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Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc.
Dr. Ackerman is the managing director of Rockport Capital Incorporated, a private investment firm. Dr. Ackerman holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he is the chairman of the Board of Overseers. He also sits on the boards of Tufts University, CARE, and Freedom House and is a member of the U.S. Advisory Council of the United States Institute of Peace, and the Business Advisory Council of the United States Olympic Committee. Dr. Ackerman co-authored Strategic Nonviolent Conflict (1994) and A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (2000). The latter volume was a companion book for the Emmy-nominated documentary of the same title for which he was the series editor and principal content advisor. Dr. Ackerman was also executive producer of Bringing Down a Dictator, the Peabody award-winning documentary that chronicled the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia. He is the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He is based in Washington, DC.
October 24, 2007
| Speaker: | Henry M. Paulson, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury |
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| Presider: | Peter Ackerman, Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc. |
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Listen to Henry M. Paulson, U.S. secretary of the treasury, discuss the growing U.S.-India economic relationship in advance of his trip to India.
See more in India, Economics, Trade
October 24, 2007
| Speaker: | Henry M. Paulson, U.S. Secretary of The Treasury |
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| Presider: | Peter Ackerman, Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc. |
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Secretary Henry Paulson discusses his trip to India, with an emphasis on India’s rise as an important player on the global economic stage.
February 10, 2006
| Speaker: | Wesley K. Clark, President and CEO, Wesley K. Clark and Associates, LLC; former Supreme Allied Commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1997-200) and former Director of Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1994-96) |
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| Presider: | Peter Ackerman, Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc.; member, Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley K. Clark discusses the war in Iraq, saying, "We have to do the best we can to make the best of a bad, mistaken situation."
See more in Iraq, Nation Building
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