On April 29, the Atlantic Council will host the 2009 Annual Awards Dinner in Washington, DC, celebrating two anniversaries: the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

On December 3 the Atlantic Council, in collaboration with Asia Society Washington, hosted a panel discussion on the Pakistan economy. This event was the second in a series of events about Pakistan; the first, on October 22, dealt with civil-military relations in the country.

Dr. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), discussed the new report "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World."  The report analyzes the global situation 15 to 20 years in the future, touching on international security, political and social trends, globalization, and other transnational issues. 

His Excellency Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, spoke today at the Atlantic Council as part of the Council's Global Leadership Series.  He praised continuing U.S.-Polish cooperation and solidarity, noting Poland's "traditional affinity" for the U.S.

General David D. McKiernan, the Commanding  General of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan and NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Commander, spoke tonight at the Atlantic Council as part of the Commanders Series organized by the Council's Program on International Security.

The Global Intelligence Forum hosted CIA Director General Michael Hayden at the offices of the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., where he spoke to the Atlantic Council and a live C-SPAN audience on the "State of al Qaeda Today."

Before an audience of senior policy experts and young leaders from accross Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined NATO Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at a forum hosted by the German Atlantic Association and the Atlantic Treaty Association in Berlin, Monday, November 10.

The Council assembled an outstanding delegation of young professionals and students to attend the Atlantic Treaty Association’s 54th General Assembly in November.

The Atlantic Council's Strategic Advisors Group (SAG) hosted a conference reviewing the ability of Euro-Atlantic institutions to deal with future challenges. Policy experts and European diplomats tackled a range of issues with particular emphasis on the current configuration of NATO and the EU. Topics of discussion included reform of NATO, ambitions for the Alliance, and relations between NATO and other multinational institutions and partners such as the EU, the AU and the UN.

Under the auspices of the Council's Young Atlanticist program, Dr Ashraf Ghani led an off-the-record roundtable entitled, 'Fixing Failed States and Securing Afghanistan's Future'. Ghani, Chairman of the Institute for State Effectiveness and former Minister of Finance of Afghanistan, discussed the challenge failed states pose to the global community.