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Mickey Bergman
Born1976
Alma materGeorgetown University
University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation(s)Executive and lecturer

Michael "Mickey" Bergman is the Vice President and Executive Director of the Richardson Center for Global Engagement.[1][2] He also teaches as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service,[3] where his graduate level courses focus on the art of emotional intelligence in International Relations and negotiations.[4] He has pioneered the field of Fringe Diplomacy,[5] an area of global engagement that connects people in arenas typically left void by governments and NGOs. Mickey Bergman has become known as an expert in the fields of Cuba, North Korea, and Myanmar.[6] Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize,[7] alongside Former Governor Bill Richardson; Mickey has led his team at the Richardson Center to facilitate the release of more political prisoners than any other organization, including American Student, Otto Warmbier, from North Korea,[8][9][10] and Princeton student, Xiyue Wang, from Iran.[11][12] Mickey creates new political capital by leading Professional Exchange Programs to frontier countries such as North Korea, Myanmar, Cuba, Lebanon, and others. He has worked as Executive Director of the Global Alliances Program at the Aspen Institute. He is also the Founder and President of the Solel Strategic Group (SSG).[13][14][15] Mickey has published numerous articles, interviews, and opinion pieces in the New York Times,[16][17] Washington Post,[18][19] International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Foreign Policy Online,[20] and Huffington Post. Mickey also has been featured as a subject matter expert for television interviews on CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News,[21][22][23][24] I24news,[25][26] Global News,[27] and ABC News Australia.[28]

Biography[edit]

Bergman is a former paratrooper in the Israeli Defense Forces.[29] Prior to his work with the Aspen Institute and SSG, Bergman served for two years as the Director of Congressional Relations and Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation.[30]

As president of SSG, the group worked with the Clinton Global Initiative, former Governor Bill Richardson, the Robert Redford Center at Sundance, and the Elders.[31]

At the Aspen Institute, Bergman previously directed programs including Partners for a New Beginning, the Emirates-Aspen Partnership, the North-Africa Partnership of Economic Opportunity, and the U.S.-Lebanon Dialogue. Bergman has published in the Boston Globe, Foreign Policy Online, the Huffington Post, Ynet, Daily Star, Aspen Magazine and the Center for American Progress Middle East Bulletin. He teaches at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.[32][33]

Personal life[edit]

Bergman is married and has one child. He lives in Arlington, Virginia. He holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University[34] and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Staff | The Richardson Center". 2 July 2015. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  2. ^ "Alumni Spotlight: Mickey Bergman (MSFS '05) emphasizes "emotional intelligence" in diplomacy as his work is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize". MSFS. 2019-02-25. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  3. ^ "Practitioner Faculty Archives". SFS MSFS. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  4. ^ "Faculty". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  5. ^ "Fringe Diplomacy". www.fringediplomacy.com. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  6. ^ "CL | Mickey". Celebrity Legacy. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  7. ^ "Alumni Spotlight: Mickey Bergman (MSFS '05) emphasizes "emotional intelligence" in diplomacy as his work is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize". SFS MSFS. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  8. ^ Wildman, Sarah (2017-07-03). "Meet one of the negotiators who helped free Otto Warmbier from North Korea". Vox. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  9. ^ "The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage". GQ. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  10. ^ Scherer, Klaus. "Video: Die Akte Otto Warmbier (english version)". Das Erste. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  11. ^ Rozen, Laura. "Inside the US-Iran prisoner swap, and what comes next". Al Monitor. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  12. ^ Wright, Robin (8 December 2019). "The Real Deal Behind the U.S.–Iran Prisoner Swap". New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  13. ^ Aspen Institute Official Biography of Mickey Bergman
  14. ^ Huffington Post - Mickey Bergman
  15. ^ Richardson Center Staff
  16. ^ Richardson, Bill; Bergman, Mickey (2012-11-14). "Opinion | A Rare Moment for Myanmar — and America". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  17. ^ Gladstone, Rick (2016-10-07). "In Rare Encounter, a Private U.S. Delegation Visits North Korea". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  18. ^ Bergman, Mickey (March 10, 2018). "Kim Jong Un won't give up his nukes. Trump should meet with him, anyway". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
  19. ^ Bergman, Mickey (February 1, 2013). "North Korea-U.S. relations need a reboot". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
  20. ^ Atallah, Mickey Bergman, Amjad. "Forget the old two-state solution: Tackling the hard stuff in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2019-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ "Otto Warmbier negotiator breaks down the keys to negotiating with North Korea". Fox News. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  22. ^ "Warmbier negotiator reacts to Trump's suggestion that Kim Jong Un was unaware of Otto Warmbier's condition". Fox News. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  23. ^ "President Trump remains optimistic about Hanoi summit". Fox News. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  24. ^ "Negotiator's firsthand account of dealing with North Korea". Fox News. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  25. ^ Mickey Bergman (2019-01-22), i24 News Interview on 2nd North Korea Summit, retrieved 2019-07-06
  26. ^ Mickey Bergman (2018-08-28), i24 News Interview on the plight of the Rohingya. Richardson Center's VP, Mickey Bergman, retrieved 2019-07-06
  27. ^ "Trump and Kim Jong Un need successful summit: Bergman | Watch News Videos Online". Global News. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  28. ^ Warmbier negotiator says US student's death helped lead to summit, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2018-06-13, retrieved 2019-07-06
  29. ^ "Meet one of the negotiators who helped free Otto Warmbier from North Korea". 3 July 2017.
  30. ^ "Discussion to target fighting genocide". vindyarchives.com. 2007-04-07. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  31. ^ "US Islamic World Forum April 12-14, 2011 - Biographies" (PDF). US Islamic World Forum April 12-14, 2021. 2011: 27. 2011-04-12.
  32. ^ "A Rare Moment for Myanmar — and America" The New York Times, Nov 14, 2012
  33. ^ Richardson, Bill; Bergma, Mickey (2013-02-01). "North Korea-U.S. relations need a reboot". Washington Post. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
  34. ^ "Alumni Spotlight: Mickey Bergman (MSFS '05) emphasizes "emotional intelligence" in diplomacy as his work is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize". MSFS. 2019-02-25. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
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