Cuba Working Group
Cuba Working Group
Since 2007, the AS/COA Cuba Working Group (CWG) has been at the forefront of a changing U.S.-Cuba relationship. These efforts were evident in the historic rapprochement in December 2014, which reflected our recommendations and policy outreach work in Washington. The working group continues to encourage a policy of engagement with the island.
CWG serves as both a discreet bridge between the private and public sectors in the United States and Cuba, and as an extraordinary repository of policy knowledge on bilateral relations. The group monitors Cuba’s changing economic and political landscape and U.S. ties, while also assisting the private sector in navigating the changing regulatory framework, investment opportunities, and potential areas for collaboration. Current CWG members represent a variety of sectors, including telecommunications and technology, financial services, agriculture and food production, energy, hospitality, and legal services.
The AS/COA CWG’s activities have three main components:
- High-level meetings and roundtable discussions with Cuban and U.S. government officials, leading economists and analysts, entrepreneurs (cuentapropistas), senior-level business leaders, and members of the international diplomatic community, among others.
- Business delegations to Cuba on invitation from Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment.
- Outreach work in Washington to continue to push for full normalization of bilateral relations.
Featured Event
As part of the Cuba Working Group, this of-the-record conversation will discuss private enterprise, regulations, and foreign trade.
Related
This week is dedicated to Recuerdos of concerts America Society produced in 2019 and a video of the Cuarteto de Solistas del Teatro Real from June 2024.
Extended blackouts reflect what might be the nation’s worst collapse since independence.
Clandestina is Cuba's first independent fashion label. Meet its founders at cafecito with Young Professionals of the Americas, hosted at Google's offices in New York.
Get an inside perspective on U.S.-Cuba relations and the Cuban economy in a cafecito on April 19 with a director at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy.
Live Broadcast
Experts, business leaders, and congressional representatives will discuss U.S.-Cuba collaboration in the health, energy, trade, and business sectors at this half-day conference.
Join AS/COA and the Brookings Institution's Richard Feinberg, who will present his new book on the evolution of Cuba’s economic model.
“This is a necessary step and, unfortunately, we are now doing this in the worst possible situation,” said the Cuban economist on the January 1 currency shift.
The entrepreneur and designer represents a changing Cuba.
Barack Obama's 2014 decision to normalize ties with Cuba seemed to mark the end of the Cold War in the Western Hemisphere. Then President Trump upended it.
Miguel Díaz-Canel is pushing constitutional and private-sector reforms to try to revamp the ailing economy. But red tape could tie up Cuba instead.
Hablamos con emprendedores sobre el impacto de las medidas que han tomado los gobiernos de los Estados Unidos y de Cuba.
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In light of Donald Trump’s announcement on Cuba, here’s how Congress and Americans overall feel about thawing ties with the island.
Listen: As the Trump administration changes U.S.-Cuba policy, Republican Congressman Rick Crawford makes the case for why his bill is a win-win.
Listen: How will Cuba change after Fidel Castro’s death and with a new U.S. president?
Turning back the U.S.-Cuba rapprochement would hurt the Cuban people and U.S. companies, writes AS/COA’s Alana Tummino for CNN.com.
AS/COA's honorary chairman, president, and board members join prominent former officials, Cuban Americans, and private sector leaders in support of President Barack Obama's actions to shift Washington's Cuba policy.
The AS/COA Cuba Working Group offers a series of steps the U.S. president can take to empower Cuban entrepreneurs.
A Cuba Working Group report shows how the Obama administration can encourage private organizations and individuals to support economic change in Cuba.
In light of the ongoing economic reform process in Cuba, the report outlines specific steps that can be taken by the Cuban government, the U.S. government, NGOs and foundations to assist independent small and micro-entrepreneurs in Cuba.
