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Cynthia Perrin Schneider (born August 16, 1953) is an American diplomat. She was born in Pennsylvania, United States. She studied Fine Arts at Harvard University, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1977 and her doctorate in 1984. With her husband Thomas J. Schneider, she has two children. She was the 61st United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from June 29, 1998 to June 17, 2001.〔〔()〕 Cynthia P.Schneider speaks Dutch, French, Italian, and German languages. ==Professional activity== Cynthia P. Schneider started her professional career in the year 1980 as an assistant curator of European paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she stayed till the year 1984. As Associate Professor of Art History at Georgetown University, in the period between 1984–1990, Cynthia P. Schneider was involved with several courses, publications, and exhibitions in Baroque and Renaissance art, with a specialization in Dutch art of the seventeenth century and Rembrandt. In 1998 she joined the Department of State as the Ambassador for the United States of America to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Her field of responsibility included initiatives in public and cultural diplomacy, biotechnology, cyber security, military affairs, and education, as well as work in international justice and the environment. And as such: * Public and Cultural Diplomacy: White House Millennium Project of oral histories by Dutch high school students of World War II veterans and survivors, published on CD and distributed throughout Dutch school system * Partnership with North Sea Jazz Festival and annual North Sea Jazz Jam session at the American Embassy * Assembled museum-quality collection of American art, and published catalogue of the collection Another Salute * Biotechnology: Organized and hosted a two day conference “Biotechnology: the Science and the Impact” (January 2000, 450 attendees, 80 press and media) which is credited with fostering a positive climate for biotechnology in The Netherlands. Follow up conference co-hosted by the EU Ministry of the Environment, held at Ministry in Brussels. * Cyber-security: co-hosted with Royal Dutch Shell and the Rand Corporation a conference on cyber security that brought together U.S. and EU officials and private sector experts to examine their respective roles and responsibilities in addressing this problem. * Kyoto Protocol and Climate Change: hosted US delegation of over 100 to the COP-6 Climate Change Conference in The Hague in November 2000. * International Justice: responsible for US cooperation with and assistance to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY); acted as a liaison between the US government (State Department, White House, and FBI), the Tribunal, the Dutch government and NATO; top U.S. official in the Netherlands responsible for the Lockerbie trial of the two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am 103. * Political/Military: Liaison between the Dutch and American military in coordinating with the Dutch before and during the Kosovo war. Groundwork towards successful sale of Joint Strike Fighter to Dutch. * Speeches on wide range of topics including the global economy, biotechnology, Dutch American relations, the glass ceiling, politics and culture in America, and traditions of freedom and democracy in America and in Europe . Was the first American to be invited to give the keynote address on the annual Dutch commemoration of the liberation from the Nazis (May 5, 2000, “Freedom Must be Passed On”) and the first non-Dutch speaker to deliver the annual William of Orange lecture (June 5, 2001, “Culture, Society, and Government”). See www.usemb.nl/schneide.htm for speeches as Ambassador. Starting from the year 2004 Cynthia P. Schneider has been a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University. Her duties include: * Courses in diplomacy and culture * Publications and public speaking on cultural diplomacy topics * Organizing conference “Communicating with the World: Diplomacy that Works”, held at Georgetown University, April 30, 2003 and Cultural Diplomacy: Recommendations and Research, Center for Arts and Culture, July 2004, p. 4 As the Director of Life Science and Society Initiative (LSSI); Pfizer Medical Humanities Fellow, 2004-2006 Cynthia P. Schneider * Initiated program to pool and strengthen Georgetown’s resources in the science, ethics, policy, law, and international dimensions of the life sciences to address for the public and the Congress the challenges of the integration of the life sciences into daily life. * Was principal investigator on a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to research and define “Best Practices” in public-private partnerships for agricultural biotechnology in the development world. In 2006 Cynthia P. Schneider became a Senior Non-Resident Fellow and Coordinator of Arts and Culture Initiative of Brookings Institution at Saban Center for Middle East Policy. She is currently involved in a project about U.S. Relations with the Islamic World: * She develops programs and projects that represent a unique blend of policy and the arts in the area of U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Since 2006, she has built up a network of over 50 organizations and over 200 leaders in arts and culture engaged in leveraging the potential of cultural connections to increase understanding on both sides. * Organized annual Arts and Cultural Leaders sessions at the U.S. Islamic World Forum (Doha, Qatar) * Published Mightier than the Sword: Arts and Culture in the U.S- Muslim World Relationship; New Way Forward: Encouraging Greater Cultural Engagement with the Muslim World * She is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Muslims on Screen and Television (MOST): A Cross Cultural Resource Center. * Since 2011, Schneider is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of the Peace Research Endowment. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cynthia P. Schneider」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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