The Secretary's Open Forum PresentsJessica Tuchman Mathews

Washington, DC, December 7, 2001 "On January 11, 2002, The Open Forum Distinguished Lecture Series presents Jessica Tuchman Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Its subject is the US-Europe: Estranged Partners.This program will take place from 12 : 00 - 1:00 pm at the U.S. Department of State in the Loy Henderson Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public. Complete the registration form at the end of this release.About the Speaker Jessica Tuchman Mathews was appointed president of the donation in 1997. Her career includes positions in the executive and legislative powers of government, management and research in the non-profit arena, and in journalism.She is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997 and was a director of the Washington Council program. While there, she published her groundbreaking 1997 article in Foreign Affairs, "Power Shift", chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in 75 of the magazine years.From 1982-1993 She was founding Vice President and Director of Research of the World Resources Institute, an internationally known center for research in environmental and natural resource management issues.She served on the editorial board of the Washington Post from 1980 to 1982, relating to 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, where the spread of nuclear weapons, conventional arms sales policy, chemical and biological warfare, and human rights. In 1993 she returned to government as deputy to the Secretary of State for Global Affairs.She has also written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and other science journals and foreign policy. She is co-editor, The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and regional changes in the biosphere in the past 300 years and co-authored and edited Preserving the Global Environment: the challenge of shared Leadership.Ms. Mathews is 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 to domestic transport issues, which they co-founder. She is also 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 under others.Ms. Mathews graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1967 and earned a doctorate in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology in 1973.About the Secretary's Open Forum Open ForumThe Secretary was established by Secretary of State Dean Rusk in 1967 during the American involvement in the Vietnam conflict. Since its inception, the Open Forum Speakers Program "has helped to think creatively about important political issues to promote. Through his conversations with American and Distinguished Lecture Series Program, the Open Forum explores important issues related to U.S. national interests and honor leaders in government, academia, private sector and the NGO community for contributions to international affairs. Chosen by members of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Open Forum chairman, directly under the minister. 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, Miss 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 Reform of the State Department (2001). Application Open Forum Open Forum Visitors should arrive at the 23rd Street entrance of the Harry S Truman Building U.S. State Department (between C and D Streets, NW). The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security requires the following information: Name: Birthdate: Social Security # or Passport: Citizenship: Phone: Fax: E-Mail: Organization / Agency: Please send registration information via e-mail to: A. Lang@state.gov or fax (202) 647-4040. Registration is not required for persons with State Department identification badges.