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| Born | July 1, 1968 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
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| Website | https://jamiemetzl.com/profiles/ |
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.
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]
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.[14][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][dead link][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]
He is a marathon runner and triathlete.[27][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".[30]
