Carnegie president to speak

Jessica Tuchman Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will speak at UW–Madison Monday, Nov. 2, on “Power Shift: A New World Order?”

Her lecture, free and open to the public, will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.

Before being named president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace last year, Mathews served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her specialties in foreign policy are global issues such as the environment and energy.

She holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology and came to Washington in 1973 as a Congressional Science Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She worked in Congress as a staff member of the Energy and Environment subcommittee and from 1977 to 1979 directed the Office of Global Issues for the National Security Council.

From 1980 to 1982 Mathews was a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post, where she covered such issues as science, technology, the environment and arms control. She also has served as vice president and research director for the World Resources Institute.

Mathews’ appearance at UW–Madison is part of the Distinguished International Visitor Program, sponsored by the International Institute. The program brings leaders in international affairs and public policy to campus to meet with faculty, staff, students and the public.