Branko terzic biography examples
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A Sample of Universal Bureaucratic Excuses
1. The Anthony Blunt excuse
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Anthony F. Blunt was a leading British art historian, who after being offered immunity from prosecution, confessed to having been a Soviet spy. For Americans this covers everything from Kennedy’s assassination to the truth about Russian interference in US elections in 2016.
2. The Comprehensive schools excuse
It’s only gone wrong because of heavy cuts in staff and budget which stretched supervisory resources beyond limit.
In the US it would be the explanations for the ability of Jeffrey Epstein to commit suicide in what was supposed to be close supervision in a heavily guarded federal prison.
3. The Concorde excuse
It was a worthwhile experiment now abandoned, but not before it provided valuable data and considerable employment.
The Concorde was a British-French super-sonic passenger airl
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COVID-19 as Not Unique but New Generic Problem
Branko Terzic is Managing Director of Berkeley Research Group, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Competitiveness, and a former Federal Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. You may follow him on Twitter @BrankoDuTerzic.
After this coronavirus crisis passes it is likely that we will rediscover that our responses—successful and unsuccessful—to this global catastrophe can provide us with lessons for use in future similar crises. How we evaluate these lessons and create playbooks for dealing with future crises will be the result of individual and collectives efforts of all segments of society including government, the private sector and non-governmental organizations coordinating at local, regional, and international levels.
The COVID-19 crisis follows a number of other national and global crisis of this and the last century.
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The Honorable Branko Terzic, PC, GCCY, ScD (h.c.) holds appointments as The Royal Adjutant (1976), Member of the Privy Council (1991), and Delegate of HRH Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia in the United States.
Dr. Terzic’s royal decorations include; Kt. Grand Cross of the Order of the White Eagle, Kt Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia, Kt. Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Kt. Order of St. Michael of the Wing, Kt. of Merit of the S.M.O Constantinian of Saint George, Commendatore Order pro Merito Melitense of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Military & Civil).
An internationally recognized energy engineer, Dr. Terzic is a former United States federal and state government official and corporate executive. He is currently a Managing Director at the Berkeley Research Group LLC and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, both in Washington DC. He is also a member of The Brookings Institution Global Electricity Roundtable.
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