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2016 Annual Report 2016 ANNUAL REPORT HUDSON INSTITUTE 2016 ANNUAL REPORT 1 "The world without American engagement is a world none of us wants to live in." —SENATOR MARCO RUBIO 2 HERMAN KAHN AWARD DINNER LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN 4 AND THE PRESIDENT & CEO RESEARCH & IMPACT 6 HERMAN KAHN AWARD DINNER 16 GOVERNMENT RELATIONS 18 MEDIA OUTREACH & EVENTS 22 SUPPORT FOR HUDSON 28 FINANCIALS & AT-A-GLANCE 32 SCHOLARS & STAFF 34 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 50 2016 WAS ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARILY PRODUCTIVE YEAR FOR HUDSON INSTITUTE. Our people and projects were more active and visible, on more fronts, and with greater impact than ever before. into the Biodefense Strategy Act introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Com- mittee, and prompted a White House review of fed- eral programs. Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs’ research played a key role in a new congressional drive to ex- pand and improve U.S. missile defense capabilities. Senior Fellow Nina Shea’s efforts to promote and protect religious freedom helped spur the State De- SARAH MAY STERN KENNETH R. WEINSTEIN partment to designate the Islamic State’s persecu- Chairman of the Board President and CEO tion of Middle Eastern Christians as “genocide.” And House Speaker Paul Ryan introduced a health care reform plan that drew heavily on Senior Fellow With a historic election campaign underway here at Jeffrey Anderson’s report, Alternative to Obamacare. home, and with significant turmoil overseas—from Hudson’s prominence in Washington policy Europe to the Middle East to Asia—Hudson experts discussions and the unparalleled influence of our were in constant public demand: for written com- audience also made the Institute a magnet for mentary in every major publication in the United leading statesmen and officeholders seeking the States; for live interviews on every leading news most powerful possible platform for their views. In channel; and for formal testimony during high-pro- New York City in September, after being present- file House and Senate committee hearings. ed with Hudson’s 2016 Herman Kahn Award, Is- Demand for Hudson’s private counsel was sim- raeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu partic- ilarly intense. The Institute organized closed-door ipated in a nearly hour-long conversation with briefings and policy workshops for eight different noted philanthropist Roger Hertog—and spoke presidential candidates, more than 60 incumbent with rare candor and striking optimism about the members of Congress, high-level delegations from future of his country’s economy, its complicated the European and Indian parliaments and Japa- domestic politics and demography, and its shift- LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND PRESIDENT & CEO nese Diet, and a host of senior diplomats and cabi- ing regional diplomatic and security alliances. net ministers from allied foreign governments. Here in Washington in February, our 2013 Her- The practical effect of Hudson’s work was obvi- man Kahn Award honoree, Prime Minister Shinzō ous and significant. To mention but a few examples: Abe of Japan, was the featured guest and keynote The policy recommendations of Hudson’s Blue Rib- speaker at the grand opening reception for Hud- bon Study Panel on Biodefense were incorporated son’s state-of-the-art, vastly expanded new head- 4 LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND THE PRESIDENT & CEO quarters facility on Pennsylvania Avenue. Abe of- fered moving praise of the Institute’s signal contributions to global security generally—and to the crucial U.S.-Japan relationship in particular. Following Prime Minister Abe to Hudson’s conference room stage over the course of the year were a long list of top newsmakers including Sen- ators Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, and Lindsey Gra- ham; Congressman Mike Pompeo—who has since become Director of the Central Intelligence Agen- cy; and many others. Hudson is now uniquely well placed to help shape policy in Washington over the next four years and beyond. Our already deep bench of tal- ent has been expanded to include experts like Craig Kennedy, former president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and Ron Pro- sor, former Israeli Permanent Representative to the United Nations. We have friends and former colleagues serving in the new administration; Dis- tinguished Fellow Elaine Chao has been tapped to serve as Secretary of Transportation, for example. And our extensive, carefully tended collection of contacts outside the executive branch—in both major political parties and representing a broad range of philosophical tendencies—gives us a flex- ibility and reach that few other comparable insti- tutions can match. None of what we have achieved so far would have been possible without the loyal support of our many friends and contributors, of course. We offer our sincerest thanks to those of you who’ve given so generously in the past. And we invite those of you who may be new to Hudson to visit us, join in, and actively participate as we push ahead to even greater success—for America and the world—as the future unfolds. Best regards, SARAH