Ambassador Anthony L. Gardner serves as Senior Counsel to Sidley, the international law firm, and Senior Adviser to Brunswick Global, the public affairs and communications firm. He is a board member of Scottish Power and Brookfield Business Partners. In addition he serves as Senior Non-Resident Fellow of the German Marshall Fund and is a member of the Strategic Council of the European Policy Centre. He is an adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ambassador Gardner served as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from March 3, 2014 to January 20, 2017. He has dedicated more than twenty five years of his career to U.S.-European affairs, as a government official, lawyer and investor.  He has written a book and numerous articles on EU affairs and U.S.-EU relations, and is a frequent commentator on CNN, BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg, as well as in theFinancial Times and the Wall Street Journal.