Jessica Tuchman Mathews was President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1997 to 2015.
Background
Jessica Tuchman Matthews was born on July 4, 1946, to Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, and Lester Tuchman (c 1904–1997), medical researcher and professor of clinical medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Education
AB magna cum laude, Radcliffe College, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1973.
Career
She has also held jobs in the executive and legislative branches of government, management and research in nonprofits, and journalism. Her maternal grandfather was banker Maurice Wertheim. She continued her education in biochemistry and biophysics at California Institute of Technology (1968–1973), receiving her doctorate in 1973.
From 1977 to 1979, she was 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 Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs. She served on the editorial board of the Washington Post from 1980 to 1982, covering energy, environment, science, technology, arms control, health, and other issues.
Later, she became a weekly columnist for the Washington Post, writing a column that appeared nationwide and in the International Herald Tribune. From 1982 to 1993, she was founding Vice President and Director of Research of the World Resources Institute, a center for policy research on environmental and natural-resource management issues.
From 1993 to 1997, she was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and served as Director of the Council"s Washington program
While there, she published "Power Shift" (1997), an article in Foreign Affairs that was chosen by its editors as one of the most influential in the journal"s 75 years. From 1997 to 2015, she was President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1997 to 2015. Mathews is married to former Air Force General Charles G.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee Rockefeller Foundation, Century Foundation, Nuclear Threat Initiative. Member Council Foreign Relations. Board directors Joyce Foundation, Chicago, 1984—1991, Inter-American Dialogue, 1991—2000, Surface Transportation Policy Project, 1991—2003, Radcliffe College, 1992—1996, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, since 1992, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York City, 1992—1996, Brookings Institution, Washington, 1995—2001.
Member of Institute International Economics (advisory committee), Federation American Scientists (board directors 1985-1987, 1988-1992), Trilateral Commission.
Connections
Married Colin D. Mathews, February 25, 1978 (divorced). Children: Oliver Max Tuchman, Jordan Henry Morgenthau. Stepchildren: Zachary Chase, Hilary Dustin.