Jamie Metzl

Jamie Frederic Metzl (born July 1, 1968) is an American geopolitical commentator, author, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a former partner at the global investment company Cranemere LLC. He is the author of five books, including the science fiction novels, Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata, and the non-fiction work, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity. In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully against former Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver for the Democratic nomination for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District.Formerly, he was the executive vice president of the Asia Society. He developed and led the Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative, a Pan-Asia-Pacific leadership development program. Metzl served the Clinton administration as director for multilateral and humanitarian affairs for the National Security Council, working for the Clinton administration in the United States Department of State as senior advisor to the undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs and information technology and senior coordinator for international public information, and was also deputy staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then Senator Joe Biden.