MAY STERN KENNETH R. WEINSTEIN HUDSON INSTITUTE 2016 ANNUAL REPORT 5 RESEARCH & IMPACT 6 RESEARCH & IMPACT "I AM DETERMINED TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN OUR ALLIANCE OF HOPE. I wish you future success for the Institute as a bridge in intellectual exchanges between Japan and the United States." —PRIME MINISTER SHINZŌ ABE 2016 was another tumultuous year in global af- shall Fund—each of who had an immediate im- fairs—and Hudson experts regularly provided the pact on a variety of Institute projects to strengthen in-depth research, candid counsel, and practical the U.S. economy, rethink American diplomatic solutions sought by policymakers, military com- and security policy, and deepen our relationships manders, journalists, and opinion leaders all over with allied governments and like-minded think the world. With thorough reports, conversa- tanks and universities overseas. tion-changing editorials, congressional testimony, No part of the world drew more attention in news-making events, and detailed briefings, Hud- 2016 than the Middle East, where the ongoing son fellows had a pivotal role in helping American depredations of ISIS, the devastating civil war in and international officials respond to the most Syria, the lifting of international sanctions against pressing challenges of the day. Iran, and the Kremlin’s reassertion of Russian in- To better meet Hudson’s growing responsibili- fluence escalated existing tensions—and compro- ties, the Institute continued its long-term strategic mised America’s standing. Throughout the year, expansion, relocating to a spacious, state-of-the- Hudson fellows produced a wealth of analysis and art headquarters facility on Washington’s Penn- commentary highlighting the myriad flaws in cur- sylvania Avenue, and adding a number of key ex- rent U.S. Middle East policy and detailing the stra- perts to an already unparalleled policy team. tegic and tactical corrections the new administra- Notable newcomers to Hudson included former tion should pursue. U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao (who has In October, Senior Fellow Michael Doran— since become Secretary of Transportation); Am- whose celebrated 2015 essay on the P5+1 nuclear bassador Ron Prosor, former Israeli Permanent agreement with Iran has become the standard in- Representative to the United Nations; and Craig terpretation of President Obama’s thinking about Kennedy, former president of the German Mar- the Middle East—published a much praised retell- Photos: (Clockwise from top) Kenneth R. Weinstein and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe at the grand opening of Hudson’s new office. Rebeccah Heinrichs, former Sen. Jon Kyl, Sen. Tom Cotton, and retired Gen. Charles Jacoby, Jr. discussing space and missile de- fense. CIA Director and former Rep. Mike Pompeo at a Hudson conference on energy security. Arthur Herman and T. Boone Pick- ens discussing American natural gas resources. HUDSON INSTITUTE 2016 ANNUAL REPORT 7 ing of the 1956 Suez Crisis, Ike’s Gamble. Doran’s Fellow Husain Haqqani published a widely read book underscores the bedrock foreign policy prin- essay in The Wall Street Journal warning that Amer- ciple that a regretful Dwight Eisenhower came to ican Middle East policy cannot afford to neglect acknowledge only too late: that Israel, not any of Afghanistan and Pakistan, which remain the its Arab neighbors, is America’s strongest and world’s most active incubators of terrorism. In the most dependable regional ally. Also in 2016, Dis- pages of The American Interest, Senior Fellow Eric tinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead completed B. Brown carefully explained how the events of work on his latest book, The Arc of a Covenant: The Turkey’s annus horribilis (a failed coup attempt and United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish Peo- a series of deadly terror attacks) exacerbated a de- ple, a comprehensive history of the American-Is- cline of democracy in that country that actually raeli relationship that will be published by Knopf long predates 2016. in early 2018. And Senior Fellow Nina Shea, director of Hud- Hudson continued its work with Israel son’s Center for Religious Freedom, worked all year throughout the year, hosting a public discussion long, tirelessly and with ultimate success, to secure with Ambassador Dore Gold, the Director Gener- an official U.S. acknowledgement and designation al of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; honoring of “genocide” with respect to ISIS’s persecution of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with our an- Christians and other religions minorities in the nual Herman Kahn Award; and co-sponsoring the Iraqi and Syrian territories that terrorist group con- Hudson Institute-University of Haifa Blue Ribbon tinues to control. Shea also briefed Pope Francis in Commission on the Eastern Mediterranean, co- Rome at a conference of Catholic legislators orga- chaired by former Sen. Mary Landrieu (LA) and nized to develop strategies to defend ISIS’s vic- retired Rear Admiral Shaul Chorev, former head tims—and call attention to the plight of Coptic of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission and deputy Christians in Egypt, as well.
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