Mission
Aspen Berlin is a non-partisan, privately-supported organization dedicated to values-based leadership in addressing the toughest policy challenges of the day. A significant part of Aspen’s current work is devoted to promoting dialogue between key stakeholders on the most important strategic issues and to building lasting ties and constructive exchanges between leaders in North America, Europe and the Near East. Aspen achieves this by bringing together interdisciplinary groups of decision makers and experts from business, academia, politics and the arts that might otherwise not meet or are even hostile to another. They are convened in small-scale conferences, seminars and discussion groups to consider complex issues in depth, in the spirit of neutrality and open mindedness needed for a genuine search for common ground and viable solutions.
Aspen’s small staff organizes three different types of activities: a "Public Program” of events open to the Friends of Aspen Berlin and to select invited guests; a closed, invitation only series of "Policy Programs”, undertaken at the instigation of various sponsors; and a "Leadership Program” as shown in the figure.