Speaker Biographies
February 5, 2004
Roger Bate is a visiting fellow at AEI. Before coming to AEI, Mr. Bate was director of the International Policy Network from 2001 to 2003, director of the Environmental Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs from 1993 to 2003, and director of the European Science and Environment Forum from 1995 to 2001. Mr. Bate researches water policy in developing countries, health policy and endemic diseases in developing countries (AIDS and malaria), international environmental and health agreements (industrial chemicals, climate change, and water), the role of aid agencies and NGOs in developing countries, and genetically modified organisms and pesticide policy in developing countries. He has written numerous articles and opinion pieces, as well as several books, including Saving Our Streams: The Role of the Anglers Conservation Association in Preventing Pollution in English and Welsh Rivers (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001); Malaria and the DDT Story (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001); and Life's Adventure: Virtual Risk in a Real World (Butterworth Heinemann, 2000).
Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI. For many years he served as a member of Harvard University's Center for Population and Development Studies, and he is currently a member of the Visiting Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and the Advisory Committee for Voluntary Foreign Aid for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He has served as a consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. State Department, USAID, World Bank, and other institutions on such topics as demography, international development, and East Asian security. Mr. Eberstadt has published over three hundred studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books, Commentary, the New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His books include Poverty in China, Foreign Aid and American Purpose, Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems, and most recently, Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis.
James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at AEI. He writes a weekly syndicated financial column for the Washington Post and is a weekly columnist on economic and political issues for the Scripps Howard News Service. He hosts the website TechCentralStation.com, which offers a free-market perspective on public policy issues involving science and technology. His newest book, The Secret Code of the Superior Investor, was named the best investment book of 2002 by Business Week. He is also the coauthor, with Kevin A. Hassett of AEI, of Dow 36,000, the 1999 bestselling book on stock valuation. He was editor and part-owner of Roll Call, the congressional newspaper, from 1988 to 1993 and was previously the publisher of the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic. Mr. Glassman was recently appointed to the President's Council on the Twenty-first Century Workforce.
David Gordon is the director of the Office of Transnational Issues at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He joined the CIA in May 1998, when he was appointed national intelligence officer for economics and global issues on the National Intelligence Council (NIC). While on the NIC, he directed major analytical projects on country-level economic and financial crises, trends, and the changing geo-politics of energy, as well as providing leadership for the NIC's seminal "Global Trends 2015" report. Previously, Mr. Gordon was senior fellow and director of the U.S. Policy Program at the Overseas Development Council. Earlier, he was a senior staff member on the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and was the regional economic policy adviser for the U.S. Agency for International Development, based in Nairobi, Kenya. In the 1980s, he pursued an academic career with a joint appointment at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. He has taught at the College of William and Mary, Princeton University, and the University of Nairobi, and he is currently an adjunct professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Marwyn Samuels is the cofounder and chairman of the U.S.-China AIDS Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to the prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases in China through programs in public awareness, education, and training. The foundation works in China toward the development of mass media-based HIV and STD prevention campaigns at the local and regional level and in specialized training programs for medical personnel, journalists, and local administrators. Mr. Samuels is the author of Contest for the South China Sea (1982) and numerous other studies on the political economy and regional development of China. His academic career spans the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of British Columbia, and Syracuse University, where he is emeritus professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He has been involved in developing U.S.-China educational exchanges, including the first such programs with the People's Bank of China and the China National School of Administration. He has also been a principal in several private investment firms specialized in mass media, communications, and public transit systems in China and Southeast Asia.
Jeffrey L. Sturchio is vice president for external affairs and human health in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Merck and Co., Inc. He has been centrally involved in Merck's participation in the Acelerating Access Initiative, an industry-UNAIDS partnership to help improve HIV/AIDS care and treatment in the developing world, and he is a member of the private sector delegation on the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Before joining Merck in 1989 as the company's first corporate archivist, Mr. Sturchio held positions at the AT&T Archives, the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has also been a postdoctoral fellow and senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History. His publications include Chemistry in America, 1876-1976: Historical Indicators, coauthored with A. Thackray, P. T. Carroll, and R. F. Bud (Reidel, 1985), and Values and Visions: A Merck Century (Merck and Co., Inc., 1991), as well as contributions to edited volumes and articles in scholarly and industry journals.
Tommy Thompson was sworn in as the nineteenth U.S. secretary of health and human services in February 2001. During his fourteen years as the governor of Wisconsin, he focused on revitalizing Wisconsin's economy and gained national attention for his innovative leadership on welfare reform, expanded access to health care for low-income people, and education. Secretary Thompson began his career in public service in 1966 as a representative in Wisconsin's state assembly. He was elected assistant assembly minority leader in 1973 and assembly minority leader in 1981. He has received numerous awards for his public service, including the Anti-Defamation League's Distinguished Public Service Award. In 1987, he received Governing magazine's Public Official of the Year Award, and he received the Horatio Alger Award in 1998. He has served as chairman of the National Governors' Association, the Education Commission of the States, and the Midwestern Governors' Conference.
Randall L. Tobias was sworn in as the first U.S. global AIDS coordinator in October 2003. He is responsible for overseeing all U.S. international HIV/AIDS assistance and coordinating the efforts of the various agencies and departments of the U.S. government responsible for its dissemination. Ambassador Tobias began his career with Indiana Bell Telephone Company, an AT&T subsidiary, and rose through the AT&T system, becoming vice chairman of AT&T from 1986 until 1993 and chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T International from 1991 until 1993. He left AT&T in 1991 to become chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Eli Lilly and Company. In January 1999, upon his retirement from Eli Lilly, he was named chairman emeritus. He has received numerous awards for his corporate leadership and was named Norman Vincent Peale Humanitarian of the Year in 1997. His book, Put the Moose on the Table, coauthored with his son, Todd Tobias, was published in early 2003.
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