The Secretary's Open Forum Presents Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Topic: U.S.-Europe: Estranged Partners

Washington, DC, December 7, 2001 - On January 11, 2002, The Open Forum's Distinguished Lecture Series presents Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her topic is U.S.-Europe: Estranged Partners.

This program will take place from 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. at the U.S. Department of State in the Loy Henderson Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public. Please complete the registration form at the end of this release.

About the Speaker

Jessica Tuchman Mathews was appointed president of the Endowment in 1997. Her career includes posts in the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the non-profit arena, and in journalism.

She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997 and served as director of the Councils 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 journals 75 years.

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 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 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 has also written for the New York Times, Foreign Policy, 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 and co-authored and edited Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership.

Ms. Mathews is a director of Somalogic Inc.; and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation; The Century Foundation; the Nuclear Threat Initiative; and the Transportation Policy Project, a national coalition working on domestic transportation issues, of which she was a co-founder. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the International Advisory Board of the Center for International Development at Harvard University. She has previously served on the boards of The Brookings Institution, Radcliffe College, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Joyce Foundation among others.

Ms. Mathews 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.

About the Secretarys Open Forum

The Secretarys Open Forum was established by Secretary of State Dean Rusk in 1967 during U.S. involvement in the Vietnam Conflict. Since its inception, The Open Forum Speakers Program has helped to stimulate creative thinking on vital policy issues.

Through its Conversations with America Series and Distinguished Lecture Program, the Open Forum explores important questions related to U.S. national interests and honors leaders in government, academia, private industry, and the NGO community for contributions to international affairs. Elected by employees of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Open Forum Chairperson serves directly under the Secretary of State.

Past speakers include: Senator Bill Frist (R-Tennessee); Richard Lugar (R-Indiana); Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii); General Henry Shelton; General Richard B. Myers; General Wesley Clark; Ms. Dana Priest, The Washington Post; Leon Fuerth, National Security Advisor to former Vice President Gore; Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM); Dr. William Perry, Secretary of Defense (1994-1997); and Mr. Frank C. Carlucci, Secretary of Defense (1987-1989), National Security Advisor (1987) and Chairman of the Independent Task Force on State Department Reform (2001).

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