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 photo, Frederick Kempe Fred Kempe is the President and CEO of the Atlantic Council. Under his leadership since 2007, the Council has expanded its work through regional centers spanning the globe and through centers focused on topics ranging from international security and energy to global trade and next-generation mentorship.Before joining the Council, Mr. Kempe was a prize-winning editor and reporter at the *Wall Street Journal* for more than 25 years. In New York, he served as Assistant Managing Editor, International, and columnist. Prior to that, he was the longest-serving editor and Associate Publisher of the *Wall Street Journal Europe,*running the global *Wall Street Journal’s*editorial operations in Europe and the Middle East.In 2002, *The European Voice*, a leading publication following EU affairs, selected Mr. Kempe as one of the 50 most influential Europeans, and as one of the four leading journalists in Europe. At the *Wall Street Journal*, he served as a roving correspondent based out of London; as a Vienna Bureau Chief covering Eastern Europe and East-West Affairs; as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Washington,DC; and as the paper’s first Berlin Bureau Chief following the unification of Germany and collapse of the Soviet Union.As a reporter, he covered events including the rise of Solidarity in Poland and the growing Eastern European resistance to Soviet rule; the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and his summit meetings with President Ronald Reagan; the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon in the 1980s; and the American invasion of Panama. He also covered the unification of Germany and the collapse of Soviet Communism.He is the author of four books. The most recent, *Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth*, was a New York Times Best Seller and a National Best Seller. Published in 2011, it has subsequently been translated into 14 different languages.Mr. Kempe is a graduate of the University of Utah and has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a member of the International Fellows program in the School of International Affairs. He won the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism’s top alumni achievement award and the University of Utah’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.For his commitment to strengthening the transatlantic alliance, Mr. Kempe has been decorated by the presidents of Poland and Germany and by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.Mr. Kempe is also the author of the Atlantic Council’s *Inflection Points* newsletter, a weekly analysis on the global challenges facing the United States and how to tackle them.
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