Think Tank Quickies (#419)
- Top 10 highest paid CEOs at nonprofits in 2021, via Economic Research Institute (none are think tankers). Politico asks: when is a nonprofit CEO's salary too high? Jonas Parello Plesner, who runs the Alliance of Democracies from Europe, said he earns around $150,000 a year and suggested an informal cap of around $300,000 for the NGO and foundation sector.
- NRDC appointed Manish Bapna as president/CEO starring Aug. 23. Bapna is currently interim president and CEO of the World Resources Institute (WRI). Replacing him at WRI is Ani Dasgupta, who has been named the think tank's next president and CEO.
- CSIS: Survey of Chinese-linked espionage in the US since 2000.
- Former USTR Robert Lighthizer has joined American Compass board of directors along with Daily Caller co-founder Neil Patel.
- New IISS report assesses the US as the only global cyber superpower, well ahead of China.
- Young Uighurs look to sue Australian think tank ASPI over report on forced labor in Xinjiang.
- A research team at Stimson Center, led by Richard Ponzio, has published a roadmap for new global governance "to fill gaps in thinking around what a new global social contract could look like," and is pushing for a 2023 World Summit on Inclusive Global Governance. The center launched a Global Governance Innovation Network on June 24.
- The Center for Global Development (CGD), which specializes in anti-poverty research, spent two years measuring the diversity of nonprofit governing boards.
- Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief and friend of Playbook Eliana Johnson is teaming up with AEI fellow and Dispatch editor Chris Stirewalt on a new podcast critiquing DC journalism.
- Steve Rattner's wife, Maureen White, is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) at SAIS; she is also a member of CFR and serves on the board of CGD.
