Wilson Center Annual Report, 2012

54 Pages·2012·5.42 MB·English

WOODROW WILSON
INTERNATIONAL CENTER
FOR SCHOLARS
YOUR INVESTMENT
AT WORK
WOODROW PHILANTHROPIC OPPORTUNITIES BEYOND THE BELTWAY
The Center offers several opportunities The Center offers engagement opportunities
for philanthropic engagement. The outside of Washington through its
WILSON
WilsonAlliances program extends Wilson Woodrow Wilson Awards Dinners. These
Center affiliation to its corporate members, awards for public service and corporate
INTERNATIONAL
providing them with discussions and citizenship honor distinguished U.S. and
briefings and opportunities to meet with foreign citizens who have made “lasting,
CENTER leading policy- and newsmakers. For profound contributions to society,” and
individuals, membership in The Wilson 2011 dinners were held in Washington,
Council enables them to support the New York, Houston, Denver, Milwaukee,
FOR
Center’s commitment to nonpartisan Baltimore, Louisville, Mexico City, and
discourse and research. Both Montreal. Dinners not only recognize
SCHOLARS WilsonAlliances and Wilson Council corporate and civic leaders, they also help
members receive exclusive invitations to to spread the Center’s commitment to
YOUR the thrice-annual “Day at the Wilson nonpartisan policy research and dialogue
Center” policy conference, the beyond the Beltway.
2011-launched “National Conversation”
INVESTMENT
series, and the Hamilton Lecture Series. FOUNDATION SUPPORT
Recent prominent guests have included The support of foundation partners has
AT Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, been essential to the Wilson Center’s
New York Times columnist Thomas success since it was founded in 1968. In
WORK Friedman, U.S. Senator John Kerry, IMF 2011, grants from Carnegie Corporation of
Managing Director Christine Lagarde, New York, the John D. and Catherine T.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Adm. MacArthur Foundation, and the Alfred P.
The Woodrow Wilson Center Michael Mullen, who inaugurated the Sloan Foundation advanced policy
Hamilton Lecture Series, and Dr. Henry research on such topical issues as:
is committed to repositioning
Kissinger, who headlined “Afghanistan: Is U.S.-Mexico migration, American
the political debate from
There a Regional Endgame?” as part of the economic competitiveness, and building
the extremes to the center, National Conversation series. state capacity in the developing world.
promoting opportunities for The year also recorded the forging of new
Additionally, members-only programs, relationships with The Ewing Marion
bipartisanship, and advancing
such as the “Impact on Business” Kauffman Foundation, the Richard
ahead-of-the-curve research on
roundtable series and the “Behind the Lounsbery Foundation, and the Stavros
critical issues. To do this, support Headlines” newsmaker series, give Niarchos Foundation. The Center is
from individuals, corporations, members of the Alliances and Council appreciative of the partnerships it has built
insights into the day’s top issues. At with these and other institutions, and
and foundations is essential.
private meetings, members interact with thanks them for their continuing
Through their investment,
leading public officials, foreign dignitaries, investment.
partners help shape the Center’s and Center analysts to discuss important
research while gaining behind- world concerns, such as U.S. national As the nation’s living memorial to
security, the global financial crisis, the President Wilson, the Center is a private/
the-scenes insight into leading-
Middle East peace process, and the public partnership and, like all presidential
edge domestic and foreign policy
emergence of China as a superpower. memorials, receives a congressional
issues. appropriation. Each year, the Center raises
two-thirds of its annual budget, most of
which comes from the private sector. To
assure its success, the Center must
For more information related to support continue to expand and diversify its
for the Wilson Center, please go to funding from the private sector.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/support.
Fiscal Year 2011 (October 1, 2010 –
September 30, 2011)
SHAPING THE FUTURE
Corporate, individual, and foundation
partners know their support of the Center
positions them at the forefront of the day’s
most meaningful issues. They also know
their investment in the Wilson Center
contributes to the insightful analysis, civil
discourse, and leading-edge research for
which the Center is known. Sustaining and
expanding these partnerships is an
essential goal of the Center.
