Dr. Allan E Goodman 

Dr. Goodman is the sixth President of the Institute of International Education (IIE), the leading not-for-profit organization in the field of international educational exchange and development training. IIE administers the Fulbright program, sponsored by the United States Department of State, and 200 other corporate, government and privately-sponsored programs. 

Previously, he was Executive Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of books on international affairs published by Harvard, Princeton and Yale University Presses and Diversity in Governance, published by the American Council on Education. Dr. Goodman also served as Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director of Central Intelligence and as Special Assistant to the Director of the National Foreign Assessment Center in the Carter Administration. He was the first American professor to lecture at the Foreign Affairs College of Beijing. Dr. Goodman also helped create the first U.S. academic exchange program with the Moscow Diplomatic Academy for the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs and developed the diplomatic training program of the Foreign Ministry of Vietnam. Dr. Goodman has also served as a consultant to Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the United States Information Agency, and IBM. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Goodman has a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard, an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.S. from Northwestern University. Dr. Goodman also holds an honorary doctorate from Toyota University. He has been awarded honorary doctor of laws from Mount Ida and Ramapo Colleges and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from The State University of New York to recognize his work in rescuing threatened scholars, and he has received awards from Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and Tufts universities. Dr. Goodman was awarded the title “Chevalier” of the French Legion of Honour on April 23, 2007.

Bruce Gregory is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches a graduate seminar on public diplomacy in the Master of Foreign Service Program.  He is also an adjunct professor at George Washington University, where he teaches courses on media, public diplomacy, and foreign affairs, and at the U.S. Naval War College where he teaches strategic communication.  He was director of George Washington University’s Public Diplomacy Institute from 2005-2008.  

Gregory was on the National Defense University’s faculty from 1998-2001 where he taught courses on public diplomacy, media, and national security strategy at the National War College.  From 1985-1998, he was executive director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.  Prior to retiring from government service in 2002, he was a coordinator on the Department of State’s Response to Terrorism Working Group on Public Diplomacy. 

He was a participant in the 2009 White Oak Conference on Reinventing Public Diplomacy, a co-drafter of three Defense Science Board reports on strategic communication (2001, 2004, 2008), and a co-drafter of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force Report on Public Diplomacy (2003).  He is a member of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and the Public Diplomacy Council.  He was the Council's executive director from 2001-2004.  

Gregory is a frequent guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute, think tanks, and U.S. civilian and military universities.  Overseas, he has been a speaker at conferences organized by NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division, the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wilton Park, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael). 

His publications include “Public Diplomacy and Governance: Challenges for Scholars and Practitioners,” in Andrew F. Cooper, Brian Hocking, and William Maley, eds., Worlds Apart:  Exploring the Interface Between Governance and Diplomacy, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); “Public Diplomacy and National Security:  Lessons from the U.S. Experience,” Small Wars Journal, August 14, 2008; “Public Diplomacy:  Sunrise of an Academic Field,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 616, March 2008, 274-290; and “Public Diplomacy as Strategic Communication,” in James J.F. Forest, ed., Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21^st Century: Strategic and Tactical Considerations, (Praeger, 2007).  He compiles Public Diplomacy:  Books, Articles, and Websites, an annotated list of resources on public diplomacy and related subjects, circulated bimonthly.  The University of Southern California’s Public Diplomacy Center maintains an archive from 2002.

Jack Hamilton is Dean and Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University.  He came to Louisiana State University after more than 20 years as a journalist and public servant. 

Hamilton has reported in the United States and abroad for the Milwaukee Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and ABC Radio, among others, and was a longtime commentator on MarketPlace, broadcast nationally by Public Radio International.  He is author or co-author of five books and currently is working on a history of American foreign newsgathering.  Hamilton is editor of a book series, “From Our Correspondent,” which brings to life forgotten memoirs by foreign correspondents. 

In the course of his career, Hamilton directed a Society of Professional Journalists' project to improve news coverage of the Third World, served at USAID during the Carter Administration, oversaw nuclear non-proliferation issues for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and managed a World Bank education program. 

