Jamie Metzl
Jamie Frederic Metzl is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society and was formally the Asia Society’s Executive Vice President. In this capacity, he was responsible for overseeing the institution's strategic directions and overall program activities globally.[1] He developed and led the Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative, the organization's Pan-Asia-Pacific leadership development program.[2][3]
Metzl served as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs for the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration,[4] worked for 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 and Senior Coordinator for International Public Information,[5] and was also Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then Senator Joe Biden.[6]
In 2004, Metzl ran unsuccessfully against former Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver for the Democratic nomination for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District.[7]
Career
Metzl served as Deputy Staff Director and Senior Counselor of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,[6] Senior Coordinator for International Public Information and Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the Department of State,[8] and Director of Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs on the National Security Council.[8] At the Clinton White House, he was the primary drafter of Presidential Decision Directive 68 on International Public Information[9] and coordinated public information campaigns for Iraq and Kosovo.[10] From 1991 to 1993, Metzl was a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC),[11] where he helped establish a human rights investigation and monitoring unit for Cambodia.[12]
In 2003, Metzl directed a Council on Foreign Relations study which argued that the United States was not doing enough to prepare first responders (i.e. fire, police, rescue and medical agencies) to handle another catastrophic attack.[13]
Metzl has been featured as a commentator in the American and international media, including BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and Fox News Channel. He has appeared on Meet the Press together with Warren Rudman, discussing how emergency responders being drastically underfunded and dangerously unprepared.[14] He authored a book on human rights in Southeast Asia and the novel The Depths of the Sea,[15] and his writing has been published in The New York Times[16]Foreign Affairs[17] and many other publications.[18] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[19] and a former White House Fellow,[20] Aspen Institute Crown Fellow,[21] and French-American Foundation Young Leader.[22] He is a Founder and Co-Chairman of the Board of bipartisan[23] national security NGO the Partnership for a Secure America,[24] serves on the board of the Jewish refugee organization HIAS,[25] and the Brandeis University International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life,[26] and has served as an election monitor in Afghanistan[27] and the Philippines.[28]
Education and background
Metzl is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.[4] He also holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.[29] He attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1986.[30]
He has completed multiple ironman triathlons and marathons, as well as one ultramarathon.[31][32][33]
Profiles
- Marathon Man (DNA Bangalore, March 2010) [1]
- 아시아 차세대 리더들, 한국서 배울 점 많아 (Chosun Ilbo, November 2006) [2]
Books
- Jamie Frederic Metzl (May, 2004). The Depths of the Sea. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 031232202X.
- Jamie Frederic Metzl (1996). Western Responses to Abuses in Cambodia, 1975-80. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0333643259.
Syndicated columns (multiple publications)
- 5 Imperatives for G20 (Korea Times, November 8, 2010) [3]
- Sri Lanka Must Invest in Rights Protection (Japan Times, June 4, 2010) [4]
- China Must Do More as a Big Power (The Australian, April 9, 2010) [5]
- Afghanistan Lost without Better Governance (Japan Times, March 18, 2010)[6]
- Let Afghans Lead Afghan Reform (co-authored by C. Christine Fair, Kansas City Star, Sept 11, 2009) [7]
- Building an Asian Century (The Guardian, July 1 , 2009) [8]
- After the Pax Americana (The Guardian, December 14, 2008) [9]
- America's "Sputnik Moment" in Beijing (Miami Herald, August 21, 2008)[10]
- China's Perfect Storm (May, 2008) [11]
- Burma road goes through Beijing (October, 2007)[12]
Select publications
- China and Cyber-Espionage, Huffington Post, August 22, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-metzl/china-and-cyberespionage_b_931918.html
- China's Threat to World Order, Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2011, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904006104576500690087766626.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
