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james K. Glassman's career has spanned journalism, business, academia, and diplomacy. He is a recognized expert on economics, technology, and public policy, and has written and spoken on these areas to audiences around the world.
Ambassador Glassman is the Founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, dedicated to research and action in four areas: education, global health, human freedom, and economic growth. The Institute is part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which will also include a library and museum, on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
He served from June 2008 to January 2009 as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, leading the government-wide international strategic communications effort. Among his accomplishments at the State Department was to bring new Internet technology to bear on outreach to foreign publics, an approach he christened "Public Diplomacy 2.0."
Prior to his State Department post, from June 2007 to June 2008, he was chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which directs all non-military, taxpayer-funded U.S. international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Alhurra TV. He continued to serve as a governor of the BBG, representing the Secretary of State, from June 2008 to January 2009.
Between 1996 and 2008, he was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, foucsing on economic policy. He was formerly a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Intel Corp. and was a Senior Advisor to AT&T Corp. and SAP America, Inc.
Since February 2010, he has been moderator of "Ideas in Action," a weekly series on public policy issues, aired on more than 100 public television stations around the country. He was previously moderator of two weekly TV programs in the late 1990s: "Capital Gang Sunday" on CNN and "TechnoPolitics" on PBS.
For the 2009-2010 school year, he is Diplomat-in-Residence at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, where he teaches a course on public diplomacy to undergraduates.
Ambassador Glassman has had a long career as a journalist and publisher. He served as president of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, publisher of the New Republic magazine, executive vice president of U.S.News & World Report, and editor and co-owner of Roll Call, the congressional newspaper. Between 1993 and 2004, he was a columnist for the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. Shortly after graduating from college, he started Figaro, a weekly newspaper in New Orleans.
He has given speeches in important venues internationally, including the National Press Club, the Detroit Economic Club, and Chatham House in London.
He has written two books on investing. His third will be published by Crown in December 2010. His articles on finance, economics, and foreign policy have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications.
He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was managing editor of the daily newspaper, The Crimson. He is married to Beth Ourisman Glassman and has two children, two stepchildren, and three grandchildren. He lives in Bethesda, Md., and Falls Village, Conn.
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