Bringing corporate decisionmakers and Carnegie experts together to better understand and navigate the technological, economic, security, and political drivers shaping a rapidly changing international landscape.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers more than a Washington perspective. We offer an unprecedented level of regional and national expertise and policy insights from our network of more than 150 experts in twenty countries and six centers—the United States, China, Europe, India, the Middle East, and Russia—around the world.
Through a program of regular member events, closed-group and individual briefings, curated analysis, and VIP forums, Carnegie Corporate Circle members, through their Washington based representatives, have bespoke access to Carnegie experts who are world-renowned scholars and include distinguished diplomats and senior figures from the defense, intelligence, and business worlds. Scholars provide global, independent, and strategic insights across all Carnegie programs. Discover more about Carnegie’s research programs below.
Several of our global centers have similar corporate engagement opportunities. Please contact Melissa Smith for more information.
The Carnegie Asia Program in Washington and Beijing studies disruptive security, governance, and technological risks that threaten peace and growth in the Asia Pacific region.
The Middle East Program combines in-depth local knowledge with incisive comparative analysis to examine economic, sociopolitical, and strategic interests in the Arab world. Through detailed country studies and the exploration of key crosscutting themes, the program, in coordination with the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, provides analysis and recommendations in English and Arabic that are deeply informed by knowledge and views from the region. The program has special expertise in the processes of political, economic, and geopolitical change in Egypt, North Africa, Israel/Palestine, the Gulf, and Iran.
The Geoeconomics and Strategy Program promotes collaboration and debate among experts in national security strategy, foreign policy, and international economic policy, in order to enhance the understanding of the use of economic instruments to promote geopolitical goals; the development of national security strategy and foreign policy to advance national economic interests and the stability of the global economy; and the future of the international political and economic order.
The Technology and International Affairs Program develops strategies to maximize the positive potential of emerging technologies while reducing the risk of large-scale misuse or harm. The program collaborates with technologists, corporate leaders, government officials, and scholars globally to understand and prepare for the implications of advances in cyberspace, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence.
To achieve greater stability and civility in cyberspace, the Cyber Policy Initiative develops strategies and policies in several key areas and promotes international cooperation and norms by engaging key decisionmakers in governments and industry.
The Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program rigorously analyzes the global state of democracy, conflict, and governance; the interrelationship among them; and international efforts to strengthen democracy and governance, reduce violence, and stabilize conflict.
The Russia and Eurasia Program has, since the end of the Cold War, led the field of Eurasian security, including strategic nuclear weapons and nonproliferation, development, economic and social issues, governance, and the rule of law.
The Nuclear Policy Program works to strengthen international security by diagnosing acute nuclear risks, informing debates on solutions, and engaging international actors to effect change. The program’s work spans deterrence, disarmament, nonproliferation, nuclear security, and nuclear energy.
The Europe Program in Washington provides insight and analysis on political and security developments within Europe, transatlantic relations, and Europe’s global role. Working in coordination with Carnegie Europe in Brussels, the program brings together U.S. and European policymakers and experts on the strategic issues facing Europe.
The South Asia focus informs policy debates relating to the region’s security, economy, and political development, from the war in Afghanistan to Pakistan’s internal dynamics to U.S. engagement with India.
The Africa Program, newly established at Carnegie, aims to illuminate a range of policy issues critical to Africa’s future, including issues such as economic growth, technology, democracy, climate change, and relations with external powers.
In these uncertain times and in an increasingly interconnected world, independent and timely expert analysis is needed more than ever. Carnegie Corporate Circle benefits can be tiered to meet the needs of our broad membership.
Group Engagements & Networking Activities | Executive | Standard | Trial* |
CEO/C-suite EngagementExclusive invitation for member’s executive suite to attend Carnegie VIP events | 1 seat | ||
Rapid Response Briefing CallsBriefing calls on breaking news and timely international events and issues | All calls | 3 calls | 1 call |
“Breakfast” BriefingsMonthly small roundtable discussions led by Carnegie scholars on key international issues | 10 briefings | 6 briefings | 1 briefing |
Project InsightsObservation of project-related convenings that inform Carnegie research | 4 meetings | 2 meetings | |
eNewsletter and PodcastSubscription to news and insights on multiple topics | monthly | monthly | |
Exclusive Engagement Opportunities | |||
Leadership ConnectionsExclusive opportunities for member company’s board and executives to engage with Carnegie leadership and senior experts | 1 meeting | ||
Private Expert BriefingsOne-to-one expert briefings in a closed-door setting allowing for in-depth focus on an individual corporation’s international affairs and foreign policy concerns | 4 briefings | 2 briefings | |
Carnegie Center BriefingsSite visit with experts at any of our global centers | 1 visit | 1 visit | |
DigestQuarterly curated collection of papers and reports | 4 sets | 2 sets | |
* Trial period for new prospective members. |
The incoming U.S. administration has made clear that it will focus on domestic priorities – COVID-19, economic recovery (Build Back Better), climate, and racial justice – but each of these priorities has international dimensions, and the incoming administration will be led by a President with long experience in foreign policy. What, then, are the open questions about U.S. engagement with the world in 2021 and beyond, and how will domestic politics in the U.S. affect its foreign policy?
