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Patrick Mendis is an educator,〔http://mason.gmu.edu/~pmendis/〕 diplomat,〔http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2012/03/23/former-m-state-student-now-a-diplomat/〕 author,〔http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=patrick+mendis author〕 and executive in government service in the United States.〔http://www.asianamerican.net/bios/Mendis-Patrick.html〕 A Rajawali senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University and a visiting fellow of Peking University's School of International Studies,〔http://www.china.org.cn/china/2015-09/10/content_36552444.htm〕 the Sri Lankan-born American diplomat is also serving as a commissioner of the US National Commission for UNESCO at the State Department.〔http://www.sundaytimes.lk/120115/BusinessTimes/bt17.html〕 He is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. Mendis is currently a distinguished scholar and senior expert at the US Confucius Institute at George Mason University GMU) and served as a distinguished senior fellow and affiliate professor of public and international affairs in the School of Public Policy at GMU.〔http://patrickmendis.gmu.edu〕 Dr. Mendis is an adjunct professor of geography and geoinformation science at GMU.〔http://mason.gmu.edu/~pmendis〕 Mendis taught MBA/MPA as well as international trade and American foreign policy courses at the University of Minnesota, University of Maryland, and Yale University before joining the U.S. Department of State, where he served under Secretary Madeleine Albright and General Colin Powell. In 2012, Secretary Hillary Clinton has appointed Professor Mendis as a commissioner to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and reappointed by Secretary John Kerry.〔http://www.minnpost.com/political-agenda/2012/07/patrick-mendis-named-us-national-commission-unesco〕 He has worked in, and traveled to, more than 100 countries and visited all 50 states in the United States. Previously, Mendis worked at the Minnesota House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the World Bank, and the United Nations.〔http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2012/03/23/former-m-state-student-now-a-diplomat/〕 After his government service (in the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy and State), Mendis returned to academia〔http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/14126〕 where he served as the vice president of the Osgood Center for International Studies and as a foreign policy visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.〔http://www.dailycolonial.com/go.php?p=3&s=4292〕 He is an alumnus of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Mendis was elected to serve on the board of the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Alumni DC Council in Washington (2010-2014) and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the ''Harvard International Review.''〔http://hir.harvard.edu/our-advisory-board〕 Dr. Mendis has authored more than 100 journal articles, government reports, newspaper columns, and several books, including most recently, ''Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order'' (2013),〔https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780761861874〕 ''Commercial Providence: The Secret Destiny of the American Empire'' (2010),〔http://www.amazon.com/dp/0761852441/ref=cm_sw_su_dp〕 and ''TRADE for PEACE: How the DNA of America, Freemasonry, and Providence Created a New World Order with Nobody in Charge'' (2009).〔http://sundaytimes.lk/090628/FinancialTimes/ft312.html〕 == Early years in Sri Lanka and Minnesota == Patrick Mendis was born in the medieval capital of Polonnaruwa in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and grew up in Minnesota, USA.〔http://sundaytimes.lk/120115/BusinessTimes/bt17.html〕 In Sri Lanka, he was a Boy Scout, a Sarvodaya volunteer, a Police Cadets sergeant, and a commander of the Army Cadets Corps of Sri Lanka. Major General Milinda Peiris, the vice chancellor of the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), presented Mendis the KDU Award recognizing his contribution to Sri Lanka.〔http://www.kdu.ac.lk/index.php?id=168〕 He also received the UNESCO Award by the United Nations Association of Sri Lanka. At Sarvodaya, Mendis worked with his mentor, A. T. Ariyaratne, the "Gandhi of Sri Lanka" and founder of Sarvodaya and later established a number of tsunami scholarships and the Sarvodaya Peace Prize.〔http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/03/08/news32.asp〕 For his contributions, Mendis is recognized with the Sarvodaya International Peace Award and the Sri Lanka Foundation's Outstanding Leadership Award for International Diplomacy (in Los Angeles, California, USA). At the age of 18, he won one of the nine AFS scholarships among over 100,000 applicants in Sri Lanka and attended high school in Perham, Minnesota. After graduation from Perham High School in 1979, Mendis traveled by bus to Washington, D.C., where he met President Jimmy Carter's Vice President Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota) and U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minnesota), who have been friends and supporters of Mendis all these years. After returning from the United States, the Government of Sri Lanka offered him a scholarship to attend the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, where Mendis served as the vice president of the World University Service, the president of the University Sports Council, and a member of the University’s badminton, athletic, and swimming teams. He earned his BSc in business administration and economics (First Class Honours) in 1983, served as the "Youth Ambassador" of Sri Lanka at the first UN World Conference on the International Year of the Youth in New York in 1985, and later endowed two annual scholarships in leadership and management studies in 1993 at his university in Sri Lanka.〔http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/03/08/news32.asp〕 In 1983, Mendis returned to the United States on a Hubert Humphrey fellowship for graduate studies at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. In Minnesota, he worked in the Minnesota House of Representatives with the late legendary parliamentarian and chief clerk of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Honorable Edward A. Burdick.〔http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=117706823〕 At the University of Minnesota, Mendis studied under the late NATO Ambassador Harlan Cleveland, the founding dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and served as his special assistant when Cleveland became the president of the World Academy of Art and Science.〔http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060503520.html〕 After earning his PhD in Geography/Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1989, Mendis served as a Lecturer in International Relations and a Visiting Scholar in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota from 1990 to 1997. During his tenure, Mendis worked with the late Regents Professor Vernon Ruttan and authored a book, ''Human Environment and Spatial Relations in Agricultural Production'' and four Staff Papers published by the University of Minnesota's Department of Applied Economics.〔http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/items-by-author?author=Mendis%2C+++Patrick〕 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「Patrick Mendis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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