Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie's president for 18 years. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy. She was director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Washington program and senior fellow from 1994-1997. While there she published her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, "Power Shift," chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journals 75 years. Dr. Mathews was founding vice president and director of research of the World Resources Institute from 1982-1993. This event costs $25.