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Global Atlanta is the only news service devoted to covering international business as it affects Atlanta and Georgia. Through personal, in-depth reporting on our website and an email newsletter that sums up each week's stories, Global Atlanta tracks how local companies are engaging with the global economy and how foreign enterprises are fueling Atlanta's rise as an international business center. To gather news, we rely on 20 years of connections spanning Atlanta's global business community. By committing to original, trustworthy content that enhances readers' professional lives, our website has become a key venue where like-minded business leaders, government officials, economic developers and students can come together to gain insight about global business in our city. In addition to news, GlobalAtlanta.com publishes an international calendar of business, educational and cultural events at http://www.globalatlanta.com/events. Subscribe to get our weekly news update and digest of events at www.globalatlanta.com/subscribe.
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A Christmas gift for the Dutch expat community in Atlanta, who had been seeking a convenient way to renew passports locally...
https://www.globalatlanta.com/dutch-consulate-to-offer-passport-services-unveil-new-office-and-residence-in-2020/
Deep conversation with Dutch Consul General Ard Van der Vorst last month on Dutch-American historical ties and solving challenges on water, architecture, governance, design and more with Dutch solutions.
We also delve into his personal goal of ensuring Southern hospitality works for everyone. Read the interview: https://www.globalatlanta.com/interview-deeper-dutch-investment-to-bring-solutions-jobs-to-the-south/
It’s no accident that Ard Van der Vorst picked mid-November for an interview focused on the Netherlands’ relationship with the Southeast U.S. The Dutch consul general in Atlanta was keen to build on the momentum around Dutch-American Heritage Day, which each year marks the ties linking the natio...
The Atlanta Christkindl Market has more than doubled in size this year to more than 60 booths, thanks to its new location at Centennial Olympic Park.
What you may not know is that with each purchase of an ornament, wooden toy, glass of gluehwein or piece of gingerbread, you're supporting German-language education throughout Georgia via the German American Cultural Foundation.
Learn more about the story behind the growth of the market, now in its fourth year: https://www.globalatlanta.com/atlantas-german-christmas-market-grows-with-new-centennial-park-location/
The Atlanta Christkindl Market is back and bigger than ever, and what it may have sacrificed in quaintness it makes up for in an enlarged footprint worthy of the holiday street markets that dot town squares back in Germany. In its fourth year, the German Christmas market has moved to Centennial Olym...
Teodoro Maus wasn't afraid to rock the boat. The architect, academic and artist-turned-diplomat served as Mexico's consul general for most of the '90s in Atlanta, as the city's Latin population swelled in the run-up to the Olympics and beyond.
Both as a diplomat and especially later as a community activist, he was known for pointing out injustices, sometimes bluntly, and organizing the community to fight them.
Mr. Maus, who had stayed in Atlanta and became an American citizen after leaving his consular post, died in November at 84. Those reflecting on his life and legacy at the Consulado General de México en Atlanta Dec. 5 called him the patriarch of the many organizations now fighting for greater representation for the city's Latin communities.
We dipped all the way back to 1993 in our archives for this retrospective on his life and legacy:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/former-mexican-community-leaders-legacy-highlighted-at-tribute-ceremony/
Atlanta was barely prepared for the 1996 Summer Olympics, the city’s epic transformational event. With the Games only 90 days away, a Washington Post reporter described Atlanta as the “hospitable but anxious first city of the South is like a frazzled hostess scrambling to set the table minutes b...
"Atlanta is late to the game. I think you need to break the mold to say, ‘Hey, we’re here.’" -- Our wide-ranging interview with Colombia's Francisco Santos on how Atlanta can create a splash in South America by becoming a conduit for venture capital.
Editor’s note: The message at the Metro Atlanta Chamber from Colombian Ambassador Francisco Santos Tuesday was clear: the country of 50 million is not only open to American investment, but eagerly seeking more commercial engagement from its long-time military ally. In light of the U.S. trade spat ...
Three chances to see #Colombia's ambassador speak in Atlanta next week. Learn more about how Francisco Santos, a former vice president, is promoting his country as an investment destination in today's column by Al Hodge:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/colombia-ripe-with-opportunity-ambassador-says-ahead-of-visit-to-georgia/
Editor’s note: Al Hodge, a professional economic developer with more than 40 years’ experience, is contributing his unique perspective on fostering trade and recruiting foreign investment with a new series of columns for Global Atlanta. Mr. Hodge writes about Georgia’s role in trade conversati...
