Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy

Director, Life Science and Society Initiative

Georgetown University

Washington D.C. 20057

Mailing address: Box 571444
3300 Whitehaven Street, N.W., Suite 5000
Washington, DC 20057-1485

Tel. 202 687 0703

Fax 301 924 8715

Email: schneidc@georgetown.edu

EMPLOYMENT

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington D.C 2004-

Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service

Courses in cultural diplomacy
Publications and public speaking on cultural diplomacy topics
Organized conference (co-organized with the Center for Arts and Culture), “Communicating with the World: Diplomacy that Works”, held at Georgetown University, April 30, 2003 (see www.cultural policy.org/issuepages/culturaldiplomacy.cfm and Cultural Diplomacy: Recommendations and Research, Center for Arts and Culture, July 2004, p.4)

Director, Life Science and Society Initiative; Pfizer Medical Humanities Fellow, 2004-2006

At the request of Georgetown’s President Jack DeGioia , have 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. Under Dr. Schneider’s direction, Georgetown hosted an International Life Sciences Summit in October, 2003, which attracted speakers such as Sen. Orrin Hatch, FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan, and Dr. Craig Venter and venture capitalist Leighton Reed (see www.lifesciencesummit.org). Proceedings are being published in a special supplement of The Journal of BioLaw and Business. The LSSI has hosted several invitational biodefenseconferences: a meeting on Smallpox Vaccination Adverse Effects Management in March 2003; and meetings in June 2003 and November 2004 on MIPS (Multiple Idiopathic Physical Symptoms), which addressed the impact on system capacity of psychosomatic reactions to bioterrorist events. Currently, Dr. Schneider is the Principle 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. She is also working with the State Department on two projects: 1) to improve the science and technology training for Foreign Service officers; 2) to organize an ongoing series of transatlantic conference on cutting edge issues in science and technology.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington D.C. 1984 to 1998, 2001-2004

Assistant Professor of Art History 1984-1990

Associate Professor of Art History 1990-

Courses: Diplomacy and the Arts, Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt; Rembrandt; Baroque Art; Old Master Drawings; Early Renaissance Art in Italy; Art of the High Renaissance in Italy; Michelangelo; Artists and Patrons in Renaissance Italy; Art and History of the Italian Renaissance (team taught with a History Professor); Renaissance to Modern Art.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington D.C. 1998-2001

Ambassador of the United States of America to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Initiatives in public and cultural diplomacy, biotechnology, cyber security, military affairs, and education, as well as work in international justice and the environment.. Selected examples:

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, frequently rated the most receptive country in Europe to the life sciences. 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.
Anti-corruption: hosted US delegation, led by Attorney General Ashcroft, to the Global Anti-Corruption Conference in The Hague, May 2001
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.
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 (see www.usemb.nl/schneide.htm ).

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON 1980?1984

Assistant Curator of European Paintings

EDUCATION

Harvard University Ph.D. in Fine Arts, 1984

Harvard University BA Magna cum Laude in Fine Arts, 1977

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Biotechnology: the Science and the Impact, proceedings of the conference of that name, held in The Hague, January, 2000, published in The Journal of BioLaw and Business. Organized conference wrote Introduction and Conclusion.

Another Salute: American Art in the Residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Claire van Cleave, Art in Embassies Program, The Hague, 2000.

Shop Talk: Essays in Honor of Seymour Slive, Harvard University Art Museums, 1995. Co-Editor with William Robinson and Alice Davies, author of an article, and

Originator and organizer of project. Volume of seventy-two essays published on the occasion of Seymour Slive's seventy-fifth birthday.

Rembrandt's Landscapes, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. The book presents a new assessment of Rembrandt’s achievement and development as a landscape painter.

Rembrandt's Landscapes: Drawings and Prints,

Exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1990. Catalogue accompanying the international loan exhibition of one hundred works, organized and selected by me.

With John Walsh, Jr., A Mirror of Nature: Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981. New expanded edition published 1992 by Cross River Press.

In Progress:

Telling America’s Story and Listening to Theirs, a study of the history of American cultural diplomacy, together with a study which asks whether and how America’s cultural assets – music, art, theatre, dance -- might be used to help accomplish American foreign policy goals. Recommendations for policy implementation also will be included.

ARTICLES:

Public Diplomacy and Life Science Policy

“The Science is Not Enough”, in Life Science, Healthcare & Society: New Choices, New Consequences, special edition of The Journal of BioLaw and Business with proceedings of conference held at Georgetown University under the auspices of the Life Science and Society Initiative, October 2003. (Forthcoming, December 2004).

“Culture Communicates: US Diplomacy that Works”, Discussion Papers in Diplomacy, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael, no.94, September 2004.

With Dr. Michael D. McDonald, “The ‘King of Terrors’ Revisited: the Smallpox Vaccination Campaign and its Lessons for Future Biopreparedness”, Journal for Law, Ethics, and Medicine, winter 2003, vol.31, no.4, pp. 580-589.

“Diplomacy that Works: ‘Best Practices in Cultural Diplomacy’”, white paper published by the Center for Arts and Culture, Washington D.C., 2003 (www.culturalpolicy.org/issuepages/culturalsiplomacy.cfm).

“Cultural Diplomacy as a Tool of Statecraft: Case Studies”, comments in Arts and Minds: Cultural Diplomacy amid Global Tensions, conference proceedings, Columbia University, National Arts Journalism Program, Arts International, Center for Arts and Culture, 2003, pp.61-62..

Art History

"Rembrandt Reversed: Reflections on the Early Self-Portrait Etchings", in Shop Talk: Essays in Honor of Seymour Slive, Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

"L'Art et la nature dans les paysages de Rembrandt", in Le Paysage en Europe du XVIieme au XVII ieme siecle, 'Conferences et colloques du Louvre', Reunion des musees Nationaux, 1994.

