Herman Pirchner, Jr.
President

In 1982, Herman Pirchner, Jr. became the founding President of the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), a non-profit public policy organization headquartered in Washington, DC. Under his leadership, AFPC has hosted the Washington visits of hundreds of foreign officials, ranging from the Prime Minister of Malta to the Prime Minister of Russia; conducted hundreds of briefings for members of Congress and their staffs; and organized dozens of fact-finding missions abroad for current and former senior American officials.

AFPC’s publication program includes the sponsorship of numerous articles, monographs and books. In recent years, AFPC authors have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal (including the European and Asian editions), the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, and the New York Post, among other prominent newspapers and magazines. During the same period, AFPC scholarly articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as The National Interest, Current History, Middle East Quarterly, Problems of Post-Communism, and The Journal of International Security Affairs.

Mr. Pirchner’s worldwide travels have taken him to many countries – most frequently to Russia, which he has visited more than 60 times since 1989. Russia, China, Iran and India are foremost among the countries in which AFPC will conduct programs in the coming year.