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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks from a podium on the Meridian House lawn to a crowd of American ambassadors gathered under the cedar of Lebanon
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and American ambassadors on the Meridian House lawn, June 2022

Founded 1960 · Washington, DC

Empowering leaders for the next era of diplomacy

Meridian is a nonpartisan center for diplomacy on a four-acre campus on Meridian Hill. Its two John Russell Pope houses welcome more than 3,500 leaders a year on a campus often called Washington’s unofficial embassy.

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828 records: 637 convenings, 93 experts, 34 news items, 63 announcements, and the annual report, filterable by Center, topic, partner sector, and country.

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