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Dr Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Member of the Governing Board

Dr Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Dr Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Dr Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s President from 1997 until 2005. She was director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Washington program and a senior fellow from 1994 to 1997. From 1982 to 1993, she was founding vice president and director of research of the World Resources Institute, an internationally known center for policy research on environmental and natural resource management issues. From 1977 to 1979, she was director of the Office of Global Issues at the National Security Council, covering nuclear proliferation, conventional arms sales, and human rights. She has served in the U.S. State Department and on the National Security Council staff in the White House.
 

Education

PhD in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology; Magna cum laude graduate from Radcliffe College