Even serving in the United States four times, British Ambassador Karen Pierce has never attended a presidential inauguration. When it became clear that diplomats would be cleared to join the much-anticipated Jan. 20 installment of President-elect Joe Biden as the next U.S. leader, she jumped at the chance. “I couldn’t get my acceptance in fast enough,” […]
StationSoccer Founder Awarded Order of the British Empire
Atlanta’s Sanjay Patel was among the few overseas Britons who woke up to the new year with a new honor from his country of origin. Mr. Patel, director of strategic projects with Soccer in the Streets, this week was awarded the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his “services to […]
Diplomatic Digest: Turnover in Atlanta’s Consular Corps During 2020
As 2021 begins, Atlanta welcomes a modified consular corps bolstered by new diplomats who arrived here during the strangest of times and stocked with those likely kept in the city a bit longer by the pandemic. In normal times, diplomats taking up new postings here are welcomed with events — dinners, receptions and the […]
Global Atlanta’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2020
If any year posed the temptation to chase web traffic by reporting in more detail on politics, 2020 was it. But even throughout a contentious election year, rocked by racial-justice protests and a raging pandemic, Global Atlanta resisted the temptation to be consumed by the domestic stories that dominated the news cycle. Of […]
Austrian Honorary Consulate Passes From Father to Son in Atlanta
Austria is keeping its Atlanta honorary consulate in the family. Ferdinand Seefried, a commercial real estate developer who had represented his native country in Georgia, Alabama and Tennesee for 31 years, passed the torch to his son, Paul, earlier this month upon his retirement. Paul Seefried has already been cleared by the Austrian government and formally appointed […]
Newly Arrived Greek Consul Sees Tourism Promise in 2021 Bicentennial
Atlanta may have taken the centennial Olympic Games from Athens in 1996, but the new Greek consul here holds no ill will. At least Atlanta and Ancient Olympia got a sister city relationship out of the deal, says Theodoros Dimopoulos. And besides, he will be preoccupied with a far more important celebration as his work begins […]
Pompeo Warns of Chinese Influence on U.S. Campuses in Georgia Tech Speech
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used an appearance at Georgia Tech Wednesday to encourage vigilance against what he described as the Chinese Communist Party’s increasing encroachment on American campuses. In a 15-minute speech followed by a dialogue with Georgia Tech President Angel Cabrera, the former spy chief turned top diplomat outlined the Trump administration’s […]
Consul General: Pakistan Welcomes Renewed Openness, COVID-19 Plans Signaled in U.S.
Pakistan sees the U.S. returning to a level of trust in international systems, a welcome shift during an era of dramatic challenges requiring deeper global cooperation, the country’s top diplomat in Houston told Global Atlanta. Calling the COVID-19 pandemic one of the biggest epochal changes in modern times, Consul General Abrar Hashmi said the world must work together to […]
Japan Ambassador Sees Stable Ties Continuing Through Presidential Transition
Signs point to shift in tone and approach from the Trump administration, but the core tenets of the U.S.-Japan relationship will remain much the same despite the impending U.S. leadership transition in January 2021, Japanese Ambassador Shinsuke Sugiyama said in a virtual call today. Japan’s top diplomat in the U.S. was careful not to make […]
Interview: Czech Ambassador Reflects on Jazz, Diplomacy and ‘Translating America’
Hynek Kmoníček has obviously given some thought to the interplay between music and diplomacy. But rather than the classical he learned growing up in his then-communist country, the ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States sees the clearest analogy in between the two in the “organized freedom” of jazz. Mr. Kmoníček visited Atlanta […]
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