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

Resource Wars:  The New Landscape of Global Conflict by Michael Klare

MAY 22, 2001 Transcript

Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict

Competition for control of resources has been the root of many conflicts since the end of the Cold War, argues Klare. The view that resources ...

APR 11, 2001 Transcript

From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century

What will the future look like? Can we use history as a guide? Kennedy describes how the international political landscape changed after World War I, ...

NOV 17, 2000 Transcript

History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s

"The leaders of Western Europe share a direct responsibility for much of what went wrong in the Eastern half of the continent through the 1990s," ...