James Appathurai (born 7 August 1968, Toronto)https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/documents/sede/dv/sede110914cvappathurai_/sede110914cvappathurai_en.pdf is a

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diplomat and academic. He is the current

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Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, a position he was appointed to in September 2021. Appathurai has worked for NATO since 1998 and was its spokesperson from 2004 to 2010. From December 2010 until April 2022, Appathurai was the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy. During this time, he took on the role of Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, and held discussions with the government of

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about potential NATO accession. In 2021,

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Salome Zurabishvili awarded Appathurai the

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for his contribution to

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. Appathurai was one of three NATO representatives at the 2024 Bilderberg Conference, an annual exclusive gathering of the European and North American political and business

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