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
THE US AND EU TACKLE TRANSATLANTIC TRADE AND TECH ISSUES
WILSON CENTER SMART TAKE - JANUARY 30, 2024
Events and Publication
Bridging the Transatlantic Divide in Norm-Setting Around digital Economies
ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATION IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
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
KEITH ROCKWELL REPORT ON COLLABORATION BETWEEN WAHBA INSTITUTE AND GERMANY'S KONRAD ADENAUER FOUNDATION - AUGUST 14, 2024
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
COLLABORATION BETWEEN WAHBA INSTITUTE AND GERMANY'S KONRAD ADENAUER FOUNDATION - AUGUST 14, 2024
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
ORGANIZED AND LED WILSON CENTER ROUNDTABLE IN LONDON - MAY 15, 2024
Featured Adam Wang-Levine, Deputy Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary
DIALOGUE WITH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF LIECHTENSTEIN SABINE MONAUNI
WILSON CENTER ROUNDTABLE - APRIL 30, 2024
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
UNVEILING OF GIFT FROM UKRAINE TO US - MARCH 13, 2024
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.
WILL THE NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
WILSON CENTER SMART TAKE - MARCH 1, 2024
MOMENTUM BUILDS IN EFFORTS TO SEIZE RUSSIAN ASSETS FOR UKRAINE
QUOTED IN VOICE OF AMERICA - FEBRUARY 14, 2024
“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.”
THE US AND EU TACKLE TRANSATLANTIC TRADE AND TECH ISSUES
WILSON CENTER SMART TAKE - JANUARY 30, 2024
US-EU SUMMIT ACHIEVED UNITY OF ACTION EVEN THOUGH SIDESTEPPING TRADE ISSUES
WILSON CENTER POLICY BRIEF - OCTOBER 24, 2023
HOW COULD FROZEN RUSSIAN ASSETS BE USED TO FUND UKRAINE’S RECONSTRUCTION?
WILSON CENTER PANEL DISCUSSION - OCTOBER 4, 2023
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.
A TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE: CARBON PRICING AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION
WILSON CENTER PANEL DISCUSSION - JUNE 9, 2023
VON DER LEYEN LEADERSHIP STRENGTHENS THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE
WILSON CENTER POST - APRIL 3, 2023
IT’S THE ECONOMY (AND MORE): WHY MACRON AND VON DER LEYEN ARE IN CHINA
WILSON CENTER POST - APRIL 3, 2023
AT DAVOS, EU LEADERS BRISTLE OVER GREEN SUBSIDIES IN IRA
QUOTED IN NATIONAL JOURNAL - JANUARY 19, 2023
“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.”
A TRANSATLANTIC DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORK IS ESSENTIAL
POLICY BRIEF WITH KEITH ROCKWELL - DECEMBER 6, 2022
FOLLOW THROUGH ON ELECTRIC VEHICLE CREDIT TWEAKS ESSENTIAL TO PRESERVING ALLIANCES
POLICY BRIEF WITH KEITH ROCKWELL - DECEMBER 5, 2022
TTC to Tackle Important Issues But Leaves Data Privacy and EV Tax Credits to the Side
POLICY BRIEF WITH KEITH ROCKWELL -- DECEMBER 2, 2022
US AND EU INDICATE PLAN TO END ELECTRIC VEHICLES SUBSIDIES DISPUTE, BOTH WARY OF CHINA AND RUSSIA
QUOTE IN SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST - DECEMBER 6, 2022
“America needs to prioritise coordination and cohesion with allies to be successful in its StrategicCompetition with authoritarian powers,"
“THE EU MAY NOT BE ENTIRELY UNJUSTIFIED IN COMPLAINING”
INTERVIEW BY GERMANY'S WIRTSCHAFTSWOCHE, NOVEMBER 9. 2022
LECTURING AT UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN, NORWAY
SHAPEHOLDERS - NOVEMBER 1, 2017
LECTURE AT UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE JUDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL - UK
SHAPEHOLDERS - OCTOBER 30, 2017
HOSTING FINLAND PRESIDENT SAULI NIINISTÖ
ECONOMIC CLUB OF MINNESOTA -- SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
As Co-Founder and Chairman of the Economic Club of Minnesota, it was an honor to host Finland's President.
KOÇ UNIVERSITY'S GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - ISTANBUL, TURKEY
TEACHING BUSINESS-GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COURSE - AUGUST 2017
TURKEY'S MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS - MEVLÜT ÇAVUŞOĞLU
WELCOMING TO GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - MARCH 29, 2016
With GW President Knapp
EUROPEAN UNION : DRIFTING APART DESPITE ECONOMIC RECOVERY?
PANEL WITH MICHAEL HEISE - FEBRUARY 10, 2016