World Review: Haiti Assassination, Merkel's Last US Visit, Cuba Rising
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World Review with Ivo Daalder
Philip Stephens, Ryan Heath, and Elise Labott join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
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About This Episode
Council President Ivo Daalder talks with the Financial Times' Philip Stephens, Foreign Policy’s Elise Labott, and POLITICO’s Ryan Heath about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s last visit to the White House, the presidential assassination in Haiti, Cuba’s rising protests, and the European Union’s climate initiative.
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About the Panelists
Contributing Editor, Financial Times
Philip Stephens joined the Financial Times in 1983 as the economics, political, and UK edition editor, and currently serves as a contributing editor. He won the David Watt Prize for Outstanding Political Journalism, Political Journalist of the Year by the UK Political Studies Association, and Political Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards.
Co-Author of Axios AI+, Axios
Ryan is co-author of Axios AI+ — examining the ways our world is transformed by tech innovations and the people who regulate them. Ryan moderated the first presidential debate of the 2019 EU election, and between 2015 and 2023 wrote POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook, Davos Playbook and Global Insider newsletters and hosted podcasts. He is former presidential speechwriter and tech spokesperson at the European Commission.
Elise Labott
Contributing Editor, POLITICO Magazine & CEO of Zivvy Media
Elise Labott is an adjunct professor at American University’s School of International Service and the founder and CEO of Zivvy Media, a digital platform to engage youth on global issues.
CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
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