Jamie Metzl
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Jamie F. Metzl is the Executive Vice President of the Asia Society. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics. He worked the Clinton Administration in the United States Department of State, serving as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy & Public Affairs and Information Technology. Metzl was also the Senior Coordinator for the State Department’s International Public Information division. Previously, he served as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs for the National Security Council.
In 2004, Metzl ran unsuccessfully against former Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver for the Democratic nomination for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District.
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[edit] Career
Metzl has served as Deputy Staff Director and Senior Counselor of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senior Coordinator for International Public Information and Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the Department of State, and Director of Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs on the National Security Council. At the Clinton White House, he coordinated public information campaigns regarding Iraq and Kosovo. From 1991 to 1993, Metzl was a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), where he used his fluency in the Khmer language to help create a human rights investigation and monitoring unit for Cambodia.
In 2003, Metzl directed a Council on Foreign Relations which argued that the United States was not spending enough to prepare first responders (i.e. fire, police, rescue and medical agencies) to handle another catastrophic attack.[1]
Metzl has been interviewed extensively in the American media regarding his fields of expertise, including appearances on Meet the Press[2], The Today Show, and Fox News's On the Record with Greta Van Susteren[3] regarding the Council on Foreign Relations Report on First Responders. He authored a book on human rights in Southeast Asia, and also has published material in The New York Times[4] and Foreign Affairs.[5] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Co-Chair of the Board of the Partnership for a Secure America and a former White House Fellow.
[edit] Education and background
Jamie attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.
His novel The Depths of the Sea was published by St. Martin's Press in May, 2004.
[edit] References
- ^ "U.S. Spending Against Terror Is Too Low, Report Warns", The New York Times, June 29, 2003
- ^ Metzl appeared together with Warren Rudman and was interviewed by host Tim Russert about emergency responders being drastically underfunded and dangerously unprepared, appearing on June 29, 2003
- ^ THE NATIONAL DEBATE - WEEKEND RUN DOWN: June 28-29, 2003, accessed November 28, 2006
- ^ "A Message of Hope in Each stride; The Runners of East Timor Have Emerged as Symbols of Independence", The New York Times, May 27, 2001. p. SP11
- ^ "Publication Image Information intervention: When switching channels isn't enough" by Jamie F. Metzl. Foreign Affairs. Nov/Dec 1997. pg. 15, 6 pgs