YOUR PHILANTHROPY
SUPPORTS...
At the Houston Woodrow Wilson Awards Dinner in February 2011, (from left to right) Dinner Co-Chair Joseph Dilg and
· Interns, the scholars of the next his wife, Susie; honorees L.E. and Ginny Simmons; honorees Cynthia and Anthony Petrello; and Dinner Co-Chair Jeffery
Hildebrand and his wife, Mindy.
generation
· Development and the use of
emerging and traditional media to
broaden and diversify audiences
for Center programming
· Conferences and meetings
on regions and issues around
the globe that bring expert
perspectives to key decison-
makers
· The dissemination of The Wilson
Center’s work to a global public
· Endowments that help secure a
solid future
The October 2011 Day at the Wilson Center culminates with dinner hosted at the residence of the Swiss ambassador.
At center, Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman and Wilson Council member Tobia Mercuro.
Admiral Michael Mullen, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers the first in the Lee Hamilton Lecture Series on
Democracy and Civil Discourse.
CONTRIBUTIONS $1 MILLION AND ABOVE The Horace W. Goldsmith Grant Capital Management
Kathryn W. Davis † Foundation Grupo Lala
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation † Grosvenor Capital Jeffery Hildebrand
AND GRANTS U.S. Agency for International Management, L.P. IAC
Development † The Hearst Corporation Interfarma
U.S. Department of State † IFES Kyungnam University The Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Fiscal Year 2011 (October 1, 2010 – Japan Foundation Center for Japan Bank for International
$250,000 TO $999,999 Global Partnership Cooperation
September 30, 2011)
BAE Systems † Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation JCDecaux
Carnegie Corporation of Krull Corporation Johns Hopkins University and
New York † Richard Lounsbery Foundation Johns Hopkins School of
John D. and Catherine T. Lubar & Co. Incorporated and Medicine
MacArthur Foundation † the Lubar Family Foundation, Inc. Ted and Mary Kellner
The Martin Foundation † Marathon Oil Corporation † The Kenbe Foundation
Norwegian Ministry of Moët Hennessy Muslim Lakhani †*
Foreign Affairs † National Defense University Law Offices of Peter G.
United Airlines, Inc.* † Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation Angelos, P.C.
United Nations Development PepsiCo, Inc. Los Alamos National Laboratory
Programme Petrello Family Foundation Macy’s Bloomingdales
Raizen Combustiveis S.A Major League Baseball
$100,000 TO $249,999 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond † Maricom Systems, Inc.
The AES Corporation Wayne Rogers † Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club
Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc. The Sasakawa Peace Foundation Ministère des relations
Anonymous † The Search Charitable internationales du Québec
Blue Moon Fund † Foundation Limited Morgan Stanley
Javier R. Bours Almada Raja Sidawi † National Science Foundation
Chevron Corporation † The Virginia and L.E. Simmons PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
EngenderHealth, Inc. Family Foundation Power Corporation of Canada
Fellowship Fund for Pakistan † Charles Simonyi Fund for Rabobank
Estate of Joseph H. Flom Arts & Sciences and Susan RBS International
The Ford Foundation † Hutchison† Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Gerdau, SA Smith Richardson Foundation Rockefeller Financial
The Honorable Joseph B. and Taipei Economic and Cultural San Luis Corporación, S.A. de C.V.
Alma Gildenhorn† Representative Office Fayez Sarofim
The William and Flora Hewlett Tsakopoulos Hellenic Foundation Shell Oil Company
Foundation U.S. Institute of Peace † The Lester and Sue Smith
JCPenney Company Vermont Law School Foundation
Korea Foundation Xinyu Hengdeli Social Science Research Council
Gerry Lenfest Texas Children’s Hospital
Leon Levy Foundation $25,000 TO $49,999 Tinker Foundation, Inc.
