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Jamie Frederic Metzl is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society
Asia Society
The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States and around the world Hong Kong, Manila, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, and Melbourne...

 and was formally the Asia Society’s Executive Vice President. In this capacity, he was responsible for overseeing the institution's strategic directions and overall program activities globally. He developed and led the Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative, the organization's Pan-Asia-Pacific leadership development program.

Metzl served as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs for the National Security Council
United States National Security Council
The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...

 during the Clinton Administration, worked for the Clinton Administration in the United States Department of State
United States Department of State
The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...

 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 Joe Biden
Joe Biden
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.

In 2004, Metzl ran unsuccessfully against former Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

 Mayor Emanuel Cleaver
Emanuel Cleaver
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 for the Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
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 nomination for Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

's Fifth Congressional District
United States Congressional Delegations from Missouri
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.

Career

Metzl served as Deputy Staff Director and Senior Counselor of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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, 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
White House
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, he was the primary drafter of Presidential Decision Directive 68 on International Public Information and coordinated public information campaigns for Iraq
Iraq
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 and Kosovo
Kosovo
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. From 1991 to 1993, Metzl was a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia was a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Cambodia in 1992–93. It was also the first occasion on which the UN had taken over the administration of an independent state, organized and run an election , had its own radio station and jail,...

 (UNTAC), where he helped establish a human rights investigation and monitoring unit for Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

.

In 2003, Metzl directed a Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...

 study 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 has been featured as a commentator in the American and international media, including BBC
BBC
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, CNN
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, Bloomberg
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, and Fox News Channel
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. He has appeared on Meet the Press
Meet the Press
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 together with Warren Rudman
Warren Rudman
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, 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
The New York Times
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'Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
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 and many other publications.' He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
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, 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
Partnership for a Secure America
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, serves on the board of the Jewish refugee organization HIAS
HIAS
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society was founded in 1881. The constant flow of Jewish immigrants from Russia gave birth to the society. HIAS assists Jews and other groups of people whose lives and freedom are at risk, through rescue, relocation, family reunification, and resettlement. Since its inception...

, and the Brandeis University International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, and has served as an election monitor in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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 and the Philippines
Philippines
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.

Education and background

Metzl is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University
Brown University
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. He also holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University and a J.D.
Juris Doctor
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 from Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
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. He attended high school at The Barstow School
The Barstow School
The Barstow School, founded in 1884 by Mary Louise Barstow, is a nonsectarian, coeducational, independent preparatory school in southern Kansas City, Missouri, USA.The Barstow School enrolls approximately 650 students from Preschool through Grade 12...

 in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1986.

He has completed multiple ironman triathlons and marathons, as well as one ultramarathon.

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  • Popular diplomacy (Daedalus, Vol. 128, 1999) http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5001266055
  • Searching for the Catalog of Catalogs (Daedalus, Vol. 125, 1996) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R4yFzK-UnpmLn8RxG88Gxo6nFPY7ajasfCVg0wSM9v0/edit?hl=en#
  • 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)
  • The History of Laughter and Forgetting: Trends in Soviet and East German Revisionist History (Clio, Spring 1990)

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