Jamie Metzl

Jamie F. Metzl

Jamie F. Metzl is Executive Vice President of the Asia Society, where he is responsible for overseeing the institution's strategic directions and overall program activities globally. He developed and leads the Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative, the pre-eminent Pan-Asia-Pacific leadership development program.

Metzl served as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs for the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration, 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, and was also Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then Senator Joseph Biden.

In 2004, Metzl ran unsuccessfully against former Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver for the Democratic nomination for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District.

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. At the Clinton White House, 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.

In 2003, Metzl directed a Council on Foreign Relations 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.

Metzl appears regularly in the American and international media, including BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and Fox News. He has also appeared on Meet the Press. He authored a book on human rights in Southeast Asia and the novel The Depths of the Sea[3], and his writing has been published in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs and many other publications. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former White House Fellow, Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, and French-American Foundation Young Leader. He is a Founder and Co-Chairman of the Board of bipartisan national security NGO the Partnership for a Secure America, serves on the board of HIAS, the Jewish refugee organization and the Brandeis University International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life. He is also a mentor for the Harvard University Center for Public Interest Careers and has served as an election monitor in Afghanistan and the Philippines .

Education and background

Metzl holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. He attended high school at the Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri.

He has completed eight ironman triathlons, twenty marathons, and one ultramarathon.

Books

• Jamie Frederic Metzl (May, 2004). The Depths of the Sea. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 031232202X. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Jamie Frederic Metzl (1996). Western Responses to Abuses in Cambodia, 1975-80. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0333643259.

Syndicated Columns (multiple publications)

• 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

• Judgment at Wikipedia, Brown Alumni Magazine, March 2010
• My Hamid Karzai Daydream, Huffington Post, October 1, 2009
• Marriage Counseling for the United States and Russia, Huffington Post, February 27, 2009 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |coauthor= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Three Quick Steps to Jump-Start America's Public Diplomacy, Huffington Post, January 15, 2009
• Allying America and Asia, Forbes, November 25, 2008
• Rethinking Asia-Pacific Relations, Far Eastern Economic Review, November 24, 2008
• Life: Coming to a Screen Near You, World Policy Journal, Fall 2008
• Beijing's Triumph of Engineering, Far Eastern Economic Review, August 26, 2008
• A Call for Action on Burma, May 14, 2008
• Brave New World War, Spring, 2008 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Guerra en el mundo feliz (Spanish translation of "Brave New World War", p. 238
• Metzl, Jamie (2008), "Too Fast, Too High, Too Strong", The Washington Post
• Metzl, Jamie F (October 1, 2007), Chinese chequers, The Guardian
• Defusing the HIV/AIDS time bomb, May 6, 2006
• U.S. Can No Longer Afford Isolation, Newsday, September 20, 2001
• U.S. Must Win Battle of Images, The Baltimore Sun, October 3, 2001
• Let Private Firms Aid UN Nation-building, The Christian Science Monitor, August 13, 2001
• Perils of Secrecy in an Information Age, iMP Magazine, July 2001
• Can Public Diplomacy Rise from the Ashes?, Foreign Service Journal, July–August 2001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
• Runners of East Timor Have Emerged as Symbols of Independence, The New York Times, May 27, 2001
• Network Diplomacy, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2001 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• For a Digital Marshall Plan, Christian Science Monitor, March 28, 2001
• Popular diplomacy (Daedalus, Vol. 128, 1999) [13]
• Information Intervention: When Switching Channels Isn't Enough, Foreign Affairs, 1997
• Rwandan Genocide and the International Law of Radio Jamming, American Journal of International Law, October 1997
• 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 (Videos)

• Metzl says China's Yuan Policy a Legitimate US Concern (Bloomberg, Oct 15, 2010) [15]
• Metzl in conversation with Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister (Asia Society, Sep 27, 2010) [16]
• U.S., China, and other stakeholders must work together to address global challenges (Bloomberg, Sep 23, 2010) [17]
• On China's currency policy (Bloomberg, Sep 16, 2010) [18]
• Metzl says Afghanistan Strategy 'Coming into Question' (Bloomberg, June 23, 2010) [19]
• Power Play: on the meeting between Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai (Canadian TV, May 12, 2010) [20]
• China must be stakeholder in world economy (Bloomberg, Feb 12, 2010) [21]
• Toyota's Problems a Shame for Japan (ABC News, Feb 6, 2010) [22]
• Churches set ablaze as religious strife rages in Malaysia (PBS WorldFocus, Jan 12, 2010) [23]
• On President Obama's Afghanistan Strategy (The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, Dec 2, 2009) [24]
• U.S. Leader Faces Profound Diplomatic Challenges in China (PBS WorldFocus, Nov 16, 2009)[25]
• Afghans ambivalent about prospects of Nov. 7 runoff election (PBS WorldFocus, Oct 20, 2009) [26]
• North Korea Analysis (CNN, August 10, 2009) [27]
• New America, One Malaysia: Young Leaders and the Global Agenda for Change (Malaysiakini TV, June 2, 2009) [28]
• The Significance of the New ASEAN Charter (CNN Interview, December 16, 2008) [29]
• Ramifications of the Global Financial Crisis (PBS World Focus Interview, November 5, 2008) [30]
• CBS News Interview on China and the Olympics (July 2008) [31]
• Evaluating the Bhutanese parliamentary elections (CNN, March 24, 2008) [32]
• On Chinese yuan and U.S. Treasury report (Bloomberg, July 9, 2010) [33]

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)[34]
• Testimony of Jamie Metzl Before the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, 2003 [35]

Task Forces

• North Korea Inside Out: The Case for Economic Engagement, An Asia Society Task Force Report, December 2009 (Task Force Advisory Group Member) [36]
• Back from the Brink? A Strategy for Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan, An Asia Society Task Force Report, April 2009 (Project Director) [37]
• Delivering on the Promise: Advancing U.S. Relations with India, An Asia Society Task Force Report, January 2009 (Task Force Member) [38]
• The Forgotten Homeland, A Century Foundation Task Force Report, 2006 (Chapter Author). [39]
• Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Unprepared (with Warren Rudman and Richard Clarke), Council on Foreign Relations, July 2003 (Project Director). [40]
• State Department Reform, Council on Foreign Relations Press, February 2001 (Task Force Member) [41]

Select Moderations

• Can President Obama's New Afghanistan Strategy Succeed?, Asia Society (December 8, 2009) [42]
• Sri Lankan PM Ratnasiri Wickremanayake on Sri Lanka's Challenges, Asia Society (September 24, 2009) [43]

External links

• 5 Imperatives for G20 [44]
• USC Center on Public Diplomacy Profile
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum biography
• Source Watch profile
• Marathon Man (DNA Bangalore, March 2010) [45]