Jamie Metzl

{{Copyedit|date=March 2024}}{{short description|American geopolitical commentator and author (born 1968)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|07|01}}

| birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.

| education = {{unbulleted list|Brown University (BA)|University of Oxford (PhD)|Harvard Law School (JD)}}

| website = https://jamiemetzl.com/profiles/

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Jamie Frederic Metzl (born July 1, 1968)Cleary, Tom. [https://heavy.com/news/joe-rogan/jamie-metzl/ "Jamie Metzl: 25 Questions Answered"], Heavy.com. Accessed June 25, 2023. "Jamie Metzl was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 1, 1968." is an American geopolitical commentator, author, and former Clinton administration official. He is the author of five books, including science fiction novels and non-fiction.

Early life and education

Metzl was born to Marilyn Metzl, a clinical psychologist, and Kurt Metzl, a pediatrician.[https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/hurricane-sandy-sweeps-away-n-y-marathon-makes-way-for-tikkun-olam-1.475337 Haaratz: "Hurricane Sandy Sweeps Away N.Y. Marathon, Makes Way for Tikkun Olam" by Danna Harman] November 5, 2012[https://www.beyondthebris.com/delving-into-genesis-code-an-interview-with-jamie-metzl/ Beyond the Bris: "Delving into Genesis Code: An Interview With Jamie Metzl"] retrieved November 4, 2017 He attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri.Staff. [https://www.barstowschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&tn=World-renowned+Expert+on+Asia+to+Give+Free+Lecture+at+The+Barstow+School+&nid=593756&ptid=52302&sdb=0&mode=0&vcm=0 "World-renowned Expert on Asia to Give Free Lecture at The Barstow School"], The Barstow School, October 3, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011. He graduated from Brown University.Staff. [http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20070102/AE/101020053 "Learn how Asia is changing the world"], Vail Daily, January 2, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University (1994),[https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.386538 British Library ETHOS PhD database] and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.Campbell, Matt; and Kraske, Steve. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KC&p_theme=kc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1037B1779C20F80B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Metzl's ambition praised, criticized"], Kansas City Star, June 26, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011. He was a White House Fellow.Matthews, Mark via The Baltimore Sun. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L4RIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OG8DAAAAIBAJ&dq=metzl%20white-house-fellow&pg=5778%2C4788804 Darkyears for Cambodia and for U.S. too"], Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 18, 1998. Accessed November 1, 2011.

Career

From 1991 to 1993, Metzl was a human rights officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC),Anthuvan, Augustine. [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/middleeast/view/1120180/1/.html "Former US National Security Council adviser's views on Libya situation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405200811/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/middleeast/view/1120180/1/.html |date=April 5, 2011 }}, Channel NewsAsia, April 1, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011. where he helped establish a human rights investigation and monitoring unit for Cambodia.[http://www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=91 Jamie Metzl: Visiting Scholar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020204944/http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=91|date=2011-10-20}}, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Accessed November 1, 2011.{{Third-party-inline|date=September 2023}}

Metzl served as deputy staff director and senior counselor of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,Staff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=101B133B1F3F9661&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Holdovers Held Up Security Strategy: Democratic partisans and Clinton holdovers such as Richard Clarke undermined the Bush team's crafting of a new national-security plan."], The Washington Times, April 26, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011. 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.Staff. [http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/_previous/Documents/0207.pdf Records on Presidential Decision Directive-68 (PDD-68)– Concerning International Public Information (IPI)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021111502/http://clintonlibrary.gov/_previous/Documents/0207.pdf |date=2011-10-21 }}, Clinton Presidential Center, last modified April 27, 2007. Accessed November 3, 2011. In the Clinton administration, he was the primary drafter of Presidential Decision Directive 68 on International Public InformationStaff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0F3B69552F7E5&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Information-control plan aimed at U.S., insider says: International agency to be used for `spinning the news'"], The Washington Times, July 29, 1999. Accessed November 1, 2011. and coordinated public information campaigns for Iraq and Kosovo.Douglas, William. [https://archive.today/20130131163623/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/322964961.html?dids=322964961:322964961&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+10,+2003&author=William+Douglas.+WASHINGTON+BUREAU&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=A+Sense+of+Relief,+Vindication+/++U.S.+officials+hail+TV+images&pqatl=google "A Sense of Relief, Vindication / U.S. officials hail TV images"], Newsday, April 10, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011.{{Dead link|date=September 2023}}{{Verify source|date=September 2023}}

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.Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/us/us-spending-against-terror-is-too-low-report-warns.html "U.S. Spending Against Terror Is Too Low, Report Warns"], The New York Times, June 29, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011.

In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully against former Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver for the Democratic nomination for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District.Curry, Dan. [http://examiner.net/stories/080404/gov_080404015.shtml "Cleaver outlasts Metzl in 5th District race"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041226071928/http://examiner.net/stories/080404/gov_080404015.shtml|date=2004-12-26}}, The Examiner (Independence), August 4, 2004. Accessed January 5, 2008. "Cleaver defeated Metzl 72,530 (59.9 percent) to 48,531 (40.1 percent)."

