Mark R. Kennedy
Strategic Competition: Economic
Economic Engagement with Europe
Research Focus
Bolster mutually beneficial trade while leveraging transatlantic alignment to spark global action and define standards.
Featured Media
Events and Publication
Bridging the Transatlantic Divide in Norm-Setting Around digital Economies
A collaboration between the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung - Geneva and the Wilson Center's Wahba Institute on the margins of the WTO Public Forum.
Highlights regarding EU and US Climate Policy: Convergences and Differences
With the European Union proceeding with a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the Wilson Center's Wahba Institute in partnership with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung engaged with seven US House / Senate offices to explore how US CBAM proposals compare and contrast.
EU-US Divergence on Energy Policy: Differing Economic Structures and Possible Alignment on a Market Based Approach
Explores how differing economic structures pull the Atlantic partners apart (US - energy exporter, EU - energy importer), but how rising deficits may nudge them to align on a market based approach.
LONDON ROUNDTABLE - ACTIVATING GREATER INTERNATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Featured Adam Wang-Levine, Deputy Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary
DIALOGUE WITH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF LIECHTENSTEIN SABINE MONAUNI
Good discussion on the future of the transatlantic economy and trade, as well as US-European alignment on China.
UKRAINE GIFT TO US OFFICE OF THE WORLD BANK
Honored to join Felice Gorordo, Acting US Executive Director of the The World Bank, Her Excellency Oksana Markarova, Ukraine's Ambassador to the US, World Bank President Ajay Banga, Sr. Managing Director Axel van Trotsenburg, Managing Director Anna Bjerde and Roman Kachur at unveiling o a US Seal, handmade in Ukraine.
MOMENTUM BUILDS IN EFFORTS TO SEIZE RUSSIAN ASSETS FOR UKRAINE
“The general view by many lawyers from multiple countries is that if this decision is made by international bodies, that it is an ‘authorized taking,’ whether it be the pledge against loans or just expropriating the assets themselves,” Mark Kennedy, director of the Wilson Center’s Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition, told VOA. “I think it is going to happen in some way, shape or form, though whether it's near term or not is yet to be seen,” he said. “There’s a feeling that this is appropriate justice, vis-a-vis Russia.”
HOW COULD FROZEN RUSSIAN ASSETS BE USED TO FUND UKRAINE’S RECONSTRUCTION?
Panel included Philip Zelikow, Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Robert Zoellick, US Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005 and President of the World Bank from 2007 to 2012.
AT DAVOS, EU LEADERS BRISTLE OVER GREEN SUBSIDIES IN IRA
“It will be interesting to see what the final Treasury regulations are able to do, but many believe this is going to require a legislative fix,” Kennedy said. “The accommodations that are so far in the Treasury ruling are not of great significance related to the concerns the European community has.” Kennedy argued that Washington should have negotiated with all its major industrial partners before passing such a sweeping piece of legislation. “Climate concern is a global concern,” he added. “Having a more coordinated approach to it, as opposed to something that moves down a protectionist path, is more likely to achieve the climate objectives in an efficient manner.”
US AND EU INDICATE PLAN TO END ELECTRIC VEHICLES SUBSIDIES DISPUTE, BOTH WARY OF CHINA AND RUSSIA
“America needs to prioritise coordination and cohesion with allies to be successful in its StrategicCompetition with authoritarian powers,"
LECTURING AT UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN, NORWAY
LECTURE AT UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE JUDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL - UK
HOSTING FINLAND PRESIDENT SAULI NIINISTÖ
As Co-Founder and Chairman of the Economic Club of Minnesota, it was an honor to host Finland's President.