- Dear President Hu: China must meet its global responsibilities, CNN, January 12, 2011, http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/18/metzl.china.hu/
- China's Global War on Human Rights, the Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703493504576007373794078278.html
- Judgment at Wikipedia, Brown Alumni Magazine, March 2010, http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2495/32/
- My Hamid Karzai Daydream, Huffington Post, October 1, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-metzl/my-hamid-karzai-daydream_b_306858.html
- Marriage Counseling for the United States and Russia, Huffington Post, February 27, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-metzl/marriage-counseling-for-t_b_169545.html
- Three Quick Steps to Jump-Start America's Public Diplomacy, Huffington Post, January 15, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-metzl/three-quick-steps-to-jump_b_157968.html
- Allying America and Asia, Forbes, November 25, 2008, http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/11/25/america-asia-policy-oped-cx_jm_1125metzl.html
- Rethinking Asia-Pacific Relations, Far Eastern Economic Review, November 24, 2008, http://www.feer.com/international-relations/2008/november/Rethinking-Asia-Pacific-Relations
- Life: Coming to a Screen Near You, World Policy Journal, Fall 2008, http://www.worldpolicy.org/life-coming-screen-near-you
- Beijing's Triumph of Engineering, Far Eastern Economic Review, August 26, 2008, http://www.feer.com/international-relations/2008/august/Beijings-Triumph-of-Engineering
- A Call for Action on Burma, May 14, 2008, http://blog.psaonline.org/2008/05/14/a-call-for-action-on-burma/
- Brave New World War, Spring, 2008, http://www.democracyjournal.org/article.php?ID=6586
- Guerra en el mundo feliz (Spanish translation of "Brave New World War", p. 238, http://www.boell-latinoamerica.org/es/web/795.html
- Metzl, Jamie (2008), "Too Fast, Too High, Too Strong", The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020803273.html
- Metzl, Jamie F (October 1, 2007), Chinese chequers, The Guardian, http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jamie_f_metzl/2007/10/chinese_chequers.html
- Defusing the HIV/AIDS time bomb, May 6, 2006, http://www.asiasociety.org/pressroom/oped_timebomb.html
- U.S. Can No Longer Afford Isolation, Newsday, September 20, 2001, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=814
- U.S. Must Win Battle of Images, The Baltimore Sun, October 3, 2001, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=812
- Let Private Firms Aid UN Nation-building, The Christian Science Monitor, August 13, 2001, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=757
- Perils of Secrecy in an Information Age, iMP Magazine, July 2001, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=746
- Can Public Diplomacy Rise from the Ashes?, Foreign Service Journal, July–August 2001, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=758
- Runners of East Timor Have Emerged as Symbols of Independence, The New York Times, May 27, 2001, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=707
- Network Diplomacy, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2001, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=681
- For a Digital Marshall Plan, Christian Science Monitor, March 28, 2001, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=654
- Popular diplomacy (Daedalus, Vol. 128, 1999) [13]
- Information Intervention: When Switching Channels Isn't Enough, Foreign Affairs, 1997, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19971101facomment3808/jamie-f-metzl/information-intervention-when-switching-channels-isn-t-enough.html
- Rwandan Genocide and the International Law of Radio Jamming, American Journal of International Law, October 1997, http://www.jstor.org/pss/2998097
- Searching for the Catalog of Catalogs (Daedalus, Vol. 125, 1996) [14]
- Information Technology and Human Rights (Human Rights Quarterly, Fall 1996)
- The UN Commission on Human Rights and Cambodia (Buffalo Journal of International Law, Fall 1996)
- The Legacy and Lessons of UNTAC (Harvard Journal of International Law, Winter 1996)
- Ethnic Vietnamese of Cambodia (Harvard Human Rights Journal, Spring 1995)
- The Many Faces of UNTAC (Contemporary Southeast Asia, June 1995)
- Life and Death in the Bodleian, Brown Alumni Monthly, February 1992
- The History of Laughter and Forgetting: Trends in Soviet and East German Revisionist History (Clio, Spring 1990)
Select media interviews (video/audio)
- Metzl Sees China Prices, Real Estate as Economic Risks (Bloomberg Television, October 26, 2011) [15]
- Dan Ikenson, Jamie Metzl Debate U.S. Bill on China Yuan (Bloomberg Television, October 14, 2011) [16]
- President Aquino's Visit (Radio TV Malacanan, September 17, 2011) [17]