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CARE CEO Michelle Nunn talks with GirlsGoingGlobal Founder Martice Sutton about the need to balance local/global activism in the fight for gender equality at the World Affairs Council of Atlanta's #DayoftheGirl breakfast:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/care-brings-the-global-fight-for-girls-empowerment-home-to-atlanta/
This year, the international nonprofit CARE will for the first time conduct poverty-alleviation work in Atlanta, instituting a savings program for women based on a model that took off first in Niger. Village Savings and Loan Associations brings women together in local financial cooperatives, allowin...
A delicious chance to help the Bahamas is coming at the Atlanta International Night Market this Sunday.
Learn more about how the three-day festival with an expected 60,000 attendees will benefit the Bahamas Consulate Atlanta's ongoing Hurricane Dorian relief efforts:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/atlanta-night-markets-taste-of-caribbean-to-benefit-bahamas-relief/
With 200 exhibitors and an expected 60,000 guests representing 75 countries, this weekend’s Atlanta International Night Market may be bringing the world to Alpharetta, but it’s also spreading some benefit beyond U.S. borders. Each day — or should we say evening — of the Oct. 4-6 festival wil...
We helped organize/moderate a trade and investment forum focused on #Indonesia yesterday that drew some 80 attendees.
Thanks to the Consulate General of Indonesia - Houston for including us and expressing an ambition to work more with Georgia.
Our short summary story highlights Ambassador Mahendra Siregar's views on how Indonesia can be an alternative source of products and buyers for the U.S. amid the China trade war:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/ambassador-indonesia-can-provide-u-s-a-china-alternative/
Our buddies at GCIV are looking for a new Program Coordinator. More details on our #jobs page:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/view/jobs/entry/5227/
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"Our Bahamian community has taken the position to act, and are to be commended for the fever that we are working with to see that our brothers and sisters gain relief,", says Bahamas Consulate Atlanta's Astra Armbrister-Rolle.
Learn more about the initial push for what the consulate hopes will be a sustained relief effort from Atlanta:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/atlanta-bahamas-relief-drive-begins/
For Astra Armbrister-Rolle, Thursday night was just the beginning. Fewer than three days after Hurricane Dorian pummeled the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama, killing a reported 30 so far people and washing away some 13,000 homes and untold infrastructure, the consul general of the Bahamas organize...
The Bahamas Consulate Atlanta is collecting relief supplies and donations around metro Atlanta to help the island nation deal with the devastation wrought by #HurricaneDorian.
Here's where and what to give, how to get in touch, instructions about monetary giving and a look at what's next in the diplomatic outpost's relief drive, as per Consul General Astra Armbrister-Rolle:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/consulate-atlanta-bahamas-hurricane-dorian-relief/
Just a day after Hurricane Dorian departed the Bahamas, leaving at least seven people dead and untold destruction in its wake, the country’s consulate general in Atlanta has already sprung into action mobilizing emergency supplies and funds from around its 10-state territory. Atlanta-based Consul ...
For all their immersion with the local community — from volunteering to at the Peachtree Road Race to meetings with the mayor and key companies — the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders participants at Clark Atlanta University seemed to relish most the chance to build ties with one another.
https://www.globalatlanta.com/a-network-of-african-business-influencers-minted-in-atlanta/ #yali #mwf #entrepreneurship
The Mandela Washington Fellows who visited Atlanta for six weeks in June and July were emphatically positive about the leadership program that brought them across the Atlantic. The U.S. State Department’s Young African Leaders Initiative touched down in the city for the sixth straight year, once a...
Thanks to Brazilian Consulate in Atlanta's Carlos de Abreu for agreeing to our wide-ranging interview on Brazil's economic reforms, democratic development and more. In this Consular Conversation, we focus heavily on growing Brazilian investment in Georgia fintech, agriculture, manufacturing and beyond. The consul general committed to making entrepreneurial exchanges one of his top priorities:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/diplomat-brazils-maturing-institutions-key-to-economic-reforms-turnaround/
Thanks to Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of the Southeast, Inc. and Miller & Martin for their partnership on the event, along with the Dean Rusk International Law Center's support of our diplomacy coverage.
Passage of a pension reform bill this month in Brazil’s lower house of Congress would come as no surprise to attendees of a Global Atlanta Consular Conversation in late June. During the luncheon interview hosted at Miller & Martin PLLC’s Midtown office, Consul General Carlos Henrique Moojen de A...
Liberia's economy may be small, but in light of a new continental trade agreement in Africa, the country can be a 'springboard' for Georgia's trade efforts there, Ambassador George S. W. Patten Sr. said in Atlanta. He urged the state to consider Liberia for an African trade office.
