Entrepreneurial Diplomacy Program
The global realities confronting the United States today are ominous, lying beyond the control of any one nation state. Unprecedented transnational concerns include nuclear non-proliferation, economic recession, violent drug cartels, flu pandemics, environmental degradation, and climate change.
To meet these challenges we need private sector leaders who can bring fresh thinking and offer imaginative solutions. Network 20/20’s Entrepreneurial Diplomacy Program pursues this goal through study, dialogue, and field research in regions of global security importance. We have had a special interest in building bridges with our peers in the Islamic world. Our mission is to build a broad, influential network of private citizens that will generate concrete, actionable ideas aimed at enhancing international security and prosperity.
Since its founding in 2004, Network 20/20 has fielded two member delegations to Pakistan and two to Iran as well as delegations to Turkey and Poland. Recommendations and findings from these pioneering trips were compiled into a series of widely circulated field research reports that have become “must reads” for public and private sector policy makers.
Network 20/20 members meeting with Owais Ahmed Ghani, Governor of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, in his Peshawar office, May 2005.