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Ban Ki-moon - Secretary General of the UN
The EastWest Institute is challenging each of us to rethink our international security priorities in order to get things moving again. You know, as we do, that we need specific actions, not words. As your slogan so aptly puts it, you are a ‘think and do tank.’
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James L. Jones - Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Compared to the very formal, scripted world of international negotiations, I found the EastWest Institute's talks to be amazingly refreshing. You can roll up your sleeves, show emotion and speak very directly. I am a big fan of the EastWest Institute; I consider it to be a national asset.
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April Rudin - CEO The Rudin Group
I went to a conference that made me rethink everything that I have ever written, said and advocated about the Internet. I had a visceral, emotional reaction to the information presented at the International Youth and Technology Forum on Digital Citizenship,
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Professor Ali Ahmad Jalali - National Defense University
In the Abu Dhabi Process, Afghans and Pakistanis are no longer trying to score debating points but rather are engaged in a constructive dialogue.
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Byeong Gi Lee - Former President of IEEE Communications Society
The time is urgent for the world's technical and policy leaders to cooperate together to solve the challenges of cyberspace. The EastWest Institute's cybersecurity initiative provides a special opportunity for this cooperation.
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Peter Altabef - Dell Services President
The EastWest Institute has been very active in working with several of the most significant governments in cyberspace to get them to get closer to an agreement ... It's very important work.
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Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi - Foreign Minister of Pakistan
EWI is playing a vital role in promoting regional cooperation in Southwest Asia. We are hugely appreciative of this effort.
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Michael Chertoff - former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
EWI is uniquely situated to deal with this issue of cyber-diplomacy.
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Anatoly Safonov- Special Representative to the President of the Russian Federation
The EastWest Institute, with its strong link to global businesses and experts, is an important factor ... to build such a network leader.... We truly value our cooperation with EWI.
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Miroslav Lajcák, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovakia
I consider [EWI's] innovative proposals to ensuring energy security a valuable contribution to the global discussion on this issue ... I am very pleased that you share your ideas and views with us.
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Condoleezza Rice - Former U.S. Secretary of State, former EWI Director
This Institute is distinguished by its effective multinational dialogue work as well as its success in integrating business in the public policy debate. Over the years, EWI has developed a penchant for thoughtful risk taking both in thinking about issues and bringing together those who disagree. The results achieved since 1980 speak for themselves.
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Martti Ahtisaari - Nobel laureate; Former President of Finland
I marvel at how the EastWest Institute is able to make a difference, consistently. EWI acts as a tugboat frequently called upon by governments and powerful institutions to facilitate communications, mobilize resources and help find solutions. When I finished my presidency, there were many offers for me to work on many good causes. I chose to make my primary affiliation EWI.
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George H.W. Bush - Former President of the United States
What has distinguished the EastWest Institute from others in the field is its track record of combining fresh ideas with practical follow up, which actually makes them useful to those who govern.
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Jan Krzystof Bielecki - Former Prime Minister of Poland, EWI Director Emeritus
After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the Institute showed its unique ability to adjust to change in order to meet the needs and expectations of people in different countries from around the world.
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Mykola Zhulynsky - Former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
The EastWest Institute has seriously contributed to the process of constitution building in Ukraine... right at the most critical point of the constitutional debate in my country.
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George F. Russell, Jr.- Chairman Emeritus of the Russell Investment Group and Russell 20-20, EWI Chairman
It should not be a surprise that EWI attracts so much support from the private sector and foundations as well as the European Union, international institutions and European governments. As a catalyst for change, EWI has a key role to play in helping transition countries to build peaceful democracies and competitive free markets. It is a huge job but working together we can and shall continue to make a difference.
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Viktor Khristenko - Minister of Energy and Industry for the Russian Federation
EWI's study on fiscal transparency produced by its Moscow Center is until now the only effective attempt to examine the geographic breakdown of federal expenditures.
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Emil Constantinescu- Former President of Romania, EWI Director Emeritus
EWI is an outstanding group of personalities united by a global vision of a changed world.
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Jan Krzystof Bielecki - Former Prime Minister of Poland, EWI Director Emeritus
I know of no other institution which has been principled yet dynamic; as determined to stay with issues while willing to take risks and open up the new frontier.
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Kathryn W. Davis - Russia Expert and Philanthropist
The EastWest Institute is one of the hopes of the world.
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George H.W. Bush - Former President of the United States
Few other institutions can approach the EWI track record of practical accomplishment in helping to change the world for the better.
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John D. Negroponte - former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
After the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of the Cold War, contacts between [Russia and American] citizens expanded rapidly in number and diversity. That's a splendid development to which the EastWest Institute has contributed a great deal.
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Jan Krzystof Bielecki - Former Prime Minister of Poland, EWI Director Emeritus
The Institute is unique in its ability to identify key global issues, stimulate confidential dialogue, and foster cooperation between established and emerging powers.
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Lawrence Eagleburger - Former U.S. Secretary of State
I couldn't believe how much tenacity and zeal he [John Mroz] and his colleagues had back in early '80s. They just didn't know the meaning of the word 'no.' But the more we listened to them and watched what they were doing, the more it became obvious that this new Institute just might make a difference... and it has.
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Hans-Dietrich Genscher - Former Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, EWI Chairman Emeritus
This is more than a think-tank - this is an institution that you call in when you want something to change.
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Vaclav Havel - Former President of Czechoslovakia
The EastWest Institute has played an unusually helpful role in our countries by supporting young leaders in everything they do.
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Lajos Bokros - Former Finance Minister of Hungary
The EastWest Institute has done much to promote relations between East and West. I do not believe that an independent institution can change the world against its will. It can, however, generate new ideas, and as the Institute has done so many times, bring different parties together to the negotiation table, or it can ease tensions by initiating open debates. I believe EWI has taken the right approach.
