About Frederick Kempe
Frederick Kempe is president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council, a foreign policy think tank and public policy group based in Washington, D.C. He is a journalist, author, columnist and a regular commentator on television and radio both in Europe and the United States. His book BERLIN 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Putnam) was released May 10, 2011, and was a New York Times bestseller. He won national and international prizes while serving in numerous management and reportorial capacities—editor, associate publisher, columnist and correspondent. As managing editor from 1992–1997, he created the Central European Economic Review and co-founded Convergence, a magazine on Europe's digital economy. In 2007, Kempe became president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council.
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