World Security Network Foundation
The World Security Network Foundation (WSN) is an independent, international non-profit organization. It is the largest global elite network for foreign and security policy with the purpose of "Networking a Safer World", promoting fresh global foreign policy, which is labelled "World 3.0".[1]
WSN was founded and funded by Dr Hubertus Hoffmann, a German investor and geo-strategist and by his long-term American mentor, Pentagon strategist Dr Fritz G.A. Kraemer in 2001 in New York. Kraemer was known as the mentor of Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig.[1]
The World Security Network focuses on three goals:[1]
- Networking the young foreign and defence affairs elite.
- Providing fresh analysis, ideas and visions for the world's most pressing problems.
- Promoting designs for a safer world in politics, the media and academia.
In 2012, WSN had a network of 100 editors (34 nationalities). The International Advisory Board consisting of 71 well-known experts from 21 countries. It included former ministers, state secretaries, members of parliament, ambassadors, journalists, politicians and academics as well as 20 former admirals and generals.[1]