Albright Stonebridge Group

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lobby group, deep state milieu?

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Formation	26 April 2001
Headquarters	New York City, New York State
Membership	Kenichirō Sasae,Julia Abad,Hakan Akbas,Imad Al-Abdulqader,Madeleine K. Albright,Addis Alemayehou,Sarah Al-Shawwaf,Eric Altbach,Ashlyn Anderson,Bertha Angulo,Nicholas Anstett,Jaemin Baek,Martin Baily,Jasmine Battle,Holly Bekesha,Samuel R. Berger,Michael Bessey,Jessica Acimovic Bondi,Robert O. Boorstin,Lauren Bosma,Ian Bowles,Xiaoqing Boynton,Carol Browner,Robin Carnahan,Johnnie Carson,Amy P. Celico,Caroline Chang,Aneesh Chopra,Donna Christian-Bruce,Anthony Cino,Harry W. Clark,Robert Claure,Betsy Cooper,Jane Cushman,Maya Delaney,Jeffrey DeLaurentis,Thomas Donohue,Jonathan Eigege,Susan Eisenhower,Mark Elliot,Harry England,Melissa A. Estok,Raudline Etienne,Mark Feierstein,Arturo Fermandois, Joschka Fischer,Virginia B. Foote,Jacob Freedman,Barry Friedman,Alexander Gabuev,João Taborda da Gama,Jaime Gama,Juliana García,Stephen Garrett,Rajeev Garside,Andrew Gee,Jeremy Geiger,Sukanti Ghosh,André Júdice Glória,H.P. Goldfield,Benjamin Gordon,Philip Gordon,Anna Graziano,Douglas Grob,Donald Gross,Sumona Guha,Mojanku Gumbi, Carlos M. Gutierrez,Lee Hamilton,John Hancock,Ratih Hardjono,Anthony S. Harrington,Juan Carlos Hartasánchez,David Hathaway,Marika Heller,Christopher Hill,Nate Hodson,Zaki Hosny,Harry Hu,Dietmar Huber,John Hughes,Kenneth Hyatt,Samuel Ide,Ekenem Isichei,Kim Jacinto-Henares,Scott Jacobs,Roberta S. Jacobson,Pedro Jardim,Kenneth Jarrett,Muni Jensen,Sun Jiahui,Tayo Johnson,Jennifer Joslin,In-Sook Ju,Stefanie Juster,William Kabagambe,Jan Kamphuisen,Brian Katulis,James King,Joseph S. Kitamirike,Othmane Kotari,Prem G. Kumar,Mu Lan,Shen Lei,William Leiner,Jin Ligang,Chi Lin,Elizabeth L. Littlefield,Isis Nyong'o Madison,Matthew Manning,Christopher Maroshegyi,Katherine Marti,Julie Mason,Anuradha Das Mathur,Kyle McFadden,Meredith Miller,Jia Mingru,Molly Montgomery,Richard Morningstar,Margo Morris, Gilbert Mudge,Shen Nan,Cao Nanxin, Anthony Nelson,Pär Nuder, Victoria Nuland,James C. O'Brien,Antonio Ortiz-Mena,James Oswald,Ana Palacio, Abhay Pande,George Papademetriou,Marike Paulsson,Wang Peishu,Douglas Peterson,Ignacio Petrocchi,Lauren Pinson,Juan Carlos Pinzon,Donald Planty,Luis Guillermo Plata,Kenneth Pollack,Karen Poreh,Charles Prince, Nirupama Rao, Evans Revere,Alana Rizzo, Christopher Roberts,Ricardo Rodriguez,Liza Romanow,Lauren Ronayne,Louise Rosenberg,Dan K. Rosenthal,Warren Rudman,Enrique Ruelas,John Schlosser,Nancy Ennis Sefko,Ira Shapiro,Wendy R. Sherman,Michael Shtender-Auerbach,Bipul Kiran Singh,Pramath R. Sinha,Ory Slonim,Ranjana Smetacek,Desirée Cormier Smith,Ian Smith,Bruce Solomon,Jasmine Squire,Jan Stewart,Alisha Sud,Nikhil Sud,Pierre Tantchou,Denson Terry,Linda Thomas-Greenfield,Nigel Thompson,Richard Trutanic,Isabel Udell,Christopher Ulian,Sergio Ulloa,Beto Vasconcelos,Raymond Vickery,Cassady Walters,Ruonan Wang,Michael J. Warren,Andrew Weiss,Philip Winder,Nicole Wong,Xiang Yang,Uzair Younus,Dai Yunlou,George Zhao,Ellen Zhu,Yevgeny Zvedre
Economic Hit Men

The Albright Stonebridge Group is a "commercial diplomacy firm" with "perspectives honed at the highest levels of government and business" and "an unparalleled worldwide network of regional experts and sectoral specialists",

Overview

Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG) is a global business strategy firm based in Washington, D.C., United States. It was created through the merger of international consulting firms The Albright Group and Stonebridge International, a defense contractor lobbying group. OpenCorporates lists the date as 26 April 2001.

They are secretive about their clients, "ranging from the world’s leading commercial and financial organizations to high-growth ventures, industry associations, philanthropic organizations, and more.."

The focus is on privatization, crisis management, cracking open markets for big corporations and the assessment of political, trade-related and regulatory problems, opportunities and risks on the international markets.

The access to high ranking politicians and the revolving door between politics and consulting makes it a typical example of the standard practice for 100 years, that US foreign policy is run by and for big corporations.

The close connections to the US power apparatus (Pentagon, CIA, State Department) makes it extremely threatening to governments around the world, and a "broker" it is hard to say no to.

ASG is chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former U.S. Commerce Secretary and Kellogg Company CEO Carlos M. Gutierrez, and the company has several other war mongers and official mass murderers among its staff.

ASG is affiliated with Albright Capital Management, an emerging markets investment firm founded in 2005, using insider information from the US power system to make profits on creating misery the Third World.

Capabilities (2008)

• Broker agreements with governments and businesses
• Find and build business relationships
• Secure capital
• Develop public-private partnerships
• Identify and address political and regulatory risks
• Enhance corporate responsibility and citizenship
• Manage crises
• Build strategic relationships with opinion leaders
• Analyze privatization opportunities and offer strategic counsel for foreign investments

The 2020 capabilities list is a bit more airbrushed, but things like "Issue advocacy", like "Build strategic relationships with opinion leaders", hints at a far reaching media propaganda network. (To see what similar companies brag about in private, see Avisa Partners).

EXIM

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Many of ASG’s top officials share a history with the US Export-Import Bank and worked with the US government agency in a variety of capacities. The 80-year-old government bank provides taxpayer-backed loans and loan guarantees to foreign countries and companies to purchase U.S. exports. The close ties with the Ex-Im Bank paid off for three clients that, collectively, benefited from more than $6.3 billion in financing from the bank between 2009 and 2013: Siemens AG, First Solar and Dow Chemical Co. During that same period, Albright’s daughter, Alice Albright, was Ex-Im’s chief operating officer and executive vice president.

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Members of the company frequently appear in the media as pundits, propagandizing a hard-line view on US enemies, and defining issues in a way that is convergent with the company's lobbying efforts.

Christopher Maroshegyi, an analyst at Albright Stonebridge Group, wrote an article for the NATO think-tank Atlantic Council, "Hungary Descends into Nationalist Bolshevism", calling for regime change.