Merck & Co., Inc. Allen & Company TMK IPSCO
Nabors Industries, Ltd. Steven D. Alvis United Nations Population Fund
Open Society Institute Andrade Gutierrez, S.A. U.S. Chamber of Commerce
David M. Rubenstein Anonymous † R. Graham Whaling
Springs Global US AXA Foundation The Whiting-Turner Contracting
The Starr Foundation Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Company
Stewart & Stevenson, LLC Nagelberg LLP
Swedish Ministry for BBVA Bancomer S.A. de C.V. $10,000 TO $24,999
Foreign Affairs † The Blackstone Charitable Actuant Corporation
Foundation Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer &
$50,000 TO $99,999 Blavatnik Family Foundation Feld L.L.P.
Andean Development BMO Financial Group Amegy Bank of Texas
top: Naming opportunities for facilities and spaces Corporation Brown Capital Management American Family Insurance
(the Wilson Memorial Hallway is pictured), Banco Itaú BBA Brown-Forman Corporation Company
programs, series, and positions are offered to The Boeing Company † Bucyrus International, Inc. Amgen, Inc.
Wilson Center donors so they may designate Bunge Limited Camargo Corrêa The Ansary Foundation
support for their particular areas of interest and be
Canadian Association of Caterpillar, Inc. The Anschutz Corporation
recognized accordingly with naming and duration
Petroleum Producers Colony Capital Laura and John Arnold
that are mutually agreeable.
CH2M HILL Condé Nast Foundation
The Cobb Family Crane Foundation John S. Arnoldy
middle: February Day at the Wilson Center Lunch
Foundation Inc. † Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Asset Management Company
Speakers: Wilson Council President Sam Donaldson;
Barry Jackson, Chief of Staff to Speaker of the House Council of State Governments DaVita Aurora Health Care
John Boehner; and David Krone, Chief of Staff to Jamal H. Daniel DFS Group Baird Foundation, Inc.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Embassy of Mexico DLA Piper LLP Banco Nacional de México, S.A.
Embraer The Honorable Melvyn J. and Berg & Androphy
bottom: Former Center President Lee Hamilton, Exxon Mobil Corporation † Suellen Estrin * Best Buy Co., Inc.
and his wife Nancy, are joined by Center Chairman Freeport-McMoRan Copper & European Commission Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Joe Gildenhorn and Mrs. Alma Gildenhorn before Gold Foundation Judi Flom Bookout Family Foundation
a reception hosted at the Embassy of the People’s Gagosian Gallery Inc. James C. Flores Eli & Edythe L. Broad Foundation
Republic of China at the culmination of the October
Goldman Sachs & Co. Brown Investment Advisory
2010 Day at the Wilson Center.
Mr. and Mrs. Owsley Brown II Debbie Dreisman Unilever Ginny and Irwin Edlavitch The Robbins Family Foundation
Philip J. Burguieres Nuhad E. Karaki UnitedHealth Group El Pomar Foundation George A. Roche
Bladen J. Burns Kekst and Company University of Denver Environmental Law Institute Paul Rodzianko
Campbell Family Foundation † Incorporated University of Louisville Dr. Mark Epstein Brian Rogers
CEMEX Kindred Healthcare Operating, Inc. University of Wisconsin Ernst & Young LLP The Ben and Esther Rosenbloom
The Charlesmead Foundation, Inc. Kraft Foods Foundation Esseks, Hefter & Angel, LLP Foundation, Inc.
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Lakeview Equity Partners UWM Foundation, Inc. Jonathan Fairbanks Saks Incorporated
Hamilton LLP The Honorable Eugene K. Lawson Vinson & Elkins LLP Fancy Hill Foundation Sonja and Michael Saltman
Colombian Coffee Federation The Honorable Raymond Learsy Terry Wakefield Josh E. Fidler Ignacio E. Sanchez
Complete Energy Services, LLC and Melva Bucksbaum Roz and Marvin H. Weiner FirstBank Steven E. Schmidt, Esq.
The Coneway Family Foundation LG&E and KU Energy Services and Family Foundation, Inc. Norman Freidkin William Seanor
Connect US Fund † Company The Western Union Company The Funger Foundation The Shelter Foundation, Inc.