Hamilton serves on the board of the International Center for Journalists, where he is treasurer.  He was a Pulitzer Prize jurist in 1999 and 2000, held a fellowship in 2002 at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and is member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He was named the Freedom Forum Journalism Administrator of the Year for 2003. 

Hamilton earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Marquette and Boston Universities respectively, and a doctorate in American Civilization from George Washington University.

Kempton Jenkins 

Kempton Jenkins is a Counselor at Jefferson Waterman International, advising JWI clients on matters related to Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine. Mr. Jenkins’ unusual blend of business, diplomatic, public relations, and Congressional relations experience makes it possible for him to put clients quickly and efficiently in contact with individuals key to their political or commercial objectives. 

For the greater part of his career, Mr. Jenkins has been a major figure in Ukrainian, Eastern European, and Russian trade and political affairs. Mr. Jenkins is the former President of the Ukraine-U.S. Business Council, the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council, and Vice Chairman of the U.S.-Yugoslav Business Council. He first became involved in these critical regions in the service of the U.S. State Department. As Deputy Assistant Secretary for East-West Trade, he coordinated U.S.-Soviet trade policy and the delegation that resulted in the first U.S. China trade agreement. As Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, he worked with the U.S. Congress on important trade bills and on ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jenkins served as Assistant Director of the U.S. Information Agency for Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; Political Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Caracas; and political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, where he assisted Ambassador Lewellyn Thompson in Berlin negotiations with the Soviets. 

From 1980-1990, Mr. Jenkins took his extensive government experience to the private sector, where he became the Corporate Vice President for international government affairs of the integrated steel manufacturing company Armco. From 1990-2002, he was senior consultant to APCO Worldwide. Mr. Jenkins also served as an adjunct professor on East-West Trade at Georgetown University. 

He received his undergraduate degree in history from Bowling Green University, a Master’s in International Law from George Washington University, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University, and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Public Affairs by Bowling Green University. Mr. Jenkins speaks German, Russian, and Spanish. 

Linda L. Jewell

Linda Jewell served as Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Ecuador from 2005 to 2008.  Prior to that assignment she was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs and Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Coordination for the Bureau. From 1999-2002, she served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Ambassador Jewell joined the Foreign Service in 1976 after a stint in publishing at Prentice-Hall, Inc.  She began her overseas career as Educational Exchanges Officer in Jakarta, Indonesia.  She has also served as Economics Program Officer in Mexico City and as Press Attache in New Delhi and Warsaw.  Her Washington positions have included assignments to the Mexico/Central America desk and a year at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she received a Masters Degree in International Public Policy.  She was Deputy Director of the Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs of United States Information Agency for one year before assuming her post as Director of the office from August 1997 to June 1999.
Ms. Jewell is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, and a graduate of Yale University.  She is married to John Walsh, a retired Foreign Service officer and teacher. They have two children.

Cynthia Farrell Johnson  

A veteran of over 25 years as a public diplomacy officer, Cynthia Farrell Johnson currently serves as an adjunct communications professor at the Washington Internship Institute.  In November of 2005, Ms. Johnson left the U.S. Foreign Service to pursue a career in education and the arts.* 

In her final diplomatic assignment, Ms. Johnson was a member of the Public Diplomacy faculty, in the School of Professional and Area Studies at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute (August 2004 to September of 2005).  Prior to that, she served as a Career Development Officer in the Office of Senior Level Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources (2002-2004), and as Deputy Director of the Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (2000 - 2002).  Her other Washington assignments included a stint as senior advisor in the U.S. Information Agency Director’s Office of Strategic Communication. 

Overseas, Ms. Johnson was the Public Affairs Officer in San Salvador, El Salvador, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Cotonou, Benin.  She also served as Information Officer in Panama City, Panama, and Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). 

Before joining the Foreign Service, Ms. Johnson worked for the Brooklyn Public Library and Barnard College Library.  She has degrees in Art History from the State University of New York College at New Paltz (1972) and in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York (1978).  She is fluent in Spanish and French, with a working knowledge of German. 