Metzl is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council,{{Cite web |title=Jamie Metzl |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/jamie-metzl/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Atlantic Council |language=en-US}} and a former partner at the global investment company Cranemere LLC.Vail Symposium: Is the Red Dragon Breathing Fire? Rising China and the Changing Global Order with Jamie Metzl [http://vp.telvue.com/preview?id=T01004&video=159444][https://web.archive.org/web/20101225220155/http://www.hias.org/en/pages/jamie-metzl Jamie F. Metzl -Director], The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 13, 2013. Accessed May 17, 2016.{{Third-party inline|date=September 2023}} He was an executive vice president of the Asia Society.[http://asiasociety.org/jamie-metzl Jamie Metzl] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118180957/http://asiasociety.org/jamie-metzl |date=2011-11-18 }}, Asia Society. Accessed November 1, 2011.{{When|date=June 2023}}

He authored a book on human rights in Southeast Asia and the novel The Depths of the Sea.Dion, Marc Munroe. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KC&p_theme=kc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=102EFAF895477F09&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Asian expert knows his story: Characters a bit flat in well-plotted political thriller"], Kansas City Star, May 30, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Stearns, Matt. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KC&p_theme=kc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FC7F3F421B120A3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Politicians mull opposing McCarthy in '04 primary"], Kansas City Star, July 24, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011.

In 2019, Metzl was appointed to the WHO advisory committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing.{{Cite report

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Metzl has been a vocal proponent of the COVID-19 lab leak theory.Stolberg, Sheryl Gay; and Mueller, Benjamin. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/us/politics/covid-origins-lab-leak-politics.html "Lab Leak or Not? How Politics Shaped the Battle Over Covid’s Origin"], The New York Times, March 19, 2023. Accessed June 25, 2023. In March 2023, he testified at the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic invited by US House Republicans.{{Cite journal |last1=Lenharo |first1=Mariana |last2=Wolf |first2=Lauren |date=2023-03-09 |title=US COVID-origins hearing renews debate over lab-leak hypothesis |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00701-1 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=615 |issue=7952 |pages=380–381 |doi=10.1038/d41586-023-00701-1|pmid=36890328 |s2cid=257426722 }}

He is the author of the 2024 book Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World.{{Cite web |last=Werner |first=John |title=In Superconvergence, Jamie Metzl Unravels AI Mysteries |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2024/07/16/in-superconvergence-jamie-metzl-unravels-ai-mysteries/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Forbes |language=en}}{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2024-08-28 |title=A futurist explains 3 essential things needed to prepare for the imminent AI and biotech revolutions |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91174662/a-futurist-explains-3-essential-things-needed-to-prepare-for-the-imminent-ai-and-biotech-revolutions |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240902084726/https://www.fastcompany.com/91174662/a-futurist-explains-3-essential-things-needed-to-prepare-for-the-imminent-ai-and-biotech-revolutions |archive-date=2024-09-02 |access-date=2024-12-11 |work=Fast Company |language=en-US}}

Personal life

He is a marathon runner and triathlete.Basheer, K.P.M. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080129224946/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/14/stories/2007031420800200.htm "Putting creative minds together"], The Hindu, March 14, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011.[http://www.siiaonline.org/?q=events/tête-à-tête-america’s-role-a-fast-changing-asia "Tête-à-tête: America’s role in a fast-changing Asia"], Singapore Institute of International Affairs, May 18, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011.Shetty, Vinita A. [http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/dna-sunday-mumbai/mi_8112/is_20100502/marathon/ai_n53410318/ "Marathon man"], Daily News and Analysis Mumbai, May 2, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011.

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".[Metzl, Jamie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100407014727/http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2495/32/ "Judgment at Wikipedia"], Brown Alumni Magazine, March–April 2010, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 7, 2010. Accessed February 1, 2022.

Profiles

아시아 차세대 리더들, 한국서 배울 점 많아 (Chosun Ilbo, November 2006) [http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2006/11/17/2006111760012.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319150447/http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2006/11/17/2006111760012.html |date=March 19, 2012 }} {{in lang|ko}}
[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-metzl-lessons_n_6246106 A Modern Day Renaissance Man Shares Lessons on Happiness, Habits, and Health (Huffington Post, December 2014)]
[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/201811/polymath-jamie-metzl-ai-genetics-and-the-future Polymath Jamie Metzl on AI, Genetics, and the Future (Psychology Today, November 2018)]

Works

{{cite book|author= Jamie Frederic Metzl |title=Western Responses to Abuses in Cambodia, 1975-80|publisher=St. Martin's Press|year=1996|isbn=0-333-64325-9}}
{{cite book|author=Jamie Frederic Metzl|title=The Depths of the Sea|publisher=St. Martin's Press|date=May 2004|isbn=0-312-32202-X|url=https://archive.org/details/depthsofsea00metz}}
Jamie Frederic Metzl (2014) Genesis Code, Arcade. {{ISBN|1628724234}}{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/genesiscodethril0000metz|title=Genesis code : a thriller of the near future|last=Frederic|first=Metzl, Jamie|isbn=9781628724233|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=868648683|date=2014-11-04}}
Jamie Frederic Metzl (2016) Eternal Sonata, Arcade. ASIN: B01HDVCR4U
Jamie Frederic Metzl (April 2019) Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, Sourcebooks. {{ISBN|149267009X}}{{Cite book|title=Hacking Darwin : genetic engineering and the future of humanity|last=Frederic|first=Metzl, Jamie|isbn=9781492670094|location=Naperville, Illinois|oclc=1040198428|year = 2019}}