Joanne J. Myers

Former Director, Public Affairs Program, Carnegie Council

Joanne Myers was director of the Carnegie Council's Public Affairs Programs (formerly Merrill House Programs). She was responsible for planning and organizing more than 50 public programs a year at the Council, many of which have been featured on C-SPAN's Booknotes.

Myers is also a columnist and advisory board member for PassBlue, an independent digital publication that covers the United Nations.

Before joining the Council, she was director of the Consular Corps/Deputy General Counsel at the New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol, where she acted as the liaison between the mayor of New York and the consulates general. Myers holds a JD from Benjamin C. Cardozo School of Law and a BA in international relations from the University of Minnesota.

Featured Work

OCT 25, 2011 Podcast

Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order

The U.S. may no longer be a unipolar power, but the world order it helped create is alive and well. The rise of  other ...

America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare

OCT 18, 2011 Podcast

America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare

From the personal to the corporate to the national, our data is constantly at risk, says Joel Brenner. But it's like gravity; there's not much ...

OCT 13, 2011 Podcast

Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

Why pretend that economics is value free? It's a product of our civilization and riddled with moral judgements, says Sedlacek. By separating economics from ethics ...

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OCT 3, 2011 Podcast

The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad

U.S. Foreign Service officer John Schmidt explains how the complex, dangerous relationship between the leaders of Pakistan and various jihadist groups came about, and ...

SEP 18, 2011 Podcast

Does the Elephant Dance?: Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy

Former Canadian High Commissioner to India David Malone gives a comprehensive survey of contemporary Indian foreign policy. He begins by focusing on India's geography, history, ...

Image of Book Cover - That Used to Be Us:  How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

SEP 14, 2011 Podcast

That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

What can America do as it faces four major challenges--globalization, the revolution in information technology, chronic deficits, and its energy consumption?

JUL 5, 2011 Podcast

Steve Forbes on Civility in Corporate America

Economic uncertainty is a source of incivility, declares Forbes. He touches on education, politics, history, free markets, and the establishment of a new gold standard ...

JUL 5, 2011 Podcast

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

For two years, Levy was given an opportunity to observe Google's operations, development, culture, and advertising model from within the infrastructure, with full managerial cooperation. ...

JUN 24, 2011 Podcast

Henry Kaufman on Civility in the Financial Sector

What is the underlying source of the current financial turmoil? It is not lack of technological knowledge about how to structure and to trade securities. ...

What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism

JUN 16, 2011 Podcast

What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism

Drawing on neuroscience, Jack Fuller explains why the information overload of contemporary life makes us dramatically more receptive to sensational news, while rendering the objective ...