In the News: August 2016
In August, the Trans Pacific Partnership and India-U.S. Science & Technology program caught the media’s attention.
In August, the Trans Pacific Partnership and India-U.S. Science & Technology program caught the media’s attention.
Charles Rivkin, the highly decorated former ambassador to France and current assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs at the U.S. State Department, didn’t forget his business roots during a visit to Atlanta June 3…
Global health leaders convened in Atlanta to help raise an alarm of the dangers of the ongoing refugee crisis…
With an economic crisis deepening and a potential government meltdown looming in Venezuela, it might be tempting for U.S. officials to gloat with an “I told you so…”
International Women’s Day came to Atlanta Tuesday. The World Affairs Council of Atlanta thought it was about time for our city to mark the day, according to Charles Shapiro, its president and CEO…
The 130 attendees of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta luncheon on Oct. 15 at the Commerce Club downtown were encouraged to open their minds to the benefits of a unified Korea despite their concerns about the nuclear policies of North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un…
The day before Pope Francis arrived in Cuba on Saturday, September 19, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced changes in U.S. regulations regarding doing business in Cuba. It’s not quite Swiss cheese but there are more holes in the embargo every day. The new regulations went into effect Monday, September 21. Coincidence? Absolutely not…
About a month ago, the World Affairs Council of Atlanta asked Turkish Consul General Ozgur Kivanc Altan to come up to Atlanta from Miami to speak on Aug. 13 about his country’s June elections. The invitation proved prescient in ways the organizers couldn’t have imagined…
Home from a five-day trip to Cuba, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said he’s even more confident the city has significant future trade opportunities with the island country. With local expertise in airport management, logistics, food exports, information technology and tourism, Atlanta is well-poised to be among the three most important domestic partners with Cuba, on par with Miami and the New York area, Reed said…
Three days into Mayor Kasim Reed’s trip to Cuba, the enormity of the country’s needs is coming into focus. Under the financially-strapped Communist government, the country is crumbling. Across Havana, in particular, cobblestone streets and statuesque Spanish Colonial buildings are in dire need of repair. In all of those things, Atlanta leaders see possibilities, but also challenges…