
He developed and led the Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative, a Pan-Asia-Pacific leadership development program.

Formerly, he was the executive vice president of the Asia Society. Metzl is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a former partner at the global investment company Cranemere LLC. He appeared on Meet the Press, discussing the topic. Rudman that concluded that the United States was not doing enough to prepare first responders to handle a catastrophic attack. In 2003, Metzl directed a Council on Foreign Relations study led by Warren B. 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. 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. 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 Southeast Asian history from Oxford University (1994), and a J.D. He is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. He attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born to Marilyn Metzl, a clinical psychologist, and Kurt Metzl, a pediatrician. Metzl served the Clinton administration as director for multilateral and humanitarian affairs for the National Security Council, working for the Clinton administration in the United States Department of State as senior advisor to the undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs and information technology and senior coordinator for international public information, and was also deputy staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then Senator Joe Biden. He has served as executive vice president of the Asia Society. In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully against former Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver for the Democratic nomination for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District. 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.


Jamie Frederic Metzl (born July 1, 1968) is an American geopolitical commentator, author, and government and nonprofit executive and advisor.
