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reg Behrman is the founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of NationSwell. NationSwell is a digital media company focused on American renewal. The team identifies the new American innovators and pioneers who are doing the most creative and impactful things to move our country forward, produces great stories about them, and drives social action in support of their efforts.
He was formerly the Henry Kissinger Fellow at The Aspen Institute and was also a Fellow at The Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University. In between college and graduate school, he worked for two years at Goldman, Sachs & Co in the firm's private equity group.
He is the author of The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Trough the Global AIDS Pandemic, The Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time (2004), The Most Noble Adventure: The Story of the Marshall Plan and The Time When America Helped to Save Europe (2007).
All of the proceeds from his first book were donated to Heartbeat, a South African-based not-for-profit that provides care for AIDS orphans. Behrman is on Heartbeat's Board of Directors. He was also the Coordinator for the Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable on Improving U.S. Global AIDS Policy.
Behrman has moderated Roundtable events with leading policy makers and experts and has been the featured speaker at The Council on Foreign Relations (Washington D.C.), The Asia Society (NY), The Commonwealth Club of California (San Francisco), The Foreign Policy Association (NY), Harvard, Yale, Princeton and dozens of other venues. He has appeared on NBC, PBS, C-SPAN, CNN, Fox News, CNBC and National Pubic Radio (NPR). His writing has appeared in Newsweek International, Los Angeles Times and International Herald Tribune.
He graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Politics and a certificate in Political Economy from Princeton University. He graduated with an M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University.
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A Conversation with Greg Behrman, author of The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time (Free Press; June 2004)
What inspired you to tell the story of the U.S. response to the global AIDS
crisis?
When I first learned of the magnitude of the crisis, I was absolutely stunned.
Tens of millions of people were dying of a preventable and treatable disease. I
have always been deeply struck by the Holocaust. It seemed to me that this was
the defining moral challenge of our time - our Holocaust. I had to do my part.
Most Americans feel that AIDS is coming under control at home so global AIDS
won't directly affect them. Are they wrong?
They are dead wrong. This disease has already killed 25 million people. By 2010,
it is expected to have infected 100 million people. In Africa, an entire
generation of adults is under siege. Mankind has never seen anything like it.
For starters, our sense of morality won't allow us to abide such needless
devastation, when there is so much that we can do to prevent or mitigate it. In
addition, our security at home is now bound to global stability, at large, ...
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