security have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, Die Welt, and elsewhere. He is the author of ”The Hidden Hand: Gorbachev and the Collapse of East Germany“ (1992) and the editor of ”European Integration and the American Interest“ (1997). He was executive editor and producer of the award winning PBS television program, The Germans, Portrait of a New Nation. Dr. Gedmin holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University.



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