Mike Abramowitz
President, Freedom House
Michael Abramowitz is the president of Freedom House, a nonpartisan voice promoting democracy where he oversees analysis, advocacy, and direct support to frontline defenders for freedom. Previously, he directed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, and before that, led the museum’s genocide prevention efforts. Abramowitz spent the first 24 years of his career at The Washington Post, where he was national editor and then White House correspondent. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Security Archive board. Abramowitz is also a member of the Human Freedom Advisory Council at the George W. Bush Presidential Center and the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy’s advisory council at Purdue.
Previously
Across the globe, free and fair elections have given rise to autocratic regimes. Have we underestimated the fragility of democracy and overestimated its value? (Book signing w...
Vladimir Putin offered Donald Trump a swap at the now infamous Helsinki summit: I’ll let you interview the twelve Russian agents accused of hacking DNC emails, if you give my...
Worried about the health of our democracy? There’s a bright light. Nation-wide the social sector is expanding to include NGOs led by a new generation, entrepreneurs building c...
Among the most potent new challenges to liberal democracies around the world is the powerful reemergence of authoritarianism as a geopolitical phenomenon. Coupled with disrupt...
Resources
Is Democracy in Crisis?