- China on the International Stage (Secure Freedom Radio, August 31, 2011) [18]
- Visiting China: Metzl gives a preview of Vice President Joe Biden's trip to China (CBS News, August 15, 2011) [19]
- Metzl Looks at Obama's Agenda During Hu Visit (CNN Parker/Spitzer, Jan 20, 2011) [20]
- Metzl Says Hu Visit 'Important Step' for U.S. and China (Bloomberg, Jan 19, 2011) [21]
- VP of Asia Society: Chinese Pres Hu Jintao's visit to U.S. is a 'big deal' (CNN American Morning, Jan 18, 2011) [22]
- President Hu Goes to Washington (CBS News, Jan 18, 2011) [23]
- Chinese President Hu Jintao visit critically important' (CNN, Jan 18, 2011) [24]
- U.S.- China Economic Issues (Bloomberg, Jan 12, 2011) [25]
- War between North and South 'unlikely' (CNN Parker/Spitzer, Dec 21, 2010) [26]
- Is China's Economy Growing Too Fast? (Fox Business, Dec 17, 2010) [27]
- North Korea's Provocation (CNN Parker/Spitzer, Nov 24, 2010) [28]
- Tension in Korea (CBS News, Nov 24, 2010) [29]
- Korean Crisis (CBS News, Nov 23, 2010) [30]
- Metzl says China's Yuan Policy a Legitimate US Concern (Bloomberg, Oct 15, 2010) [31]
- Metzl in conversation with Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister (Asia Society, Sep 27, 2010) [32]
- U.S., China, and other stakeholders must work together to address global challenges (Bloomberg, Sep 23, 2010) [33]
- On China's currency policy (Bloomberg, Sep 16, 2010) [34]
- Metzl says Afghanistan Strategy 'Coming into Question' (Bloomberg, June 23, 2010) [35]
- Power Play: on the meeting between Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai (Canadian TV, May 12, 2010) [36]
- China must be stakeholder in world economy (Bloomberg, Feb 12, 2010) [37]
- Toyota's Problems a Shame for Japan (ABC News, Feb 6, 2010) [38]
- Churches set ablaze as religious strife rages in Malaysia (PBS WorldFocus, Jan 12, 2010) [39]
- On President Obama's Afghanistan Strategy (The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, Dec 2, 2009) [40]
- U.S. Leader Faces Profound Diplomatic Challenges in China (PBS WorldFocus, Nov 16, 2009)[41]
- Afghans ambivalent about prospects of Nov. 7 runoff election (PBS WorldFocus, Oct 20, 2009) [42]
- North Korea Analysis (CNN, August 10, 2009) [43]
- New America, One Malaysia: Young Leaders and the Global Agenda for Change (Malaysiakini TV, June 2, 2009) [44]
- The Significance of the New ASEAN Charter (CNN Interview, December 16, 2008) [45]
- Ramifications of the Global Financial Crisis (PBS World Focus Interview, November 5, 2008) [46]
- CBS News Interview on China and the Olympics (July 2008) [47]
- Evaluating the Bhutanese parliamentary elections (CNN, March 24, 2008) [48]
- On Chinese yuan and U.S. Treasury report (Bloomberg, July 9, 2010) [49]
Congressional testimonies
- Can We Prevent the Arms Race of the Human Race: Addressing the National Security Challenges of the Genetic Revolution - Statement of Jamie F. Metzl before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Sub-Committee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation (June 19, 2008)[50]
- Testimony of Jamie Metzl Before the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, 2003 [51]
Task forces
- Growing Together Beats Falling Apart, An Asia Society Task Force Report, November 2010 (Task Force Advisory Group Member) [52]
- North Korea Inside Out: The Case for Economic Engagement, An Asia Society Task Force Report, December 2009 (Task Force Advisory Group Member) [53]
- Back from the Brink? A Strategy for Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan, An Asia Society Task Force Report, April 2009 (Project Director) [54]
- Delivering on the Promise: Advancing U.S. Relations with India, An Asia Society Task Force Report, January 2009 (Task Force Member) [55]
- The Forgotten Homeland, A Century Foundation Task Force Report, 2006 (Chapter Author). [56]
- Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Unprepared (with Warren Rudman and Richard Clarke), Council on Foreign Relations, July 2003 (Project Director). [57]
- State Department Reform, Council on Foreign Relations Press, February 2001 (Task Force Member) [58]
Select moderations
- Lobsang Sangay on What's Next for Tibet, Asia Society (July 22, 2011) [59]
- Can President Obama's New Afghanistan Strategy Succeed?, Asia Society (December 8, 2009) [60]
- Sri Lankan PM Ratnasiri Wickremanayake on Sri Lanka's Challenges, Asia Society (September 24, 2009) [61]
References
- ^ Jamie Metzl, Asia Society. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Jamie Metzl is Executive Vice President of Asia Society. He is responsible for overseeing the institution's strategic directions and overall program activities globally. An expert on Southeast Asian history and politics, he has extensive government experience, including service in the White House, the Department of State, and the US Senate."
