Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international research organization with offices in Washington, DC, Moscow, Beijing, Beirut and Brussels. Mathews, who holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology, has held positions in the executive and legislative branches, in management and research in the nonprofit arena and in journalism.

She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997 and served as director of the Council’s Washington program. During that time her Foreign Affairs article, “Power Shift,” was chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journal’s 75 years. From 1982 to 1993, Mathews 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.

She served on the editorial board of The Washington Post from 1980 to 1982, covering energy, environment, science, technology, health and arms control issues. Later, she became a weekly columnist for The Washington Post.

From 1977 to 1979, she was the director of the Office of Global Issues of the National Security Council, covering nuclear proliferation, conventional arms sales policy, chemical and biological warfare and human rights. In 1993, she returned to government as deputy to the under secretary of state for global affairs.