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Jessica Tuchman Mathews
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Jessica Tuchman Mathews is President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international research organization founded in 1910, with offices in Washington, D.C., and Moscow.Her career includes posts in the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena and in journalism.
From 1977-79, she was Director of the Office of Global Issues on the staff of the National Security Council in the White House.Her responsibilities included nuclear proliferation, conventional arms sales policy, chemical and biological warfare and human rights.In 1993, she returned to government as Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs.
From 1980-82, she was a member of the Editorial Board of The Washington Post, where she covered energy, environment, science, technology, arms control, health and other issues.
From 1982-93, she served as founding Vice President and Director of Research ('82-'89) for the World Resources Institute, an internationally known center for policy research on domestic and international environmental and natural resource management issues.From 1993-1997, she was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, also serving as Acting Director of the Council's Washington program.
From 1991-1997, she authored a weekly column for the Washington Post which appeared nationwide and in the International Herald Tribune.She has also written for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and other scientific and foreign policy journals.She co-edited The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere Over the Past 300 Years (1990) and co-authored and edited Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership (1991).Her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, "Power Shift," was chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journal's 75 years.
Dr. Mathews came to Washington in 1973 as a Congressional Science Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).She continued in Congress on the staff of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.In 1975-76, she served as National Issues Director in Congressman Morris Udall's presidential campaign, the highest ranking woman in any presidential campaign that year.
She is currently a trustee of the Brookings Institution; the Rockefeller Foundation; The Century Foundation; the Inter-American Dialogue; and the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a national coalition of groups working on domestic transportation issues, of which she was a co-founder.She has previously served on the boards of Radcliffe College, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Joyce Foundation among others.She is a member of the Environmental Advisory Committee of Air Products Corporation, a Fortune 200 company, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the International Advisory Board of the Center for International Development at Harvard University.
She graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1967, and received a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology in 1973.She appears regularly on radio and television and was the subject of one of the most heavily watched of Bill Moyers' World of Ideas series.Mathews was born in New York City in 1946 and raised there, graduating from the Brearley School.She has two children.
(from http://www.ceip.org/people/mathews.htm accessed on 2006-07-01)
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Jessica Tuchman Mathews, born in 1946, is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
She was educated at Radcliffe College and the California Institute of Technology.Between 1982 and 1993 she was founding vice president of the World Resources Institute.She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations between 1993 and 1997.
Mathews became president of the Carnegie Endowment in 1997.She is also a director of Somalogic, and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
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