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Jessica Mathews Born Jessica Tuchman Mathews
July 4, 1946Nationality United States Alma mater Radcliffe College, A.B. 1967
Caltech, Ph.D. 1973Employer Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997-present Home town New York, New York Title Director, National Security Council Office of Global Issues Term 1977-1979 Board member of Editorial board, Washington Post, 1980-1982 Spouse General Charles G. Boyd Parents -Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, historian, Pulitzer Prize winner
-Lester Tuchman, MD, professor Mount Sinai School of MedicineJessica Tuchman Mathews (born 1946) is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank in Washington D.C.[1] 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.
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Biography
Jessica Tuchman Matthews was born on July 4, 1946 to Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989), historian and Pulitzer Prize winner,[2] and Lester Tuchman (c.1904-1997), medical researcher and professor of clinical medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.[3]
Mathews attended Radcliffe College (1963-1967), earning her A.B. magna cum laude in 1967. She continued her education in biochemistry and biophysics at California Institute of Technology (1968-1973), receiving her doctorate in 1973.[2]
From 1977 to 1979, she was director of the Office of Global Issues of the National Security Council,[2] 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,[2] 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,[2] an internationally known center for policy research on environmental and natural-resource management issues.[4]
She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997[2] and served as director of the Council’s Washington program.[5] 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.[6]
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. She is also a guiding coalition member of the Project on National Security Reform.
Family
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.
Associations
In June 2010 Mathews was an invitee of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Spanish 2010 Bilderberg conference at the Hotel Dolce in Sitges, Spain.[7]
Bibliography
- 'Power Shift', Foreign Affairs January/ February 1997
Notes
- ^ "Carnegie Endowment Proposal to Back Weapons Inspectors in Iraq With a U.N. Military Troop of 50,000". All Things Considered. NPR. September 5, 2002. http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/transcripts/2002/sep/020905.kelemen.html. Retrieved November 6, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f Reinert, Patty (February 6, 2008). "Power Profile: Carnegie's Jessica Tuchman Mathews". The Examiner. http://www.examiner.com/a-1203765~Power_Profile__Carnegie_s_Jessica_Tuchman_Mathews.html. Retrieved November 23, 2008.[dead link]
- ^ "Obituary: Lester Tuchman, Internist and Professor, 93". New York Times. December 19, 1997. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E2D81E3FF93AA25751C1A961958260&scp=1&sq=Lester+Tuchman&st=nyt. Retrieved November 23, 2008.
- ^ "Spy Satellite Photos May Aid In Global Environment Study". New York Times. May 7, 1992. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0D71331F934A35756C0A964958260. Retrieved November 6, 2008.
- ^ Ross, Eric B. (July 5, 1994). "A Malthusian Premise Empties the Countryside". International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/1994/07/05/edross.php. Retrieved November 6, 2008.[dead link]
- ^ Naidoo, Kumi (May 8, 2000). "The New Civic Globalism". The Nation. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27676824_ITM. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
- ^ "Bilderberg 2010 list of participants". BilderbergMeetings.org. http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants_2010.html. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
External links
- "Jessica Tuchman Matthews, President". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=18&prog=zgp. Retrieved March 15, 2006.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Jessica Mathews on Charlie Rose
- Jessica Mathews at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about Jessica Mathews in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Reinert, Patty (February 6, 2008). "Power Profile: Carnegie's Jessica Tuchman Mathews". The Examiner. http://www.examiner.com/a-1203765~Power_Profile__Carnegie_s_Jessica_Tuchman_Mathews.html. Retrieved November 23, 2008.[dead link]
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