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Senior Fellow David Speedie is Director of the Council's new program on U.S. Global Engagement.
In the current political debate, much is made of "renewal of engagement" with the world in conducting foreign policy, or of restoring U.S. "moral leadership". But what might constructive engagement entail? To address this key policy question, the U.S. Global Engagement program will look at the issues through the lens of a series of critical bilateral and multilateral relationships, with allies and non-allies alike.
In 2007–2008, Mr. Speedie was also a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He worked at Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1992 to 2007. He joined the Corporation as a program officer in the cooperative security program and was appointed Program Chair in March 1993, a position he held for almost 12 years. In 2004, he was appointed to serve as special advisor to the president and director of the Corporation's project on Islam.
In the early 1990s, Speedie was appointed president of the Jacksonville Art Museum in Florida. He was recruited from the W. Alton Jones Foundation where he was codirector of the secure society program and directed, over a five year period, programs in the arts, urban affairs and the environment. In the 1980s, Speedie was a consultant to nonprofits in management, marketing and fund-raising as well as director of cultural affairs for Mayor Bill Green in Philadelphia. He also served as the bicentennial liaison officer at the British Embassy in Washington.
For three years, Speedie was a professor of English and drama at the University of St. Andrews in his native Scotland. Speedie holds an M.A. in education and an M.Litt. from the University of St. Andrews. He was a visiting research fellow as a Kennedy scholar at Harvard University from 1971-1973. He has been a book editor and writer for the National Endowment for the Arts' Community Vision, a freelance journalist on politics for The Scotsman, and most recently, a reviewer for the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
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