Jeffrey Gedmin

Jeffrey Gedmin is a signatory of the Project for the New American Century and sits on the Council for a Community of Democracies. As of February 2007 he is also director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

In December 2001, Dr. Gedmin succeeded Professor Catherine McArdle Kelleher as Director of Aspen Institute Berlin, a post which he held until March 2007. Dr. Gedmin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative, a coalition of international institutes, politicians, leading journalists, and business executives. The NAI is dedicated to helping revitalize and expand the Atlantic community of democracies.

Dr. Gedmin has written prolifically on foreign and defense issues, including NATO, U.S.-E.U. relations, missile defense and Balkan security. He is the author of The Hidden Hand: Gorbachev and the Collapse of East Germany (1992). He was executive editor and producer of the award winning PBS television program, The Germans, Portrait of a New Nation. He is the editor of European Integration and the American Interest (AEI Press, 1997). He is also a frequent contributor to The Financial Times and the neocon-run Weekly Standard. Dr. Gedmin holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University (ibid.).

Affiliations

• Aspen Institute Berlin
• Atlantic Partnership, panellist
• Committee on the Present Danger
• U.S. Committee on NATO
• Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf, signatory to letter.
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Director.