Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin is co-founder and editor-in-chief of American Purpose.
He is former President/CEO of the London-based Legatum Institute. Gedmin served for four years as President/CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, headquartered in Prague, prior to which he served as President/CEO of the Aspen Institute in Berlin. Previously, he was Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and Executive Director of the New Atlantic Initiative.
Gedmin is the author/editor of several books on Germany and European security. He also served as co-executive producer for two major PBS documentaries: “The Germans, Portrait of a New Nation” (1995) and “Spain’s 9/11 and the Challenge of Radical Islam in Europe” (2007). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on several advisory boards, including the Institute for State Effectiveness, the Justice for Journalists Foundation, the Tocqueville Conversations, and the Institute for Current World Affairs. Together with former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norm Eisen, Gedmin is co-chair of the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group, hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Natan Sharansky on Navalny and Keeping Hope Alive
Soviet-era dissident Natan Sharansky on Russia today, Putin's hostage-taking spree, and his nine years in Soviet prisons.
No Unimportant Lives
Alexei Navalny and Elena Bonner were cut from different cloth. An update on Putin's new prisoners.
Merciless Iran
Determined people find themselves in an extraordinary test of wills.
Crimea Realities
Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole, culture wars, and missed stories.
Inspiration—and More Barbarism—in Belarus
On February 25, Belarus will hold parliamentary elections. Don’t hold your breath for fair, free—or peaceful. Connect dots across the region and you see a bigger, alarming picture.
Alsu, the KGB—and One Hundred Days Detained
The brutal tactics of the Soviet KGB are alive again in Putin's Russia.
What We Keep Fighting For
It’s important to remember Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. And Bayard Rustin’s.
Putin's Hostages
A year ago, the Russians released Brittney Griner. Another American hostage now—Alsu Kurmasheva—points to a trend and bigger problem.
