In the Schirach Report Paolo von Schirach monitors and analyzes major global trends –with special focus on the changing role of the United States of America in world affairs in a new historic context characterized by the relative decline of Europe and by the rise of Asia.
The Schirach Report examines the challenges confronting America and other mature Western societies: cost of government services, competitiveness issues, innovation, education, immigration energy and more.
The Schirach Report focuses also on the correlation between ideas and policies, since ideas and ideologies, new and old, stride to provide guidance to societies affected by transformative processes unprecedented in scale and speed.
Paolo von Schirach, born in Italy, (with Italian and Austrian background), is a naturalized American. He is the founder and editor of the Schirach Report, a Washington, DC based writer, lecturer and international economic development consultant. (Download a detailed CV.)
Paolo von Schirach lectures on US politics, economics, security issues, Europe, international affairs and global trends to American and international audiences. Recent lectures include presentations at Fudan University in Shanghai. (Contact Paolo for speaking engagements).
As a consultant, Paolo focuses on energy, innovation and sustainable development. He has been Director of Communications and Senior Research Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States, in Washington, DC; Deputy Director of the Global Security Project and more recently Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program of the School of Foreign Service, (MSFS), at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Paolo von Schirach is a regular contributor to Swiss Radio and a frequent guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) of the US Department of State.
