Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she served as President for 18 years. She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997 as director of the Council’s Washington program. In 1993, she also served as Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs at the State Department. Prior to that, Mathews was Founding Vice President and Director of Research of the World Resources Institute. She also served as director of the Office of Global Issues of the National Security Council, where she worked on issues including nuclear proliferation, conventional arms sales policy, chemical and biological warfare, and human rights. She earned her BS from Radcliffe College and holds a PhD from the California Institute of Technology.