Former Spanish President José Maria Aznar Joins JHU SAIS as Distinguished Fellow
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June 6, 2011
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Former Spanish President José Maria Aznar Joins JHU SAIS as Distinguished Fellow
Washington, D.C.—June 6, 2011— José Maria Aznar, former president of the government of Spain, has joined the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) as a distinguished fellow.
Based at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR), Aznar, who was president of Spain’s government from 1996 to 2004, will serve as a focal point for the center’s “Atlantic Basin Initiative”—seeking to research, map and chart the future of the relationships among the four Atlantic Ocean continents. His activities will include giving periodic lectures to SAIS students. Aznar will also contribute to the center’s ongoing work on strengthening transatlantic relations through NATO and the EU, and to the advancement of SAIS’s Latin American relationships.
“We are delighted to welcome President Aznar to the center,” said Dan Hamilton, CTR executive director and Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Research Professor. “As president of the government, he was a visionary leader for Spain, and I am confident he will bring that same kind of visionary leadership to our center.”
Aznar joins former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton, also a distinguished fellow at CTR, as another of Europe’s former heads of government now dedicating a portion of his time to the advancement of the transatlantic relationship through SAIS.
According to the University of Pennsylvania’s “Global Go To Think Tanks Rankings,” the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations was ranked 6th among the university-affiliated think tanks in world for 2010 and has been consistently rated as one of the top-20 “go-to” U.S. think tanks in general. The center seeks to advance U.S.-European partnership in addressing the global challenges of the 21st century. For more information about CTR, visit http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu.
SAIS is one of the country’s leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations. Located along Embassy Row in Washington’s Dupont Circle area, the school enrolls more than 600 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals and has trained more than 15,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs. SAIS also has campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China.
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