Aspen Ministers Forum Meetings

In October 2023, AMF convened in Copenhagen for its 27th session. Participants from around the world explored a variety of interconnected themes impacting the international system including emerging technologies, global power shifts, and transnational challenges.

In December 2022, the Aspen Ministers Forum convened in Prague, Czech Republic for their 26th session. The ministers focused on the themes from Secretary Albright’s final article in Foreign Affairs titled “The Coming Democratic Revival.”

In November 2019, the Aspen Ministers Forum (AMF) convened for its 25th session in Vienna, Austria. Chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, the AMF assembled former foreign ministers, top diplomats, journalists, experts and thought leaders from around the world to build on the themes discussed at the group’s 24th session at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri.

This session of the Aspen Ministers Forum will focus on reimagining current domestic and international institutions to face today’s pressing challenges, from climate change to globalization and the reemergence of extreme nationalism.

This session of the Aspen Ministers Forum in Marrakesh, Morocco focused on the immense transformation, challenges, and progress occurring across the African continent.

This gathering of the Aspen Ministers Forum in Versailles, France focused on the rise of extreme nationalism, the dangers it presents, and what actions can be taken to push it back.

This convening of the AMF centered around the theme of “A Repositioned Europe and its Role in the World.” The conference focused on Europe’s internal trajectory as well as Europe’s external relations and how Europe can help lead an effort to reinvigorate international institutions and a rules-based international order.

The AMF held Session XX in Silicon Valley, California in November 2016 to discuss how technology can provide opportunities to rebuild and strengthen the social contract, in particular solutions through technology to address humanitarian crises.

Highlights of this forum included a speech by former President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, on the challenges facing the international community in the Middle East, and timely remarks by former Prime Minister of Greece, George A. Papandreou on the Greece-EU crisis.

Continuing the group’s sustained focus on international institutions and multilateralism, fifteen former foreign ministers convened at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in Tarrytown, New York

Twenty-five former foreign ministers examine the most pressing issues of regional security in North Africa and the Middle East and to identify the stakeholders that can play a role in bringing peace and stability to the region.

The Ministers convened to discuss the remarkable transitions underway in the Arab world, in Prague, a city which served as an apposite backdrop for the topic at hand, and its lessons for democratic transition were both well-incorporated into the discussions and much appreciated by the Forum.

Following on the previous meeting in The Hague that examined the loss of faith in international institutions, the Ministers met in Copenhagen to narrow their focus and produce meaningful ideas on ways to strengthen these institutions and increase their effectiveness, specifically in the areas of peace and security.