The Next Generation got the inside scoop on September 4th when we went deep inside the Capitol itself, for a private conversation in the Office of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, with two young, energetic Washington insiders — Mike Manatos, an up-and-coming public policy lobbyist, and his brother [...]
When you sit down across the table to negotiate some thorny issues with your second biggest trading partner, your best might hope might be for some gentlemanly give-and-take — something more than trading banalities about the weather, and something less than a no-holds-barred trade war. What happens, though, when the [...]
What are the challenges to running the largest city in the country — a city which is simultaneously a world capital, a major center for tourism, the leading center for business and finance in the region — and whose 6,000 years of history make it one of the great centers of western [...]
Young, handsome and articulate, PASOK’s press spokesman (and soon-to-be Minister of Finance) George Papaconstantinou has been compared to “Sam Seaborn,” the fictional White House Communications Director played by Rob Lowe on the American television show West Wing. A PhD in the economics of technology from the London School of Economics, and a recently-elected Member of the European Parliament, Mr. [...]
With deep uncertainty hanging over the global economy, at a time when competitive pressures are greater than ever, there couldn’t have been better timing to have a Master Class on infrastructure and global investment with the CEO of the billion-dollar cement company. Even better that it was a lively and informal [...]
A Master Class with Dr. Demetrios Papademetriou, the one of the world’s leading experts on one of the most critical issues facing our nation today — immigration — and president of the international think-tank right in the thick of the policy debate on four continents.
How do think tanks work, and what shapes a career in the world of policy analysis and debate – in a time when the debate is hot and heavy? The latest installment in our Summer Leadership Institute Series came when Next Generation students and our Athens Fellows got an [...]
A Master Class overlooking the historic and emotionally-stirring site of Athens’ Panathinaiko Stadium — home of the ancient Panathenaic Games, and site of the first modern Olympics in 1896 — with Alexis Phylactopoulos, president of the International Center for Hellenic & Mediterranean Studies, who offered his insights into Greece’s role in Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean, [...]
Change is coming — again — to the nation’s capital. What does this moment in our history mean for our nation – and for the world? A packed conference room on K Street was the scene of the end-of-the-year, Washington-style wrap-up of our special election-year series of conversations with political [...]
How does a leader respond to dramatic developments across the world and challenges crises on the domestic front, when the public is growing impatient, time is growing short – and the news cycle even shorter? Twenty-five students – along with a group of special guests from the American Community School [...]
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