"Death by Interpretation: Rembrandt's Girl with Dead Peacocks", in Rembrandt and his Pupils, edited by Gorel Cavalli-Bjorkman, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1993.

Review of Perry Chapman, Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth- Century Identity (Princeton University Press, 1990), Journal of Modern History, 1992.

"Out of the Shadows: The Real Michelangelo", in Love and a Season: a Symposium in H onor of J. Donald Freeze, S.J., Georgetown University, 1991, pp.25-36.

"A New Look at the Museum of Fine Arts". Apollo 125 (1987) 142?43.

"A New Look at the Landscape with an Obelisk", Fenway Court, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1985) pp.7?21.

"Renoir: le Peintre de Figures comme Paysagiste", Apollo, 123, 1985, pp.49?56 (in English).

GRANTS AND FUNDED RESEARCH

Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, Scholar-in-Residence, 2004-2006

Rockefeller Foundation, grant 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”, 2003-04.

PAPERS AND LECTURES

Invited to speak on a wide range of topics including public and cultural diplomacy, U.S. European relations, American foreign policy various aspects of the life sciences, U.S. and European regulatory policies, women in the workplace, effective management strategies, and sustainable development and environmental issues. Public and Cultural Diplomacy Highlights:

“Challenges of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy Today”, Fifth Pan-European International Relations Conference, The Hague, Sept. 10, 2004
Salzburg Seminar, “American in Our Time”, Sept. 2-5, 2004, “Cultural Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs” working group leader
“Public Diplomacy: Using Our Greatest Asset to Enhance Our Security”, The Citadel, February 2, 2004
“Communicating with the World: Diplomacy that Works” (version 3) , The Citadel, February 2, 2004
“Culture Communicates: Diplomacy that Works” (version 2), Clingendael Institute, The Hague, November 21, 2003
“From Monticello to Mulan: Communicating Values through Culture”, Smith College, October 27, 2003
“Proud to be Humble: Implicit Identity and the Challenges of Multiculturalism in the Netherlands”, King Juan Carlos of Spain Center, NYU, June 2, 2003 (Netherlands Historical Association; my paper read by session chair, since I could not attend personally).
Communicating with the World: Diplomacy that Works “ (version 1) Fort Bragg, Regional Studies, May 20, 2003
Explaining America: Ideas and Icons from Thomas Jefferson to Walt Disney”, University of Virginia, Forum for Contemporary Thought, March 12, 2003

As U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1998-2001: speeches on above topics plus the global economy, Dutch- American relations, the glass ceiling, politics and culture in America, and traditions of freedom and democracy in America, as well as Dutch seventeenth century art and Rembrandt . 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.

Art History

"The Mystery of Vermeer", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 15, 1995; Georgetown University, Feb.1, 1996; and the Knickerbocker Club, New York, New York, April 23, 1996.

"The Golden Age of Dutch Art", Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, May 4, 1995.

"Means and Ends in Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings", Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, April 23, 1994.

"Behind the Double Dutch Door: Virtue and Vice in the Art and Age of Judith Leyster", National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., January 23, 1994.

"Reflections on A Mirror of Nature", Los Angeles Museum of Art, October 25, 1992.

"Death By Interpretation: Rembrandt's Girl with Two Peacocks", Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, "Rembrandt and his Pupils" symposium, October 1-3, 1992.

"Out of the Shadows: the Real Michelangelo", lecture delivered at the Georgetown symposium honoring the retiring Provost J. Donald Freeze, April 27, 1991.

"Rembrandt et le naturalisme Neerlandais", Musee du Louvre, Paris, January 1990 (delivered in French).

"Rembrandt's Landscapes: Out of the Ordinary", Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, U.C.L.A., October, 1989.

"One Cottage Too Many: Landscape Drawings by Rembrandt and his Followers." Standards in Attribution: Rubens and Rembrandt, Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, February 1989.

Other general lectures on Dutch art and lectures on Rembrandt's landscapes, delivered in the spring of 1990 at the National Gallery, Georgetown University, and the Harvard Club, Washington.

HONORS:

Office of the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Public Service Award, June 2001 ( highest civilian award given by Pentagon, in recognition of support for the U.S. military during ambassadorship; award last given twelve years ago).

Flevo Award, 2001 (awarded annually by the Province of Flevoland, the Netherlands) in recognition of international leadership.

U.S. Secret Service, Department of the Treasury, Honor Award, June 2001.

Honorary Member, Phi Beta Kappa ( Harvard University chapter).

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Chair, Search Committee for the Leavey Chair in the Foundation of American Freedoms, 2001-02 (E.J. Dionne selected).

Member of College Curriculum Committee, 1995-1996.

Member of University - wide Search Committee to select the University Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1990-92.

GOVERNMENT SERVICE:

Vice-Chair, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Appointed September 1994 by President Clinton. Term 1994-98.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS:

Corporate:

Member, Supervisory Board, Royal Ahold, Zaandam, the Netherlands (Nominations and governance, remuneration committee)

Member, Advisory Board, StrawberryFrog, Inc. ( New York and Amsterdam based marketing firm)

Not for Profit:

Member, Board of Directors, Council of American Ambassadors

Member, Board of Advisors, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

Member, International Board of Advisors, Institute for the Study of Europe,

Columbia University

Member, American Board, Anne Frank House Foundation

AFFILIATIONS :

Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution, 2002-05

Non-Resident Fellow, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 2002-05

LANGUAGES: Dutch, French (fluent), Italian, and German.

PERSONAL: Married to Thomas J. Schneider; mother of two children; resident of Sandy Spring, Md.