Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Jessica Tuchman Mathews has been President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank based in Washington DC, since 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 Council’s Washington program. While there, she published her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, “Power Shift”, chosen by one of the editors as one of the most influential in the journal’s 75 years.

From 1982 to 1993, she was founding vice president and director of research at the World Resources Institute, an internationally known centre 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.

Dr. Mathews is a director of Somalogic Inc. and Hanesbrands 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 American Philosophical Society. She has previously served on the boards of the Brookings Institution, Radcliffe College, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Surface Transportation Policy Project and the Joyce Foundation, among others.