Crédit Agricole James E. Lieber Wing Aviation Charter Diane and Charles Gallagher Small Bone Innovations
Curtis & Windham Architects, Inc. Mary Pat Link and John D. Strohm Services LLC General Electric Company Southwest Generation
De Beers, Inc. Michael C. Linn Wisconsin Energy Foundation, Inc. Michael Glosserman Stewart Title Guaranty Company
The Desjardins Group Lumina Foundation for Education Yum! Brands, Inc. Golding Foundation Fund Edward St. John
Sam and Jan Donaldson Beth Madison and Madison Leo and Judith Zickler Dr. Margaret Goodman Roger and Susan Stone Family
Ruth L. Dugan Charitable Foundation, Inc. Barbara and Robert Hall Foundation
F. Samuel Eberts III The Honorable Frederic V. and $5,000 TO $9,999 The Frederic C. Hamilton Diane Tachmindji
Educational Ventures Inc. Marlene Malek Elias F. Aburdene Family Foundation Margaret E. Taplin
El Paso Energy Corporation Manpower International, Inc. Dr. Besma I. Adham Hawthorn PNC Family Wealth Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation
Embassy of Canada Marek Family Foundation AEGON Transamerica Foundation Haynes and Boone, LLP Louis B. Thalheimer
Everett Smith Group Marquette University A la Vieille Russie, Inc. HealthONE Norma Kline Tiefel
Foundation, Ltd. Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados Andrew M. Alexander John Hess Annie Totah
Fator Securities LLC Marshall & Ilsley Corporation American Continental Group, Inc. Hines Interests Limited Trimpa Group, LLC
The John E. Fetzer Institute, Inc. Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, American Jewish Committee Partnership Tuchman Family Foundation
Finser Corporation Mattos Muriel Kestener Anadarko Petroleum Laurence E. Hirsch U.S. Bank
Fiserv, Inc. Advogados Corporation The Holthouse Foundation ViaNovo, L.P.
FIS Foundation, Inc. McGriff, Seibels & Williams, Inc. Anonymous (2) for Kids Anna Lee and Andrew Waite
Joseph H. Flom Donald F. McLellan APCO Worldwide Terry Huffington Western Kentucky University
Fort Lewis College Vanda McMurtry and David C. Baldwin Louis W. Hutchison, Jr. and Environ Foundation †
The Honorable Barbara H. Davis & Harman LLP Baltimore Community Osagie Imasogie Winning Spirit, LLC
Franklin, Barbara Franklin The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Institute of International Donald R. Wolfensberger
Enterprises and Washington Foundation Brian E. Becker Education Xcel Energy Services, Inc.
Management Corporation Megacable Comunicaciones, Bernstein Family Foundation, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. W. Scott Jarriel Harold and Nancy Zirkin
Foundation S.A. de C.V. The Honorable Stuart A. Bernstein J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC Foundation
Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C. MET-MEX Peñoles, S.A. de C.V. Boise State University Jefferies & Company, Inc. Edward Zore
Peter D. Galitztine MillerCoors Bombardier, Inc. JWG Management Ltd.
William F. Galtney Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Jessica A. Bronfein Maha Kaddoura * In-kind gift
Donald E. Garcia and Lincoln Corporation Brownstein Hyatt Farber The Kayser Foundation † Multi-year Commitment
Financial Group Foundation Kathryn Mosbacher Wheeler Schreck, LLP E. Robert Kent, Jr.
