Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, or simply the Wilson Center, is an American quasi-government entity and think tank based in Washington, D.C.¹⁾ It is a public-private partnership that conducts research to inform public policy.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was established by an act of Congress in 1968. It is based in Washington D.C. and hosts scholars engaged “in the study of national and world affairs.”

On its website it states that it “maintains a lively, neutral forum for free and informed dialogue.”

“It brings pre-eminent thinkers to Washington for extended periods of time to interact with policymakers through a large number of programs and projects. The Center seeks to separate the important from the inconsequential and to take a historical and broad perspective on the issues,”.

The President and Director of WWICS is Lee Herbert Hamilton (born April 20, 1931). Hamilton was the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, and currently serves on the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives for 34 years and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

The Woodrow Wilson Center established the Canada Institute on North American Issues (CINAI), a registered Canadian charity established to address critical public policy issues within the context of North America. Through a series of lectures, seminars and other dialogue opportunities, CINAI programs highlight current and emerging issues within the Canada-US-Mexico relationship.²⁾

Chairman - Joseph B. Gildenhorn, Founding Partner, The JBG Companies

Vice Chairman - David A. Metzner, Managing Partner & Founder, American Continental Group

Federal Government Appointee - Tami Longaberger, Chair & CEO, The Longaberger Company

Dr. Robin Cook, author

Donald E. Garcia, President, Pinnacle Financial Group

Bruce S. Gelb, Senior Consultant, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Sander R. Gerber, Chairman and CEO, Hudson Bay Capital Management LP and Chairman, XTF Group

Charles L. Glazer, CEO C.L. Glazer & Company, Inc.

Susan Hutchinson, Executive Director, Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts & Sciences

Ignacio E. Sanchez, Partner, Piper Rudnick, LLP

Public Members

James H. Billington, The Librarian of Congress

Michael O. Leavitt, The Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Condoleezza Rice, The Secretary, U.S. Department of State

Cristian Samper, Acting Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

Margaret Spellings, The Secretary, U.S. Department of Education

Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States

Source - Updated 8-01-2007³⁾

• Peter Singer⁴⁾

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