- ^ Jorge, Ching. "The youth as a driving force for change", Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 13, 2008. Accessed November 1, 2011.
- ^ Staff. "Asia Society Announces 2009 Class of Asia 21 Fellows", ChinaTechnews.com, March 25, 2009. Accessed November 1, 2011. "'It is increasingly clear in today's rapidly changing world that cooperation between the people, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States will be critical to solving the world's greatest problems. To make this possible, we need new types of leaders from every country who can both understand the transnational nature of the challenges we face and work together to address them,' said Asia Society Executive Vice President Jamie Metzl, who spearheads the program."
- ^ a b Staff. "Learn how Asia is changing the world", Vail Daily, January 2, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011. "His government appointments have included deputy staff director and senior counselor of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, senior coordinator for international public information and director for multilateral and humanitarian affairs on the National Security Council."
- ^ Drake, William J.; and Metzl, Jamie. "Lecture Series: Winning Hearts and Minds: Propaganda and Public Diplomacy in the Information Age", Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, November 27, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Jamie F. Metzl recently completed a term as a Visiting Scholar in the Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics at the Carnegie Endowment. Previously he served as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council and as Senior Coordinator for International Public Information at the Department of State."
- ^ a b Staff. "Holdovers Held Up Security Strategy: Democratic partisans and Clinton holdovers such as Richard Clarke undermined the Bush team's crafting of a new national-security plan.", The Washington Times, April 26, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Metzl was a staffer on the Clinton NSC and worked for Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) as deputy staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
- ^ Curry, Dan. "Cleaver outlasts Metzl in 5th District race", The Examiner (Independence), August 4, 2004. Accessed January 5, 2008. "Cleaver defeated Metzl 72,530 (59.9 percent) to 48,531 (40.1 percent)."
- ^ a b Staff. Records on Presidential Decision Directive-68 (PDD-68)– Concerning International Public Information (IPI), Clinton Presidential Center, last modified April 27, 2007. Accessed November 3, 2011. "Director of Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs on the NSC, Jamie Metzl played a key role in getting President Clinton to sign PDD68 in April 1999. Metzl began his career as a White House Fellow assigned to the NSC and eventually wound up at the Department of State where he served as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. While at the NSC Metzl worked with Richard Clarke on issues relating to IPI in the cases of Rwanda, Iraq, and Kosovo."
- ^ Staff. "Information-control plan aimed at U.S., insider says: International agency to be used for `spinning the news'", The Washington Times, July 29, 1999. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Mr. Clinton in April issued Presidential Decision Directive 68, ordering the creation of the International Public Information (IPI) system... His aide, former White House fellow Jamie Metzl, largely wrote the plan and is now serving as IPI senior coordinator..."
- ^ Douglas, William. "A Sense of Relief, Vindication / U.S. officials hail TV images", Newsday, April 10, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011. "'The images are incredibly powerful, there's no doubt that they will have a catalytic effect,' said Jaime Metzl, who helped coordinate international information campaigns for Iraq and Kosovo during Bill Clinton's presidency."
- ^ Anthuvan, Augustine. "Former US National Security Council adviser's views on Libya situation", Channel NewsAsia, April 1, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Mr Metzl, who was also a human rights officer with the United Nations in Cambodia, said the price of inaction in Libya would have been far higher."
