Jamie Frederic Metzl is an American technology futurist, geopolitical expert, and writer, a former partner in the global investment company Cranemere LLC, and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He was formerly the Asia Society's Executive Vice President. He developed and led the Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative, the organization's Pan-Asia-Pacific leadership development program. He is the author of five books, including the science fiction novelsGenesis Code and Eternal Sonata and the non-fiction work, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity. Metzl served the Clinton Administration, serving as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs for the National Security Council, working for the Clinton Administration in the United States Department of State 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 Joe Biden.
Early life and education
Metzl is the son of Kurt, a pediatrician, and Marilyn, a clinical psychologist. He is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. For the Brown Alumni magazine, Metzl wrote an article describing having a Wikipedia page about himself as a "narcissistic pleasure" and how he had asked an assistant to edit it on multiple occasions. He also holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri.
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. 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, where he helped establish a human rights investigation and monitoring unit for Cambodia. In 2003, Metzl directed a Council on Foreign Relations study which argued that the United States was not doing enough to prepare first responders to handle another catastrophic attack. Metzl has been featured as a commentator in the American and international media, including BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and Fox News Channel. He has appeared on Meet the Press, discussing how emergency responders being drastically underfunded and dangerously unprepared. He authored a book on human rights in Southeast Asia and the novel The Depths of the Sea, 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 bipartisan national security NGO the Partnership for a Secure America, has served on the board of the Jewish refugee organization HIAS, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and the Brandeis University International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, and has served as an election monitor in Afghanistan and the Philippines. He is the former chairman of the international advisory committee to the Mongolian Ministry of Nature, Environment, and Tourism and the former is Honorary Ambassador to North America of the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy. In 2004, Metzl ran unsuccessfully against former Kansas City MayorEmanuel Cleaver for the Democratic nomination for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District.
Personal life
He has completed 13 Ironman triathlons and 30 marathons, as well as 15 ultramarathons.
Profiles
Marathon Man
아시아 차세대 리더들, 한국서 배울 점 많아
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Works
Books
Jamie Frederic Metzl Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, Sourcebooks. '
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
