American geopolitical commentator and author
Jamie Frederic Metzl (born July 1, 1968)
[1] is an American geopolitical commentator, author, and former
Clinton administration official. He is the author of five books, including science fiction novels and non-fiction.
Early life and education
Metzl was born to Marilyn Metzl, a clinical psychologist, and Kurt Metzl, a pediatrician.
[2]
[3] He attended high school at
The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri.
[4] He graduated from
Brown University .
[5] He holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from
Oxford University (1994),
[6] and a
J.D. from
Harvard Law School .
[7] He was a
White House Fellow .
[8]
Career
From 1991 to 1993, Metzl was a human rights officer for the
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC),
[9] where he helped establish a human rights investigation and monitoring unit for
Cambodia .
[10] [
third-party source needed ]
Metzl served as deputy staff director and senior counselor of the
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations ,
[11] senior coordinator for international public information and senior advisor to the
undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs at the Department of State,
[12] and director of multilateral and humanitarian affairs on the National Security Council.
[12] In the Clinton administration, he was the primary drafter of Presidential Decision Directive 68 on International Public Information
[13] and coordinated public information campaigns for
Iraq and
Kosovo .
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dead link ] [
verification needed ]
In 2003, Metzl directed a
Council on Foreign Relations study led by
Warren B. Rudman that concluded that the United States was not doing enough to prepare
first responders to handle a catastrophic attack.
[15]
In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully against former
Kansas City Mayor
Emanuel Cleaver for the
Democratic nomination for
Missouri 's
Fifth Congressional District .
[16]
Metzl is a senior fellow at the
Atlantic Council ,
[17] and a former partner at the global investment company Cranemere LLC,.
[18]
[19] [
third-party source needed ] He was an executive vice president of the
Asia Society .
[20] [
when? ]
He authored a book on human rights in Southeast Asia and the novel The Depths of the Sea.
[21] He is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations .
[22]
In 2019, Metzl was appointed to the
WHO advisory committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing.
[23]
[24]
Metzl has been a vocal proponent of the
COVID-19 lab leak theory .
[25] In March 2023, he testified at the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic invited by US House
Republicans .
[26]
Personal life
He is a marathon runner and triathlete.
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[28]
[29]
For the Brown Alumni Magazine , Metzl wrote a 2010 article describing the "narcissistic pleasure" he derived from having a Wikipedia page and how he asked an assistant to "occasionally add a link to the site".
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Profiles
Works
References
^ Cleary, Tom.
"Jamie Metzl: 25 Questions Answered" ,
Heavy.com . Accessed June 25, 2023. "Jamie Metzl was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 1, 1968."
^
Haaratz: "Hurricane Sandy Sweeps Away N.Y. Marathon, Makes Way for Tikkun Olam" by Danna Harman November 5, 2012
^
Beyond the Bris: "Delving into Genesis Code: An Interview With Jamie Metzl" retrieved November 4, 2017
^ Staff.
"World-renowned Expert on Asia to Give Free Lecture at The Barstow School" ,
The Barstow School , October 3, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Staff.
"Learn how Asia is changing the world" ,
Vail Daily , January 2, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^
British Library ETHOS PhD database
^ Campbell, Matt; and Kraske, Steve.
"Metzl's ambition praised, criticized" ,
Kansas City Star , June 26, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Matthews, Mark via
The Baltimore Sun .
Darkyears for Cambodia and for U.S. too" ,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , April 18, 1998. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Anthuvan, Augustine.
"Former US National Security Council adviser's views on Libya situation" ,
Channel NewsAsia , April 1, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^
Jamie Metzl: Visiting Scholar
Archived 2011-10-20 at the
Wayback Machine ,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Staff.
"Holdovers Held Up Security Strategy: Democratic partisans and Clinton holdovers such as Richard Clarke undermined the Bush team's crafting of a new national-security plan." ,
The Washington Times , April 26, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^
a
b Staff.
Records on Presidential Decision Directive-68 (PDD-68)– Concerning International Public Information (IPI)
Archived 2011-10-21 at the
Wayback Machine ,
Clinton Presidential Center , last modified April 27, 2007. Accessed November 3, 2011.
^ Staff.
"Information-control plan aimed at U.S., insider says: International agency to be used for `spinning the news'" ,
The Washington Times , July 29, 1999. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Douglas, William.
"A Sense of Relief, Vindication / U.S. officials hail TV images" ,
Newsday , April 10, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Staff.
"U.S. Spending Against Terror Is Too Low, Report Warns" ,
The New York Times , June 29, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Curry, Dan.
"Cleaver outlasts Metzl in 5th District race"
Archived 2004-12-26 at the
Wayback Machine ,
The Examiner (Independence) , August 4, 2004. Accessed January 5, 2008. "Cleaver defeated Metzl 72,530 (59.9 percent) to 48,531 (40.1 percent)."
^
"Jamie Metzl" . Atlantic Council . Retrieved September 10, 2023 .
^ Vail Symposium: Is the Red Dragon Breathing Fire? Rising China and the Changing Global Order with Jamie Metzl
[1]
^
Jamie F. Metzl -Director ,
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society , backed up by the
Internet Archive as of December 13, 2013. Accessed May 17, 2016.
^
Jamie Metzl
Archived 2011-11-18 at the
Wayback Machine ,
Asia Society . Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Dion, Marc Munroe.
"Asian expert knows his story: Characters a bit flat in well-plotted political thriller" ,
Kansas City Star , May 30, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Stearns, Matt.
"Politicians mull opposing McCarthy in '04 primary" ,
Kansas City Star , July 24, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ World Health Organization (March 19, 2019).
WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing: REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING (Report). World Health Organization. Retrieved June 26, 2023 .
^
"BBC World News - BBC News with Katty and Christian, Former US security official wants China to be forthcoming about Covid-19 origin" . BBC . June 8, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2023 .
^
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay ; and Mueller, Benjamin.
"Lab Leak or Not? How Politics Shaped the Battle Over Covid’s Origin" ,
The New York Times , March 19, 2023. Accessed June 25, 2023.
^ Lenharo, Mariana; Wolf, Lauren (March 9, 2023).
"US COVID-origins hearing renews debate over lab-leak hypothesis" . Nature . 615 (7952): 380–381.
doi :
10.1038/d41586-023-00701-1 .
PMID
36890328 .
S2CID
257426722 .
^ Basheer, K.P.M.
"Putting creative minds together" ,
The Hindu , March 14, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^
"Tête-à-tête: America’s role in a fast-changing Asia" ,
Singapore Institute of International Affairs , May 18, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ Shetty, Vinita A.
"Marathon man" ,
Daily News and Analysis Mumbai , May 2, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011.
^ [Metzl, Jamie.
"Judgment at Wikipedia" , Brown Alumni Magazine , March–April 2010, backed up by the
Internet Archive as of April 7, 2010. Accessed February 1, 2022.
^ Frederic, Metzl, Jamie (November 4, 2014).
Genesis code : a thriller of the near future (First ed.). New York.
ISBN
9781628724233 .
OCLC
868648683 . {{
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^ Frederic, Metzl, Jamie (2019). Hacking Darwin : genetic engineering and the future of humanity . Naperville, Illinois.
ISBN
9781492670094 .
OCLC
1040198428 . {{
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