Born in New York City, Ms. Johnson now resides in Silver Spring, Maryland.  She is married to Stephen C. Johnson of Cheyenne, Wyoming.  They have two sons. 

*To view her artwork or find out about upcoming exhibitions visit www.cfjfinearts.com 

James Kelman 

Jim Kelman was an officer in the Department of State and U.S. Information Agency for 30 years.  His last position was Senior Public Diplomacy Advisor in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.  He previously served as Senior Advisor to the Director of USIA, designing international public diplomacy strategies. While there, he designed and implemented a public diplomacy strategy to explain the humanitarian element of the Kosovo intervention to European countries, and helped to develop a media strategy to circumvent Serbian propaganda radio and develop a Kosovar radio network.  Jim spent a number of years managing and designing public diplomacy speaker programs in the area of defense and security in the European and Asia-Pacific regions, and has administered Fulbright Academic programs for the Middle East.  In 2003, he served as the Liaison Officer from the U.S. Embassy in Manama, Bahrain to the U.S. Navy Coalition Press Information Center (CPIC) for the duration of active combat in the Iraq war, assisting international press to cover the war (under the DOD embed program), and explaining its goals.  He has served as Public Affairs Officer in the Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration at the State Department, assigned to the 1994 Cairo Population Conference as Spokesman for the U.S. Delegation, and from 1991-93 he was Congressional Affairs Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.  Earlier assignments include a period as Director of the J-1 Exchange Visitor (visa) Program, where he helped to formulate the program where exchange visitors from China came to the U.S. as students and scholars, time as a Fulbright Grant administrator, and an assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok as a Refugee Affairs Officer, spent mostly on the Thai-Cambodian border with the U.S. Cambodian refugee program.  He entered USIA as a Foreign Service Reserve Officer in the Management Intern program.  He has held temporary assignments in the U.S. embassies in Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Paris, Cairo, Bonn, and Manama (Bahrain). He has also served numerous times at the U.S. Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna. 

Jim Kelman has lectured extensively on issues involving public diplomacy, U.S. relations with the Asia-Pacific region, U.S. policies on nonproliferation, and other public issues at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, Georgetown and George Washington Universities, the Universities of Connecticut and Georgia, and Syracuse and George Mason Universities.  He has also lectured before the Singapore Ministry of Information and the Arts (MITA), as well as the Thai and Singaporean Foreign Ministries.  He served as Acting Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore during the spring and summer of 2005. 

Jim Kelman received a B.A. degree from Clark University (Massachusetts) in Government/International Relations, spent a term at the London School of Economics (UK) researching the topic of European Integration, and received an MPA degree from the University of Connecticut.

Ambassador Gary Matthews 

Gary Matthews is counselor for diplomacy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency.  He has held senior positions in government, international organizations, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations. 

Matthews’s foreign assignments, spanning four decades, were in Malta, Germany, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, and the Balkans. He held a number of senior peacekeeping positions in the Balkans. He was assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, serving as the principal deputy head of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). He also served in two positions in Bosnia and Herzegovina: supervisor of Brcko and deputy high representative, and director of the Regional Center in Mostar of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). 

In his thirty-years with the U.S. government, Matthews served in the Foreign Service and the U.S. Army, including as American ambassador to Malta, special coordinator for the Soviet Union and East Europe, principal deputy assistant Secretary of State for human rights and humanitarian affairs and executive assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State.  From 2004 until 2007, Matthews was at the U.S. Institute for Peace where he served as director of the Task Force on the United Nations, as working group secretariat director for economic and reconstruction issues with the Iraq Study Group, and also handled various special projects including stints as acting director of public affairs and communications. 

He has received the Superior Honor and Wilbur Carr awards from the Department of State and the Cross of Gallantry from the Republic of South Vietnam. Matthews has also worked in the private sector as editorial manager of the Kiplinger Letters and a member of the Board of the Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. He was also director of International Programs for the National Academy of Public Administration.

Matthews holds a B.A. in history from Drury College, a master’s degree in political science from Oklahoma State University, and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University.