James K Glassman

Ambassador James K. Glassman is the Founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute. Glassman served as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from June 2008 to January 2009. Prior to his State Department post, from June 2007 to June 2008, he was chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), directing all non–military, taxpayer–funded U.S. international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Alhurra TV. He continued to serve as a governor of the BBG, representing the Secretary of State, during post as Under Secretary. From 1996 to 2008, Glassman was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Glassman has had a long career as a journalist and publisher. He served as president of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, publisher of the New Republic magazine, executive vice president of U.S. News & World Report, and editor and co–owner of Roll Call, the Congressional newspaper. Between 1993 and 2004, he was a columnist for the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. Shortly after graduating from college, he started Figaro, a weekly newspaper in New Orleans. April 2012, he was appointed to the Investor Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He was formerly a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Intel Corporation and was Senior Advisor to AT&T Corporation and SAP America, Inc.