- ^ Jamie Metzl: Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Accessed November 1, 2011.
- ^ Staff. "U.S. Spending Against Terror Is Too Low, Report Warns", The New York Times, June 29, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Nearly two years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States is still not spending enough to prepare fire, police, rescue and medical agencies to handle another catastrophic attack, a study by the Council on Foreign Relations has found.... The report was written by a panel of experts led by Warren B. Rudman, a former senator from New Hampshire, and directed by Jamie Metzl, a senior fellow at the center and a former staff member at the National Security Council and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
- ^ "Meet The Press: Warren Rudman, Mary Matalin, Jamie Metzl, James Carville", Meet the Press, June 29, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011.
- ^ Dion, Marc Munroe. "Asian expert knows his story: Characters a bit flat in well-plotted political thriller", Kansas City Star, May 30, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Metzl, then, is eminently qualified to have written The Depths of the Sea, a short novel about morally murky doings on the Thai-Cambodian border in 1979."
- ^ "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
- ^ see http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=viewAuthorPublications&authorID=91&carAuth=1, and http://democracyjournal.com/article.php?ID=6586
- ^ Stearns, Matt. "Politicians mull opposing McCarthy in '04 primary", Kansas City Star, July 24, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Metzl, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has worked on Capitol Hill, at the State Department and at the White House."
- ^ Matthews, Mark via The Baltimore Sun. Darkyears for Cambodia and for U.S. too", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 18, 1998. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Then, in mid-1975 it "virtually dropped out of the news," according to Jamie Frederic Metzl, now a White House fellow."
- ^ 2002 Six Degrees Class, Aspen Institute. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Jamie F. Metzl, Executive Vice President, The Asia Society, New York, NY.... He is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute."
- ^ "French-American Foundation Weekly Brief, December 19, 2008", French-American Foundation, December 19, 2008. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Jamie F. Metzl, former member of the U.S. National Security Council and French-American Foundation Young Leader, argued in the Daily Star that the United States should remain a global leader and that the world is 'not ready' for a post-American era."
- ^ Staff. "Dangerously vulnerable", The Register-Guard, September 10, 2008. Accessed November 1, 2011."A new independent study by the bipartisan Partnership for a Secure America says the United States remains "dangerously vulnerable" to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."
- ^ About Jamie Metzl, Partnership for a Secure America. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Jamie Metzl is Co-Chairman of the PSA Board and Executive Vice President of the Asia Society."
- ^ Jamie F. Metzl -Director, HIAS. Accessed November 1, 2011.
- ^ International Advisory Board Members, Brandeis University International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Jamie Metzl, Executive Vice President, Asia Society, New York, NY"
- ^ Afghanistan Election Mission with National Democratic Institute, August 2009
- ^ Philippines Pre-Elections Assessment Mission with National Democratic Institute, March 2010
- ^ Campbell, Matt; and Kraske, Steve. "Metzl's ambition praised, criticized", Kansas City Star, June 26, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011. "He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, has a doctorate in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University and a law degree from Harvard."
- ^ Staff. "World-renowned Expert on Asia to Give Free Lecture at The Barstow School", The Barstow School, October 3, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Dr. Jamie F. Metzl ’86 will be returning to The Barstow School as an Alumni Scholar in Residence at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12, 2011, in Price Student Hall on Barstow’s Campus as part of The Barstow School’s Global Speakers Series."
- ^ Basheer, K.P.M. "Putting creative minds together", The Hindu, March 14, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011. "amie F. Metzl is a long-haul guy. He has completed four Ironman triathlons - 4-km swim, non-stop; then, 180-km bicycling, non-stop; and then, 42-km race, non-stop. He has also completed 20 marathons."
- ^ "Tête-à-tête: America’s role in a fast-changing Asia", Singapore Institute of International Affairs, May 18, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011. "Dr. Metzl has completed seven ironman triathlons, 25 marathons, and one ultramarathon."
- ^ Shetty, Vinita A. "Marathon man", Daily News and Analysis Mumbai, May 2, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011. "I've done 25 marathons, seven Iron Man triathlons, and one ultra marathon in February this year, which was a 50km race all through hills and pure mud."
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