Council on Foreign Relations

Washington, DC

Bernard Schwartz serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the world’s foremost organization on promoting foreign policy and America’s role in the world. Through meetings of government officials, global leaders and Council members, and through its think tank and publications, the Council on Foreign Relations has been pressing foreign policy debate since 1921.

The Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellowship in Business and Foreign Policy

The Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellowship in Business and Foreign Policy was established in 2002 to focus on the global integration of financial markets and their significance for U.S. economic and foreign policy.

In 2007, Bernard Schwartz renewed his support with the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellowship in U.S. Competitiveness and Foreign Policy: The High Politics of Low Politics

The fellowship supports the work of the council in examining competitiveness and foreign policy through lectures, special reports, roundtables and published articles.

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Current Fellow Edward Alden was the former Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times. His current work examines United States visa policies, as well as American competitiveness in the areas of regulation, taxation, labor, technology, and trade, and their relevant overlap with national security issues.

More details about Mr. Alden's work can be found here

The Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture on Business and Foreign Policy

An accompanying series to the Fellowship, the Lecture Series was also established in 2007 by Mr. Schwartz to focus on two areas:

• The evolution of the relationship between business and government in the making of foreign policy, and
• How the government can make better use of business in solving foreign policy problems and for business to become more engaged in the making of foreign policy.

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The Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture on Business and Foreign Policy

A Meeting with John T. Chambers, President and CEO, Cisco Systems Ltd.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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