Sander and Tracy Gerber and Mosbacher Energy Joy S. Burns Richard L. Kramer
Google México Company Amelia Caiola-Ross Lazard Freres & Co., LLC
Government of Alberta Motorola, Inc. Catterton Management Legg Mason & Co., LLC
Groupe Galeries Lafayette National Council for Eurasian Company, LLC The Legum Foundation
Gruma, S.A.B. de C.V. and East European Research The Chaney Foundation LG Electronics
Grupo FEMSA Neiman Marcus Charter Manufacturing The Linbeck Family Charitable
Grupo Nacional Provincial S.A.B. Northwestern Mutual Company Foundation Inc. Foundation
Raymond A. Guenter Oil States International, Inc. C.L. Glazer & Company, Inc. Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
The Honorable Carlos M. Brenda and Paul Pattillo Colby College The Henry Luce Foundation
Gutierrez Payne and Dolan, Inc. The Honorable William T. The M&T Charitable Foundation
Hammes Company Peñoles Metals and Coleman, Jr. B. Thomas Mansbach
Edward L. Hardin and Burr & Chemicals Inc. Colorado School of Mines Anne McCarthy
Forman LLP Elizabeth and Gary Petersen Columbine Health Plan Lydia Funger McClain
Harley-Davidson, Inc. Pioneer Natural Resources Constance R. Caplan McLarty Associates
Harman Family Foundation Company Crowell & Moring, LLP J. Kenneth Menges, Jr.
The Honorable Anthony S. Procter & Gamble James and Molly Crownover Merrick & Company
Harrington Ratiu Family Charitable Family Foundation Robert E. Meyerhoff and
Russell & Diana Hawkins Family Foundation The Haron Dahan Foundation, Inc. Rheda Becker
Foundation Rockwell Automation Richard and Rosalee C. Davison Robert J. Morris
Thomas O. and Claudia Rostik Group Foundation, Inc. Ralph J. Nagel
Henteleff B. Francis Saul II Anthony Deluca Oakwood Homes
Hipico Coapexpan, S.A. de C.V. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP The Denver Post* Morris W. Offit
Hunt Consolidated, Inc. Statoil DePaul University PCL Construction
May Chao and Jeffrey Hwang Stites & Harbison, PLLC Jack Dinerstein The Piton Foundation
Johnson Controls Hans G. Storr Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. Ravinia Holdings LLC
JPMorgan Chase & Co. William and Lindy Street Donner Canadian Foundation RE/MAX, LLC.
Iraq Foundation Sun Capital Partners, Inc. Elizabeth and Richard Dubin Daniel L. Ritchie
Irgens Development Partners, LLC Kent J. Thiry Foundation Drs. Jayne and Carlos Rivera
Frank F. Islam and Stephanie and Brad Tucker Ralph Eads Edwin Robbins and
WILSON GLOBAL PARTNER Cisco Systems, Inc.
The AES Corporation Colony Capital
Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc. Condé Nast
ALLIANCES
AT&T Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
BAE Systems DaVita
BlackRock DFS Group
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce DLA Piper LLP
The Coca-Cola Company Dogus Holdings A.S.
Coteminas Goldman Sachs & Co.
Exxon Mobil Corporation Grupo ALFA
Gerdau, SA Grant Capital Management
JCPenney Company Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Merck & Co., Inc. Hyatt Corporation
Morgan Stanley IAC
Nabors Industries, Ltd. Interfarma
United Airlines, Inc. Japan Bank for International Cooperation
JCDecaux
INTERNATIONAL PARTNER Macy’s Bloomingdales
The Boeing Company Major League Baseball
Bunge Limited Maricom Systems, Inc.
CH2M HILL PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
Embraer Rabobank
Far East Consortium RBS International
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. Rockefeller Financial
Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P. San Luis Corporación, S.A.B. de C.V.
Hang Lung Properties, Ltd. The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
The Hearst Corporation
Krull Corporation MEMBER
Moët Hennessy Allen & Company
PepsiCo, Inc. Amgen, Inc.
Pharmaceutical Research and Asset Management Company
Manufacturers Banamex
Power Corporation of Canada Best Buy Co., Inc.
Raízen Combustiveis S.A. CEMEX
Xinyu Hengdeli Chevron Corporation
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP
PATRON PARTNER Colombian Coffee Federation
Allstate Insurance Company De Beers, Inc.
Andrade Gutierrez, S.A. Finser Corporation
Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Google México
Nagelberg LLP Gruma, S.A.B. de C.V.
