Dr. Cynthia Schneider
Professor, Georgetown University
Biography:
Dr. Cynthia P. Schneider is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Director of the Life Science and Society Initiative (LSSI) and at Georgetown University. For 2004-2006 she has been named Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative Scholar-in-Residence. In addition she has been awarded a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for the project “Ethics Meets the Marketplace: Towards a Model Framework Harnessing the Potential of the Life Sciences to Improve Agriculture and Animal Agriculture in the Developing World”.
A member of the Georgetown University faculty since 1984, Ambassador Schneider has taught both in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Foreign Service. She has published articles cultural and public diplomacy, on life science policy as well as several books and numerous articles on Rembrandt and Dutch art of the seventeenth century.
Cynthia Schneider is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, the Institute for the Study of Europe at Columbia University, and of the Anne Frank Foundation American Board. She is a non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, and at the Brookings Institution. Schneider also previously served on the Supervisory Board of the international food conglomerate Royal Ahold until 2005.
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