The White House Fellows program is a non-partisan central fellowship established via executive order by President Lyndon B. Johnson in October 1964. The fellowship is one of USA's most prestigious programs for leadership and public service,offering exceptional US Citizens first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the central government. The fellowship was founded based upon a suggestion from John W. Gardner,then the president of Carnegie Corporation and later the sixth secretary of health,education,and welfare.
Karen Parfitt Hughes is the global vice chair of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. She served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State and as a counselor to President George W. Bush.
Margaret DeBardeleben Tutwiler is an American politician who has served multiple different positions within the United States Department of State.
Goli Ameri is an Iranian-American businesswoman and former U.S. diplomat. She is the co-founder of StartItUp,a mobile technology platform that provides resources to aspiring entrepreneurs. She formerly served as Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Ameri ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 2004,and is a former U.S. Representative to the United Nations. She serves on the board of trustees of Freedom House,as well as on the Center for Middle East Public Policy advisory board of the RAND Corporation,a group of public and private sector leaders that provide guidance and support for RAND's Middle East research.
James Kenneth Glassman served as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from 2008–2009. From 2009 to 2013,he was the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute,a public policy development institution focused on creating independent,nonpartisan solutions to America's most pressing public policy problems through the principles that guided President George W. Bush and his wife Laura in public life. The George W. Bush Institute is based within the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Robert Michael Kimmitt was United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. He was nominated by President Bush on June 29,2005. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on July 29,2005,and he was sworn into office on August 16,2005. Kimmitt served through the end of the Bush administration,leaving office on January 20,2009.
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is a graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970. The school offers training in public policy analysis and administration in government and public affairs-related areas of the private and nonprofit sectors. Degree programs include a Master of Public Affairs (MPAff),a mid-career MPAff sequence,16 MPAff dual degree programs,a Master of Global Policy Studies (MGPS),eight MGPS dual degree programs,an Executive Master of Public Leadership,and a Ph.D. in public policy.
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the United States Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries around the world. It is responsible for the United States' cultural exchange programs.
Henrietta Holsman Fore is an American public health and international development executive who was the executive director of UNICEF till January 2022. Fore is chairman and CEO of Holsman International,a management,investment,and advisory services company. She served in three presidential appointments under President George W. Bush:Fore was the first woman Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance,the 11th Under Secretary of Management in the Department of State,and the 37th Director of the United States Mint in the U.S. Department of Treasury. She was the presidential appointee for President George H. W. Bush at the United States Agency for International Development.
Sada Cumber is a Pakistani–American entrepreneur,philanthropist,and diplomat. He is an expert on US foreign policy and national security issues. In 2008,President George W. Bush named him the first U.S. special Envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference,which promotes Muslim solidarity in social and political affairs. In that capacity,Cumber advanced United States interests among the OIC's 57 members nations,including promoting mutual understanding and dialogue while combating intolerance,extremism and the conditions which create it.
The Shared Values Initiative was a public relations campaign created by the U.S. State Department and directed by Charlotte Beers,a former Madison Avenue advertising executive,to persuade viewers to be more aware,open and accepting of America by dispelling myths about the treatment of Muslims. The propaganda campaign was launched soon after September 11,2001 and was intended to sell a “new”America to Muslims around the world by showing that American Muslims were living happily and freely in America without persecution. Although initially thought to be a success by the U.S. Government and Charlotte Beers’team,the $15 million initiative was regarded as a failure.
Farah Pandith is an American academic of Indian descent. She was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The position was made specifically for her after she briefed Secretary Clinton about her work in the Bush administration. She had the rare distinction of being a political appointee for two Republican presidents and President Obama. When she was the Special Representative she traveled to almost 100 countries. After serving under both Secretaries Clinton and John Kerry,she left government. She said she came to Washington after 9/11 again and wanted to serve –she left after more than a decade in public service. She worked at USAID and then went to the National Security Council and then the U.S. Department of State. When she left in 2014,she returned to her home state of Massachusetts.
The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) is a nonprofit organization formed by a coalition of American businesses and NGOs,senior national security and foreign policy experts,faith-based and community leaders from across the United States who promote increased support for the United States’diplomatic and development efforts among both politicians and the public.
Roman Popadiuk is an American diplomat of Ukrainian descent. Popadiuk served as the first United States Ambassador to Ukraine under George H. W. Bush,from 1992 to 1993. From 2015 until 2017,he was a principal at Morgan,Lewis &Bockius LLP's subsidiary Morgan Lewis Consulting,and prior to 2015 he was the principal at Bingham Consulting. Since late 2018 Popadiuk has been the president of the Diplomacy Center Foundation which oversees the development of the National Museum of American Diplomacy.
The Bush School of Government &Public Service is an academic college of Texas A&M University founded in 1997 under former President George H. W. Bush's philosophy that "public service is a noble calling." Since then,the Bush School has continued to reflect that notion in curriculum,research,and student experience and has become a leading international affairs,political science,and public affairs institution.
National Security Decision Directive 77,was a U.S. National Security Directive signed on January 14,1983,by President Ronald Reagan. The directive established a Special Planning Group (SPG) under the National Security Council (NSC) whose purpose was to strengthen,organize,plan,and coordinate public diplomacy of the United States relative to national security. This NSDD positioned the White House and the National Security Staff at the helm of public diplomacy coordination across government agencies. NSDD-77 lay the groundwork for the Reagan administration's aggressive public diplomacy strategy and included guidance for inter-agency working groups to execute wide-ranging tactics for information dissemination both domestically and internationally.
Jay T. Snyder is an American philanthropist,businessman,diplomat and Democratic Party activist.
Cyber-diplomacy is the evolution of public diplomacy to include and use the new platforms of communication in the 21st century. As explained by Jan Melissen in The New Public Diplomacy:Soft Power in International Relations,cyber-diplomacy “links the impact of innovations in communication and information technology to diplomacy.”Cyber-diplomacy is also known as or is part of public diplomacy 2.0,Digital diplomacy,EDiplomacy,and virtual diplomacy. Cyber-diplomacy has as its underpinnings that,“it recognizes that new communication technologies offer new opportunities to interact with a wider public by adopting a network approach and making the most of an increasingly multicentric global,interdependent system.”
Michelle Selesky Giuda is an American businessperson and former government official.
SreyRam Kuy is a Cambodian American surgeon,writer,researcher,and healthcare executive.
