Jessica Mathews

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Jessica Tuchman Mathews (b. 1946) is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank in Washington D.C. She has held the post since 1997. Her career includes posts in the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism. She achieved international attention when she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show to argue against invading Iraq a month before the war occurred.[1]

Mathews was educated at Radcliffe College and the California Institute of Technology. From 1977 to 1979, she was director of the Office of Global Issues of the National Security Council, covering 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.

She served on the editorial board of the Washington Post from 1980 to 1982, covering energy, environment, science, technology, arms control, health, and other issues. Later, she became a weekly columnist for the Washington Post, writing a column that appeared nationwide and in the International Herald Tribune.

From 1982 to 1993, she was founding vice president and director of research of the World Resources Institute, an internationally known center for policy research on environmental and natural-resource management issues.

She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997 and served as director of the Council’s Washington program. While there, she published her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, "Power Shift", chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journal's 75 years.

Mathews is a director of Somalogic Inc. and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, The Century Foundation, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. She has previously served on the boards of the Brookings Institution, Radcliffe College, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Surface Transportation Policy Project, the Joyce Foundation, and Hanesbrands inc., among others.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning Historian Barbara Tuchman. Her husband is former Air Force General Charles G. Boyd, president of the public interest group Business Executives for National Security.