Atlanta

Students From Four Continents to Attend Summer Programs at Brandon Hall in Sandy Springs

As most schools get ready for summer break, the Brandon Hall School in Sandy Springs is gearing up to host students from half a dozen countries attending partner schools and to rev up its programs for future “global leaders.” The students from Africa, Asia, South America and Bermuda, the self-ruling British overseas territory, will participate […]

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Wipro’s CEO Honors ‘Giving Pledge’ by Boosting Teacher Ed in India

Azim Premji, currently ranked as India’s second wealthiest billionaire, certainly is a man of his word. In May 2001, he pledged to the Georgia-Indo American Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta his company Wipro LLC’s support for its Atlanta office. Today that office has served as a model for the company’s offices elsewhere in the U.S.. […]

Former President of Kennesaw State to Head the Atlanta Council on International Relations

Dr. Daniel S. Papp, the former president of Kennesaw State University (KSU) has been chosen by the Atlanta Council on International Relations (ACIR) to assume the post of chairman of its board of advisors. The ACIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing its members and metro Atlanta with a better understanding of the issues […]

Diplomats Learn How Georgia Tech’s Coda Building Orchestrates Innovation

Atlanta’s Consular Corps got a preview tour March 20 of the $355 million Coda building, the mother-of-all mixed-used developments in Midtown’s Technology Square. The diplomats visited while the finishing touches were being made on the 645,000 square feet of office space and the 22,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space to be housed by […]

Pro-Immigrant Clarkston Mayor Launches Petition to End Shutdown Over ‘Racist’ Border Wall

The mayor of the metro Atlanta city known as the “Ellis Island of the South” has launched a petition urging President Trump to end the record-long federal government shutdown over the border wall, decrying what he called the politics of fear and racism. Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry, a Democrat who took office in 2014 and […]

A Look Back on 2018, Plus Five Global Atlanta New Year’s Resolutions

Global Atlanta leaned a little bit more toward our local side this year. While in previous year-end reports we regaled you with tales of our (sometimes) exotic travels, we spent more of 2018 recalibrating our ability to sustain our influence locally. Our wings weren’t completely clipped, but we realized that to truly soar as Atlanta’s […]

Atlanta Drops Out of Top 25 ‘Global Cities of the Future’

Atlanta failed to show up in the top 25 Global Cities of the Future as ranked by fDI Intelligence, a British magazine which released its annual report on cities’ investment potential in December. Ironically for a future-focused index, it didn’t take long for the Georgia capital to lose ground to competitors. Atlanta dropped out of […]

Irish Consulate and Emory’s Rose Library Collaborate on the Anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ Birth

The Consulate General of Ireland and the Rose Library at Emory University collaborated Nov. 27 on a ceremony marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, which drew almost 400 attendees to fill Emory’s Cannon Chapel. The event featured Emory’s foremost scholars of African American history to provide context and readings from some […]

United States

Metro Chamber Annual Meeting: Workforce Key to City’s Global Growth, Local Prosperity

If there’s one word beyond all the sloganeering that defined the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s annual meeting Thursday, it might be “mirror.” Representatives of a range of companies, from BlackRock to Pandora, intimated on stage that they located in Atlanta partly because it’s an emerging tech hub, but mostly because they could see their culture and […]

Home Schooled Winner of WWI Centennial Commission Prize in D.C. for Armistice Day

When Daniel Wright hears the bells ring at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11th at the National Cathedral in Washington this weekend, he’ll be fully aware of their significance — that the bells are ringing for all veterans who have given their lives for their country, and more particularly that they also are ringing on behalf […]

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