Bernard Kouchner to speak at Words Matter! Conference
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Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a distinguished Danish politician who served as the 12th Secretary General of NATO and as Prime Minister of Denmark. He now applies his extensive experience in global affairs to advising corporations and fostering democratic initiatives.
Founder and CEO of a political consultancy and business advisory firm. Focuses on security policy, transatlantic relations, the European Union, Brexit, and economic development.
Founder of a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering democracy and free markets globally. Initiatives include the Copenhagen Democracy Summit and the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity.
Senior advisor within Citi’s European, Middle East and Africa business, with a primary focus on the Nordic region.
Served as a senior advisor.
Served as a non-staff advisor to the President of Ukraine and convened the 'Friends of Ukraine' group to raise international awareness and support for domestic reform.
Senior Network Member at the European Leadership Network.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen was born in Ginnerup, Jutland, Denmark, on January 26, 1953. He completed his baccalaureate at Viborg Katedralskole in 1972 and earned an MSc in Economics from the University of Aarhus in 1978. In the same year, he became a member of the Danish Parliament, representing the Liberal Party. Throughout his political career, Mr. Rasmussen held various governmental and opposition roles, including Minister for Taxation from 1987 to 1992 and Minister for Economic Affairs from 1990 to 1992. As Minister for Economic Affairs, he played a key role in negotiating and signing the Maastricht Treaty, which led to the introduction of the Euro.
From 1992 to 1998, Mr. Rasmussen served as the spokesman for the Liberal Party and concurrently as vice-chairman of the Parliament’s Economic and Political Affairs Committee from 1993 to 1998. He was elected chairman of the Liberal Party’s national organization in 1998. Following the parliamentary elections in 2001, he formed his first government, a coalition of the Liberal Party and the Conservative People’s Party. His government was re-elected in 2005 and 2007. During Denmark’s Presidency of the European Union from July to December 2002, he was instrumental in concluding accession negotiations with 10 candidate countries for EU membership. He held the position of Prime Minister until April 2009, when he was elected as the future NATO Secretary General.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen served as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 12th Secretary General from August 1, 2009, until September 30, 2014. After his tenure at NATO, he founded Rasmussen Global, a political consultancy, and the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing democracy worldwide. He also serves as a senior advisor to Citigroup and previously to the Boston Consulting Group. He has been involved in several international initiatives, including co-chairing an international working group on security guarantees for Ukraine at the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which laid the groundwork for the Kyiv Security Compact and the G7 joint declaration on security guarantees.
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