Anthony L. Gardner
 Anthony L. Gardner    (diplomat) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | May 16, 1963 | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, Oxford University/Balliol College, Columbia University, University of London | |||||||||||
| Parents | Richard Gardner | |||||||||||
| Member of | European Policy Centre | |||||||||||
| Interests | Treuhandanstalt | |||||||||||
U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Senior non-resident fellow of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund.
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Anthony Luzzatto Gardner was the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union.[1][2] Gardner was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council in 1994-95. In between government jobs, he worked for several banks and private equity firms.
Gardner is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Senior non-resident fellow of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund.
Background
His father, Richard, taught at Columbia Law School with Zbigniew Brzezinski, and, like Brzezinski, became a central figure in the foreign policymaking of President Jimmy Carter. Brzezinski viewed Italy as “potentially the gravest political problem [the US] now has in Europe” and in 1977 Carter appointed Richard Gardner as his man in Rome.
Gardner’s mother, daughter of a Venetian Jewish family that fled fascist laws in 1939, herself became a public figure in Italy and a founding board member of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice. His sister, Nina, married an Italian ambassador.[3]
A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in 1981, Gardner holds a BA in Government from Harvard University, an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University, a JD from Columbia Law School, and a Masters in Finance from London Business School. He is fluent in French and Italian, and is conversant in Spanish.[1]
Career
Anthony Gardner did internships in the (CIA-close) Radio Liberty, the State Department’s Soviet desk (with Alexander Vershbow, now NATO’s deputy security-general), the US embassy in Moscow, the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and law firms; in the early 1990s, he spent time in the Paris bourse, at the German agency Treuhandanstalt.[3], which privatized several hundred billion of East German assets, and with the European Commission.
Gardner was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council in 1994-95.[1]
He has lived in London with his family since July 2000. Before becoming U.S. ambassador to the EU, Gardner was managing director for six years at Palamon Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in London. Before that he worked for both Bank of America and GE Capital in London, as well as for several international law firms in London, Brussels, Paris and New York.[1]
In 2013, he was appointed by President Obama to head the US Mission to the European Union. In his testimony before the Senate on October 31, 2013, he noted that one of his most important objectives would be to "help conclude an ambitious Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, that "will position our economies for success in the 21st century."[4] He was confirmed by the Senate on February 12, 2014.[5]
Other activities
He was a member of the Board of Directors of Brookfield Business Partners between June 2017 and June 2020, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Scottish Power between August 2017 and April 2018. He was appointed member of the Board of Directors of Iberdrola in April 2018.[6]
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the advisory boards of the Centre for European Reform, the European Policy Centre the American EC Association and Seed Global Health. He is a Senior non-resident fellow of the German Marshall Fund. He has been trustee of the Guggenheim UK Charitable Trust, and a board member for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.[1]
In 2020, he authored the book Stars with Stripes which "provides an analytic and accessible approach to how the US and EU have worked together efficiently on numerous core issues such as trade, the digital economy, climate change and more."[7] The book was included in the list of best foreign policy books of 2020 published by Foreign Affairs magazine.[8]
Gardner is currently Managing Partner of Brookfield's private equity group, based in London.
References
- ↑ a b c d e https://web.archive.org/web/20150324044121/http://useu.usmission.gov/useu_amb.html
- ↑ Chargé d’Affaires Adam Shub
- ↑ a b https://www.politico.eu/article/n-profile-ag/
- ↑ http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/REVISED_Gardner_Testimony.pdf
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141210174714/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/B?r113:@FIELD(FLD003+d)+@FIELD(DDATE+20140212)
- ↑ https://cadenaser.com/emisora/2018/04/13/radio_bilbao/1523606115_683107.html
- ↑ https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/anthony-gardner/
- ↑ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/2020-12-04/best-books-2020
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