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The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. [2] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. , but also has a campus in Aspen, Colorado , its original home.
The Aspen Ministers Forum meeting in Copenhagen in 2012. The Aspen Strategy Group (ASG) is a policy program of the Aspen Institute, based in Washington D.C. [1] A membership-based forum composed of current and former policymakers, academics, journalists, and business leaders, [2] its stated mission is to "drive change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the most important ...
The Aspen Institute was founded by Walter Paepcke in 1950 in Aspen, Colorado. [10] Paepcke was a Chicago businessman and the founder of the Container Corporation of American (CCA). As a Germanophile, he and his wife, Elizabeth Paepcke, actualized a celebration and gathering in Aspen in June 1949 to mark the two-hundredth birthday of Johann ...
In the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado, where the Institute was founded and where it maintains its Aspen Meadows campus, it has broadened its partnerships with the local community and deepened its connection with its aesthetic and cultural heritage through the creation of a $20 million educational facility and creativity corridor celebrating ...
The Aspen Institute Germany (Aspen Institute Deutschland e.V.) is a German non-profit think tank focused on Euro-Atlantic cooperation, geopolitical and geoeconomic conflicts, and digitization. It organizes conferences and meetings on such topics with participants from politics, business, academia, media, culture, and civil society. [ 1 ]
Walter Seff Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, [5] [1] in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Betty "Betsy" Lee (née Seff) and Irwin Isaacson. [6] [7] [8] His father was an electrical and mechanical engineer, and his mother was a real estate broker. [6]
Walter Paepcke (June 29, 1896 – April 13, 1960) was an American businessman and philanthropist who was prominent in the mid-20th century. A longtime executive of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, Paepcke is best noted for his founding of the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s, both of which helped transform the town of Aspen, Colorado into an ...
Joseph E. Slater (1922–2002), was an economist and intellectual entrepreneur who played a key role in the "de-Nazification" of Germany after World War II.He was instrumental in making the Aspen Institute an important East-West conduit in the Cold War and authored the original blueprint for the Peace Corps.