The Marshall Plan, which provided $13 billion in aid for Europe, rescued the continent from the destruction of World War II and further economic catastrophe while setting the stage for the continent's integration today.  But who were the major players in Europe and the United States who hammered out the deal?  What role did Congress play in forging the policy? What baseline did the Marshall Plan set for future U.S. assistance policies?  To discuss these questions and more, please join Greg Behrman, Henry Kissinger Fellow for Foreign Policy at the Aspen Institute and author of “The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe”.

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Greg Behrman

Greg Behrman is the Henry Kissinger Fellow for Foreign Policy at The Aspen Institute. He is the author of “The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe.”

He is also the author of The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Trough the Global AIDS Pandemic, The Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time (Free Press; June 2004). The New York Times called the book, "[w]ell researched and unsparing," and an "important volume." The Baltimore Sun lauded the "eloquent history" as "[m]arvelous." The Washington Post Book World suggested that it was "[a]head of its time."

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. He also worked in the Principal Investment Area at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York City for several years.

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