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.
Gestures
Resisting dictatorship involves every small act of independence, opposition, and liberal dissent.
Culture, Tyranny, and Universal Values
What dictators loathe, we should nourish. This lesson lies at the heart of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s legendary story and mission today.
Cultural Freedom in Mitteleuropa
In this corner of Europe, music and politics have always mixed.
Misery in Minsk
In Alexander Lukashenko’s Orwellian world, independent journalism is extremism.
Deals with Devils
Deals with the devil haunt politics, music, and literature.
Summertime
In Riga, Russia, roots, and Gershwin all come to mind.
