Aspen Strategy Group

The Aspen Strategy Group’s mission is to convene decision makers in resolutely non-partisan public and private forums to address key foreign policy challenges facing the United States. The ASG organizes its annual Summer Workshop, hosts Track II dialogues, and presents the annual Aspen Security Forum where domestic and foreign government officials, business executives, leading academics, and noted journalists convene for three and a half days to discuss solutions to the most pressing national security and foreign policy challenges of our time. As a part of the Aspen Strategy Group’s commitment to cultivating the next generation of leaders in national security and foreign policy, the third pillar of its work is the Rising Leaders Program for young professionals.

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        The story of the ASG begins in 1971 with American strategist Paul Doty, who initiated an annual meeting to discuss arms control at the Aspen Institute. By the early 1980s, the group had evolved into a nonpartisan forum for discussion among academics, experts, and government officials. In 1984, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, Brent Scowcroft, and Joe Nye formally created the ASG. The “founding three,” highly regarded in Washington and around the world for their leadership and public service, agreed that the group would be resolutely nonpartisan. They set in place a framework of private, off-the-record discussions to which we still adhere today. We believe this is a key reason for our success and why we continue to attract to Aspen the most senior former government officials from both parties, as well as journalists, business-people, and academics.

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          The Aspen Strategy Group is deeply grateful to have the support of many of the nation’s leading philanthropies, corporations, and generous individuals. Their belief in our mission to foster resolutely nonpartisan dialogue on the most pressing U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities is greatly appreciated and we are pleased to recognize them here.

          The Aspen Strategy Group is committed to transparency and best practices. Our Conflict of Interest statement is available here.