Jamie Metzl

For the Brown Alumni Magazine, Metzl wrote a 2010 article describing the "narcissistic pleasure" he derived from having a Wikipedia page and how he asked an assistant to "occasionally add a link to the site".

In 2003, Metzl directed a Council on Foreign Relations study led by Warren B. Rudman that concluded that the United States was not doing enough to prepare first responders to handle a catastrophic attack. He appeared on Meet the Press, discussing the topic.

He was born to Marilyn Metzl, a clinical psychologist, and Kurt Metzl, a pediatrician. He attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. He holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University (1994), and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Metzl served as deputy staff director and senior counselor of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, senior coordinator for international public information and senior advisor to the undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs at the Department of State, and director of multilateral and humanitarian affairs on the National Security Council. In the Clinton administration, he was the primary drafter of Presidential Decision Directive 68 on International Public Information and coordinated public information campaigns for Iraq and Kosovo. From 1991 to 1993, Metzl was a human rights officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), where he helped establish a human rights investigation and monitoring unit for Cambodia.

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.