Ilan Greenberg

Nov 1, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Ted Bromund |Sandra A. Grossman |Ilan Greenberg

Interpol’s supreme governing body, the General Assembly, will formally elect the organization’s new secretary general at its next meeting Nov. 4-7 in Glasgow, Scotland. The incoming secretary general, who is responsible for Interpol’s day-to-day operations, should be prepared to advance a reform agenda, because while the improvements Interpol has made to its institutions and procedures over the past eight years are significant, they are insufficient.

Mar 7, 2024 | newyorker.com | Ilan Greenberg

One morning in March, Dimitri Simerazhko looked up from breakfast to see tanks rolling by his apartment in Sevastapol, on the Crimean peninsula. He turned from the window and Skyped his business partner, Sergei Dubograev, in Virginia. The two of them had co-founded a startup called Pinxter that makes phone apps to track the online popularity of brands. “I told him that this Ukraine situation has become, uh, uh, uh—O.K., let’s say it’s become a little bit weird.

Dec 27, 2023 | codastory.com | Ilan Greenberg

At the start of 2023, Germany’s far right descended on Dresden for its annual “March of Mourning.” Their show of force was a fist meant to punch a hole in Germany’s traditionally subdued “silent commemoration” of the anniversary of the firebombing of the city by the Allied forces in February 1945.