BBVA Bancomer S.A. de C.V. Grupo BAL
top: Lee McIntire, Chairman and CEO of CH2M
HILL, speaks in Denver after receiving the Award BMO Financial Group Grupo FEMSA
for Corporate Citizenship. Brown Capital Management Grupo Lala
Brown-Forman Corporation Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
middle: The December 2010 Impact on Business
roundtable lunch entitled, “What Does the New Camargo Corrêa JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Congress’s Taxation and Regulation Mean for Caterpillar, Inc. Kraft Foods
Business?” brought together policy experts and
Marathon Oil Corporation
members of the WilsonAlliances corporate program
who exchanged perspectives. Motorola, Inc.
Pioneer Natural Resources Company
bottom: Douglas Spelman, Deputy Director of
Procter & Gamble
the Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and
the United States, speaks with WilsonAlliances Shell Oil Company
member Carloyn Brehm of Procter & Gamble Statoil
and Wilson Council member Marilyn Harris of
Unilever
Marathon Oil Company.
UnitedHealth Group
The Western Union Company
WILSON SAM DONALDSON, PRESIDENT PATRON’S CIRCLE
Elias F. Aburdene
AMBASSADOR’S CIRCLE Stuart A. Bernstein
COUNCIL
Steven D. Alvis James D. Bindenagel
Charles E. Cobb Melva Bucksbaum
Joseph H. Flom, Esq.* Amelia Caiola-Ross
Judi Flom Mark Chandler
Sander R. Gerber William T. Coleman, Jr.
Joseph B. and Alma Gildenhorn Elizabeth Dubin
Raymond A. Guenter Ginny and Irwin Edlavitch
Carlos M. Gutierrez Mark Epstein
Jane Harman Barbara Hackman Franklin
Susan Hutchison Norman Freidkin
Frank F. Islam Morton Funger
Willem Kooyker Bruce S. Gelb
Markos Kounalakis Charles L. Glazer
Muslim Lakhani Michael Glosserman
James Lieber Margaret Goodman
Linda B. Mercuro Robert S. Hall, Jr.
Tobia G. Mercuro Osagie Imasogie
Wayne Rogers Maha Kaddoura
David M. Rubenstein Stafford T. Kelly
Ignacio E. Sanchez Richard L. Kramer
Raja W. Sidawi Raymond Learsy
William A. Slaughter Genevieve Lynch
Diana Davis Spencer B. Thomas Mansbach
Michael Waldorf Anne McCarthy
R. Graham Whaling Lydia Funger McClain
Judith and Leo Zickler Thomas F. McLarty III
J. Kenneth Menges, Jr.
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Jamie Merisotis
Cyrus A. Ansary Robert J. Morris
Ruth Dugan Stuart H. Newberger
F. Samuel Eberts III Jeanne L. Phillips
Suellen and Melvyn J. Estrin Edwin Robbins
Donald E. Garcia Michael Saltman
Edward L. Hardin, Jr. Steven E. Schmidt, Esq.
Marilyn A. Harris William C. Seanor
Claudia and Tom Henteleff David Slack
Laurence E. Hirsch Juan Suarez
Nuhad Karaki Diane Tachmindji
Christopher J. Kennan Norma Kline Tiefel
top: In Baltimore, (from left to right) Award
recipients Shale Stiller and Judge Ellen Heller, Beth Madison Annie and Sami Totah
Wilson Center Board Chair Joseph Gildenhorn, Marlene and Frederic V. Malek Anthony G. Viscogliosi
Award recipients Sylvia and Eddie Brown, and
Donald F. McLellan Nancy M. Zirkin
Wilson Council President Sam Donaldson.
Vanda B. McMurtry
middle: Council President Sam Donaldson engages B. Francis Saul II (Gifts received between October 1, 2010 and
Alice Rivlin and Douglas Holtz-Eakin on the U.S. September 30, 2011)
Kathryn Mosbacher Wheeler
fiscal crisis at the February Day at the Wilson
Center. *deceased
bottom: Senator John Kerry (D-MA) speaks
to Wilson Center supporters at a dinner at the
Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in May.