Read more:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/liberian-ambassador-wants-georgia-to-be-a-springboard-to-the-african-continent/
Liberia’s determined efforts to solidify its ties with Georgia were energized by the mid-May visit of its ambassador to the U.S. who encouraged the state to play a dominant role in establishing a cargo hub for the African continent. George S. W. Patten Sr., a veteran Liberian diplomat who assumed ...
Brandon Hall School is ramping up for its Center for Global Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurial Studies programs this summer, which will attract students from Africa, Asia and South America and Bermuda.
Among other requirements, students must identify pressing global issues and come up with creative solutions to solve them:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/students-from-three-continents-to-attend-summer-programs-at-brandon-hall-in-sandy-springs/
As most schools get ready for summer break, the Brandon Hall School in Sandy Springs is gearing up to host students from half a dozen countries attending partner schools and to rev up its programs for future “global leaders.” The students from Africa, Asia, South America and Bermuda, the self-ru...
Soccer in the Streets' Nations Cup soccer tournament is back this weekend, using national rivalries to raise funds for local youth programs. Learn how to donate or attend:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/nations-cup-soccer-fundraiser-returns-for-fourth-year-april-27/
Soccer in the Streets is once again using national rivalries over futbol to spur local fundraising, bringing back its Nations Cup tournament for the fourth straight year this weekend. Eight local teams of seven are to rally around the country of their choice (whether they hail from there or not) and...
SweetWater Brewing Company's SweetWater 420 Festival this weekend is helping showcase the strong local craft beer brand that has helped attract buyers in 12 countries.
https://www.globalatlanta.com/sweetwaters-sweet-spot-atlanta-craft-brewers-story-beers-find-an-international-audience/
SweetWater Brewing Co.’s annual 420 Fest is a decidedly local affair, a celebration of good music and easy living in the heart of the local craft brewer’s hometown. But this weekend, cruising Centennial Olympic Park and listening to headliner Widespread Panic will be a bevy of foreign faces seek...
Join our partners at the World Trade Center Atlanta for the 3rd annual World Trade Day conference, just two weeks away. The first 15 GlobalAtlanta readers to register qualify for a discount: https://mailchi.mp/globalatlanta/wtd-2019?e=57199ea0d7
Consulate General of Belgium in Atlanta's William De Baets joined us for his second #ConsularConversation today and was a good sport as we asked him to cover some pretty broad ground. Our talk meandered from WWI history to the Belgian origins of Georgia's peach-growing industry and back to present-day challenges of NATO and tariffs.
Hard to believe this is our third year putting together these lunch forums. Thanks to our partners at Miller & Martin PLLC for hosting and for Belgian American Chamber of the South's Julie Lambotte for the pictures.
We've been working with the The Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce to organize this upcoming event on how fintech is becoming Atlanta's global technology calling card.
Fittingly, it will be held the same week as FinTech South 2019, which will bring companies to Atlanta from all over the world. Learn more and register here for the event 4/25 here:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/event/the-fintech-factor/
Hey Global Atlantans, we usually don't do this, but we're asking local friends of France to send us your selfies or best photography of Notre Dame Cathedral as we aim to show local support for France in this time of cultural loss. Atlanta and Paris have longstanding connections in the arts and architecture that have been reiterated time and again in tragedy.
How to be included: Post a new pic or tag an existing one on Twitter or Facebook tagging GlobalAtlanta, or email the photo to us in an attachment directly to [email protected]. Please include your name, home city and the year that the photo was taken.
We got the ball rolling with submissions from our staff that date as far back as 2009:
https://www.globalatlanta.com/solidarity-selfies-notre-dame/
Global Atlanta is asking local friends of France to send in selfies at Notre Dame or their best photos of the famed cathedral to show the community’s solidarity with the French people at this time of collective cultural shock and loss. Atlanta and France have a long history of being connected thro...
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Atlanta United FC President Darren Eales highlights aspects of Mercedes-Benz Stadium proving soccer was not an afterthought in its design. Story coming...
Finally got our hands on our video from the Metro Atlanta Chamber's Global Impact Awards. Watch to learn more about what we do. Hat tip to Radiant3 Productions for their awesome work.
Honored that our founder and publisher, Phil Bolton, was selected last night for the Technology Association of Georgia International Business Society's inaugural International Community Service Award honoring lifetime achievement in building Georgia's global business community.
Watch as a man in Jaipur, India, drinks from a glass of water for the first time using his prosthetic arm. This is the type of innovation going on in India at an extremely low cost.
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