Relations threaten to further sour between the U.S. and Russia after it was recently determined that a hacking, deployed against upward of 250 federal agencies and American corporations, was the work of Russia’s S.V.R intelligence service. With the bilateral New START proliferation treaty, a nuclear arms control agreement between the U.S. and Russia, set to expire in early February 2021 and a new U.S. administration at the helm, what does the future hold for relations between the U.S. and Russia and how will the future of arms control be affected?
The United States is using sanctions more often than ever before and is increasingly relying on sanctions to influence the decisions of foreign governments and their leaders. The question remains if U.S. sanctions policy yields desired policy goals. This conversation will examine the future of U.S. sanctions policy and what we might expect under the new Biden administration specifically in relation to Iran, China, Russia and Venezuela.
The U.S.-China trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic have damaged the cause of free trade, but the nature of trade has been evolving for more than a decade as countries and industries restructure and demand for services expands. This conversation will examine the Biden administration’s need to move away from Trump’s tariff-based approach in confronting China and other nations on economic differences and reevaluate the role for WTO and regional trade agreements.
This conversation will examine the state of democracy around the world, focusing on negative trend lines as well as bright spots and discuss if and to what extent democratic challenges are shared across regions and key drivers of democratic discontent. Speakers will reflect on potential opportunities and innovative strategies to reinvigorate democracy around the world.
Several countries across the Middle East are grappling with uncertainty as 2021 unfolds. Israelis will have faced their fourth election in two years as of March. The Palestinian president is pushing back elections in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, quelling hopes that Palestinians would get to vote for the first time since 2006 and fueling Israeli fears of further conflict with the Islamist group Hamas. Furthermore, Iran, crippling under Washington’s economic sanctions pressure, is set to hold a presidential election in June after President Hassan Rouhani has been in office for two four-year terms. How will relations unfold between these countries and with other countries across the Middle East and how will the United States move forward in this challenging policy landscape?
With Tokyo set to host the 2021 summer Olympics, this conversation will explore Japan’s foreign policy priorities, expectations for the relationship between Japan and the United States under the Biden Administration, and the prospects and potential implications for Japan’s new economic national security bill.
Latin America entered the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences with weakening pre-existing conditions: It was already suffering a severe economic contraction, its healthcare systems were underfunded and dysfunctional and massive street protests fed political instability and threatened governments. What have been the consequences of the multiple shocks that rocked the region? What are the likely political, economic and business trends?
The doom and gloom that characterized transatlantic relations during the past four years was replaced, virtually overnight, with a burst of new energy and excitement upon the election of Joe Biden. European governments, in no subtle terms, welcomed Biden’s election victory as a chance to restore closer ties with Washington. Reflecting on almost a full year since the election, this conversation will cover the future of the European Union and what we can expect for the future of the transatlantic partnership.
Nearly a year into the Biden administration, with leaders having just met at the COP26 summit to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, this event will look back into how the U.S. has managed to deliver on two strands of climate action: adaptation and transition. We will also address what needs to be done and how quickly in order to close the gap with climate emergency demands in terms of actions, and what type of geopolitical behavior will best deliver on the needed action.
Emerging markets and developing economies grew consistently in the two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, only to have their progress put at risk. Join Carnegie scholars who will discuss what the future might look like for emerging market economies such as India, Turkey, and South Korea.
In an increasingly crowded, chaotic, and contested world and marketplace of ideas, the Carnegie Endowment offers decisionmakers global, independent, and strategic insight and innovative ideas that advance international peace.
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Accenture Labs
Altamont Capital Partners
Amazon Web Services
Amway China
Audi China
Bank of America
Basic American Foods
Billdesk
Boeing
BP America
Bridgewater Associates
Business Software Alliance
C5 Capital
Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture of Beirut and Mount-Lebanon
Chevron
Chubb Corporation
Citigroup
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Cooley LLP
Covington & Burling
Cummins China
Dell EMC
Dow Chemical
East Office of Finnish Industries
Equinor, Russia
Exxon Mobil
Faegre Drinker
Flipkart
General Electric
Gilead Sciences
Harman International India
Hitachi
IHI Corporation
Intel
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
JPMorgan Chase
Makena Capital Management
Marubeni America Corporation
Microsoft
Mitsubishi Corporation
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Mozilla Corporation
MUFG Bank, Ltd.
National Engineering Industries Limited
NEC
Northrop Grumman
Oaktree Capital Management
Omidyar Network
Poongsan
Procter & Gamble
Royal Dutch Shell
Science Applications International Corporation
Shell Oil Company
Standard Chartered
Stone Brewing
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Sons Ltd.
Teck Resources
UBS
United Technologies
Warburg Pincus LLP
WhatsApp Inc.
Please contact Melissa Smith at CarnegieCorporateCircle@ceip.org or 1 202-939-2217 for further information regarding Carnegie’s Corporate Circle.