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ANNUAL REPORT 2018 / 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 231180_cover.indd 4-6 4/23/19 2:54 PM THEMATIC GLOBAL DEFINING PROGRAMS CONVENINGS CHALLENGES 6 72 22 Scowcroft Center Distinguished Defending Open for Strategy and Security Leadership Awards Market Democracies 10 74 36 Global Energy Center Global Citizen Awards Advocating for Adapted Global Leadership 14 76 Millennium Leadership Program Global Energy Forum 48 Harnessing 18 78 Technological Change Global Business & NATO Engages Economics Program 58 Navigating Major Power Conflict 24 Adrienne Arsht Center COMMUNITIES 68 for Resilience OF INFLUENCE Revitalizing the Global System 28 82 Board of Directors Digital Forensic Research Lab 32 83 International Advisory Board Atlantic Council IN TURKEY 84 Honor Roll of Contributors REGIONAL CENTERS 86 Financial Summary 40 Middle East Programs 44 Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center 50 Eurasia Center 54 Future Europe Initiative 60 South Asia Center 64 Africa Center 2018 / 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 1 231180_text.indd 1 4/22/19 9:08 PM LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND THE PRESIDENT & CEO LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND THE PRESIDENT & CEO For nearly sixty years, the Atlantic results-oriented approach we conflict; new doubts have Council has pursued the mission bring to our work. In the pages emerged regarding democracy’s bestowed on us by our founders: that follow, we have laid out future even as autocracies have to galvanize constructive US the purpose of each of these grown stronger; the global system leadership, alongside our global operations—while at the same of rules and institutions that Atlantic Council founders helped friends and allies, to shape time including essays on what we establish after World War II is in the future. consider five over-arching and question; and it remains uncertain defining challenges of our times. This mandate underpins all efforts what global leadership role the across our twelve programs and We confront the return of major United States will play after presiding over a seventy-year centers, driving the purposeful, power confrontation and potentially period of extraordinary progress and prosperity. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, South Korea, April 27, 2018. Korea Summit Press Pool/Pool via Reuters. Beyond that, we have entered an era of unprecedented technological change—the Fourth Industrial Revolution—that will influence all other challenges and touch all aspects of human existence, societal development, and international affairs. The United States and allies around the world have seldom operated in such a dynamic time of political, economic, and societal change and uncertainty. At the Atlantic Council, we view these defining challenges not as reason for despair. We view them as a call to action. We believe these issues will define the future of the international system and have developed strategies that harness the breadth and depth of Atlantic Council expertise—through our work with partners across the globe—to build achievable 2 ATLANTIC COUNCIL 231180_text.indd 2 4/23/19 2:59 PM INTRODUCTION solutions to address them. The statesman Dean Acheson, among the Atlantic Council’s founders, wrote the famous book about the post-war period, “Present at the Creation.” Unless we can muster the creativity and political will to be there “at the reinvention,” we risk becoming witnesses to the erosion of this order. Never in recent memory has our work or our mission been as important or as urgent. The Atlantic Council is seizing this as a rallying moment for our community, recognizing that we live at a historic inflection point as defining as the end of World War I or II, when the decisions taken by that era’s leaders had generational consequences. To quote the late Senator John U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) listens as he is introduced at a campaign rally in McCain, whom we honored Fayetteville, North Carolina October 28, 2008. REUTERS/Brian Snyder. posthumously last year with the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen on-the-ground solutions and Council remains anchored in our Award, “Glory belongs to the act strategies to create a more free, enduring mission even as we of being constant to something secure and prosperous world. focus on shaping the future. In greater than yourself, to a cause, the face of great challenges, this to your principles, to the people We are indebted to those in annual report underscores how on whom you rely and who rely on our community who provide us our community is buoyed by the you in return.” wisdom and support. You will conviction that we have the talent, find our generous partners listed imagination, and expertise to Our twelve programs and centers on our honor roll of contributors contribute to a better world. are driven by the conviction that on pages 84 and 85. Above all, if we work together constructively, we thank the Atlantic Council Onward and upward, we can shape and secure a Board of Directors, International peaceful and prosperous future. Advisory Board, individual and corporate members, partners, and Through the ideas we generate, staff. the papers we write, the future leaders we develop, and the At a time when so much of what John F.W. Rogers Frederick Kempe communities we build, the Atlantic once seemed foundational is Chairman President & CEO Council shapes policy choices, thrown into question, the Atlantic Atlantic Council Atlantic Council SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN “GLORY BELONGS TO THE ACT OF BEING CONSTANT TO SOMETHING GREATER THAN YOURSELF, TO A CAUSE, TO YOUR PRINCIPLES, TO THE PEOPLE ON WHOM YOU RELY AND WHO RELY ON YOU IN RETURN.” 2018 / 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 3 231180_text.indd 3 4/24/19 9:33 AM THEMATIC PROGRAMS 4 ATLANTIC COUNCIL 231180_text.indd 4 4/22/19 8:23 AM THEMATIC PROGRAMS 6 Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security 10 Global Energy Center 14 Millennium Leadership Program 18 Global Business & Economics Program 24 Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience 28 Digital Forensic Research Lab 32 Atlantic Council IN TURKEY PHOTO: Rohingya refugees on a fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne 2018 / 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 5 231180_text.indd 5 4/22/19 8:23 AM SCOWCROFT CENTER FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY SCOWCROFT CENTER FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY The Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security (SCSS) works to develop sustainable, nonpartisan strategies to address the most important security challenges facing the United States and the world. The center honors General Brent strategy work. Its effort to The Global Innovation Scowcroft’s legacy of service and revitalize, adapt, and defend the Sweepstakes: A Quest to Win the embodies his ethos of nonpartisan rules-based international order Future, focused on how emerging commitment to the cause of was written up in the Economist technologies will remake the security, support for US leadership and will be featured in the Atlantic global order and strategies for how in cooperation with allies and Council Strategy Paper series. the United States can retain its partners, and dedication to the The center’s Strategy Consortium innovative edge. mentorship of the next generation continued to receive requests Turning to Europe, transatlantic of leaders. The Scowcroft Center for advice and engagement security work remains the beating currently houses five major from senior government officials heart of the Atlantic Council. The practice areas: the Foresight, responsible for strategy, while Scowcroft Center planned and Strategy, and Risks Initiative; the Scowcroft Center personnel executed “NATO Engages” on the Transatlantic Security Initiative; contributed directly to a number sidelines of the NATO Summit. The the Asia Security Initiative; the of US national strategy efforts center also hosted US National Middle East Security Initiative; and behind the scenes. Security Advisor H.R. McMaster the Cyber Statecraft Initiative. It and the Baltic Presidents for a also houses the growing Emergent Good strategy requires strategic major event and speech that Futures Lab. foresight, and in support of that objective, the Scowcroft Center made worldwide news. In 2018 and 2019, the Scowcroft developed two forward-looking The Asia program established Center further solidified its role publications.