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MESSAGE Dear Friend and Colleague:
The Wilson Center is our nation’s economic well-being and security;
FROM THE
living memorial to President and reaching out to new audiences
Woodrow Wilson, our only Ph.D. through digital platforms and social
DIRECTOR,
President, whose work to bridge media. We have also enhanced
scholarship and policymaking and collaboration among the Center’s
PRESIDENT whose vision of international many programs and scholars,
cooperation, continue to inspire encouraging joint programming and
today. research.
AND CEO
We live in an uncertain era shaped The Center’s unique identity sets it
by an unprecedented pro- apart from other institutions and
democracy wave in the Middle East, positions us to help direct scholars
global economic insecurity, and policymakers toward answers to
heightened political polarization at the toughest questions.
home, and the emergence of new
geopolitical players worldwide. The • WE DIG DEEPLY INTO THE
Center’s role—tackling critical global ISSUES BEFORE US—examining
challenges by providing an essential the historical and cultural context
bridge between policymaking and and airing a diversity of views
actionable ideas drawn from the before providing thoughtful policy
world’s finest research, analysis, and options.
“We live in an age nonpartisan dialogue—has never
been so important. • WE ARE A TRULY
disturbed, confused,
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bewildered, afraid
To meet these challenges, we have ORGANIZATION—providing
of its own forces, in sharpened our focus—as the new unparalleled research
search not merely of home to the Council of Women opportunities to more than 150
World Leaders, the only group of its resident scholars from around the
its road but even of
kind, composed of 47 sitting and world each year.
its direction.”
former female heads of state and
WOODROW WILSON government; launching a successful • WE ARE NONPARTISAN—
National Conversations series on creating a safe political space for
issues central to America’s policymakers, practitioners,
researchers, the private sector, and
NGO community to think about
and discuss issues, free from spin.
The accompanying folder provides
an overview of our work. I hope you
will review it, and I invite you to join
us as we move toward excellence
and relevance.
Jane Harman
Director, President and CEO
THE OUR VISION WHAT WE DO
Tackling Global Challenges through The Center is home to seventeen
Independent Research, Open programs that address all the
WILSON
Dialogue & Actionable Ideas regions of the world and the most
pressing global challenges. These
CENTER
OUR MISSION programs lead ongoing research,
As a living memorial to the 28th provide a safe space for dialogue,
IN BRIEF President of the United States, the and develop new practical ideas for
Wilson Center tackles critical global policy that can help address critical
challenges by providing an essential global challenges.
bridge between policymaking and
actionable ideas drawn from the Whether suggesting ways of
world’s finest research, analysis, and improving U.S. relations with China,
nonpartisan dialogue. Russia, Mexico, or Canada; finding
ways to improve aid to Pakistan,
Established by Congress in 1968, strengthen rule of law in Latin
the Center builds upon President America, build long-lasting peace in
Wilson’s legacy by linking parts of Africa, or strengthen
scholarship and public policy, and women’s leadership in the Middle
his vision of international cooperation East; bringing together security and
for the greater good still inspires us environmental communities to
today. We at the Wilson Center develop new paradigms for
“The man who
convene “the thinkers and the managing scarce water resources; or
has the time, the
doers”—policymakers, scholars, exploring the policy implications of
discrimination, and business leaders, and NGO voices— synthetic biology or nanotechnology;
the sagacity to collect under the belief that an informed, the Wilson Center is at the forefront
open, and civil dialogue will lead to of developing actionable policy ideas
and comprehend the
improved understanding, drawn from truly nonpartisan
principal facts and the
cooperation, and, ultimately, better discussion and in-depth research.
man who must act public policy.
upon them must draw WHO WE ARE
In addition to our programs, the
near to one another
Center’s resident experts also
and feel that they are
advance the Center’s mission. Each
engaged in a common year, we welcome approximately 150
enterprise.” scholars and fellows from around
the world, giving them the
WOODROW WILSON, A
opportunity to conduct independent
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE and original research in Washington.
ASSOCIATION These leading voices come not only
from academia but also from
government, the community of
practitioners, and from business.
They contribute an unparalleled
intellectual vitality to the Wilson
Center, holding open seminars to
discuss research, contributing their
analysis to the media, and
collaborating with the programs on
conferences and meetings.