Jamie Metzl

Jamie Frederic Metzl (born July 1, 1968) is an American geopolitical commentator, author, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a former partner at the global investment company Cranemere LLC,.Vail Symposium: Is the Red Dragon Breathing Fire? Rising China and the Changing Global Order with Jamie Metz

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HIAS, The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 13, 2013. Accessed May 17, 2016. He is the author of five books, including the science fiction novels, ''Genesis Code'' and ''Eternal Sonata'', and the non-fiction work, ''Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity''. In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully against former Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver for the Democratic nomination for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District.

Formerly, he was the executive vice president of the Asia Society. He developed and led the Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative, a Pan-Asia-Pacific leadership development program. Metzl served the Clinton administration as director for multilateral and humanitarian affairs for the National Security Council,Staff
"Learn how Asia is changing the world"
''Vail Daily'', January 2, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011. working for the Clinton administration in the United States Department of State as senior advisor to the undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs and information technology and senior coordinator for international public information, and was also deputy staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then Senator Joe Biden.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.

Early life and education

He was born to Marilyn Metzl, a clinical psychologist, and Kurt Metzl, a pediatrician. He attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a '' magna cum laude'' and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. He holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University (1994), and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Career

Metzl 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.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. In the Clinton administration, he was the primary drafter of Presidential Decision Directive 68 on International Public Information and coordinated public information campaigns for Iraq and Kosovo. From 1991 to 1993, Metzl was a human rights officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), where he helped establish a human rights investigation and monitoring unit for Cambodia.Jamie Metzl: Visiting Scholar
, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Accessed November 1, 2011.

In 2003, Metzl directed a Council on Foreign Relations study led by Warren B. Rudman that concluded that the United States was not doing enough to prepare first responders to handle a catastrophic attack.Staff
"U.S. Spending Against Terror Is Too Low, Report Warns"
''The New York Times'', June 29, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011. He appeared on ''Meet the Press'', discussing the topic.

He has been featured as a commentator in the American and international media, including BBC
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