12 Facts About Jamie Metzl

Jamie Frederic Metzl was born on July 1,1968 and is an American geopolitical commentator, author, and former Clinton administration official.

Jamie Metzl is the author of five books, including science fiction novels and non-fiction.

Jamie Metzl attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri.

From 1991 to 1993, Jamie Metzl was a human rights officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, where he helped establish a human rights investigation and monitoring unit for Cambodia.

Jamie 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 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.

Jamie Metzl is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a former partner at the global investment company Cranemere LLC He was an executive vice president of the Asia Society.

Jamie Metzl authored a book on human rights in Southeast Asia and the novel The Depths of the Sea.

Jamie Metzl is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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

Jamie Metzl has been a vocal proponent of the COVID-19 lab leak theory.

Jamie Metzl is the author of the 2024 book Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World.