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
NOV 15, 2006 • Podcast
The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power
James Traub discusses the troubled relationship between the UN and the world's only superpower.
OCT 18, 2006 • Podcast
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
Vali Nasr argues that the Shia Crescent--stretching from Lebanon and Syria through the Gulf to Iraq and Iran, finally terminating in Pakistan and India--is gathering ...
OCT 11, 2006 • Podcast
The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
Professor Philip Jenkins argues that by the year 2025, Africa and Latin America will have the largest number of Christians in the world. According to Jenkins, ...
OCT 5, 2006 • Podcast
Making Globalization Work
Economist Joseph Stiglitz offers new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate, including a plan to restructure the global financial system, ideas for ...
SEP 26, 2006 • Podcast
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
The twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence ...
SEP 20, 2006 • Podcast
Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together
Senator John Danforth argues that religious people should engage in politics, but, he notes, "there is a difference between engaging in politics and transforming politics ...
SEP 15, 2006 • Podcast
Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America
International resentment and lack of legitimacy is the high price that America is paying for its imperial ambitions, says Josef Joffe. To repair the damage, ...
SEP 7, 2006 • Podcast
Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Network
"Khan has wreaked havoc on attempts to restrain the spread of nuclear technology," says Gordon Corera. "He has lowered the barriers of entry for the ...
JUN 21, 2006 • Podcast
New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
Journalist (and South Africa resident) Hunter-Gault gives a surprisingly optimistic assessment of modern Africa, revealing that there is more to the continent than the bad ...
JUN 12, 2006 • Podcast
Debate--The United Nations: Still Relevant After All These Years?
Is the UN "I" for irrelevant, or "I" for indispensable, as Shashi Tharoor would have it? While conceding that the UN is relevant, Ruth Wedgwood ...