Atlanta has taken pains to introduce itself to the world as both a global city and a cybersecurity hub; the recent World Trade Day event wove those themes together during its fourth annual conference. The World Trade Center Atlanta’s all-day summit June 24 blended broad geopolitical issues with specific strategies for defending against attacks in […]
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Georgia Ports: Agriculture Underpins Strong Container Exports
Agriculture accounted for about 60 percent of containers exported from the Port of Savannah in 2019, foreshadowing the sector’s contribution to the resiliency of the ports amid this year’s pandemic, according to the Georgia Ports Authority. As imports slowed, exports of commodities like pulp, paper, logs, cotton and others have stayed relatively steady — exports […]
Commentary: Saving DACA Permanently Means Setting Georgia Up for Recovery
Editor’s note: This post by Charles Kuck is published as part of Kuck Baxter’s annual sponsorship of Global Atlanta and was provided to the publication by New American Economy, which advocates for immigration policies that will drive economic growth. As if Georgia didn’t have enough to worry about with coronavirus recovery, tens of thousands of […]
Hartsfield-Jackson GM: International Air Traffic Will Be Slowest to Recover
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s January and February numbers spurred projections for another record year of traffic, with signs pointing to 113 million passengers by the end of 2020. Then came the coronavirus pandemic — labeled as such by the World Health Organization March 11 — which brought about a precipitous decline in air traffic as governments around […]
Urjanet Raises $14.5 Million to Drive Digitization of Utility Payments
Atlanta-based Urjanet wants to help utilities go paperless, using a $14.65 million Series D raise announced this week to drive adoption of digital payments in a sector where most companies still use in-person collection or paper-based systems. The 10-year-old company spun out of Advanced Technology Development Center has built a business out of aggregating and permissioning […]
Reboot the Police? From Slogans to Generational Solutions, With International Lessons
“Defund the police” has become a clarion call for protesters railing against brutality and systemic racism across the country, and especially in Atlanta. The “city too busy to hate” has yet again become a flashpoint in the international conversation, as the police shooting death of Rayshard Brooks at an Atlanta Wendy’s restaurant last Friday has further […]
Birds: The Original Globalists, Through the Eyes of a Naturalist
For 30 years Stan Tekiela has been studying the flight patterns of birds around the world. Inspired by the work of living English naturalists Jane Goodall, the anthropologist, and Sir David Attenborough, the broadcaster, as well as their forebear John James Audubon, Mr. Tekiela told Global Atlanta, “I haven’t met a bird that I didn’t think […]
Metro Atlanta Chamber Promotes CEO From Within
Katie Kirkpatrick has been tapped to succeed Hala Moddelmog as president and CEO at the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Ms. Kirkpatrick, the chamber’s longtime chief policy officer, will begin in the new role June 15, building on her work advocating to shore up the region’s business environment. Her appointment comes as the chamber is helping galvanize […]
Andrew Young: Mutual Understanding Key to Combating ‘Four Pandemics’
Cultural understanding and mutual respect are key to fixing not only the health crisis of the day, but also the persistent conflicts that scar today’s world, Ambassador Andrew Young said Wednesday. Speaking to youth globally on a call organized by an affiliate of the United Nations in the Southeast, the former Atlanta mayor and Georgia congressman […]
Georgia’s International Team Sees Personnel Shifts
International investors and diplomats who engage with Georgia won’t have to learn new faces, but they’ll soon see them in new places as the state reorients its team focused on reaching out to the world. The shift includes assigning investment project managers that once focused on source markets — like Japan, Germany or Korea — […]
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