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About Carnegie Corporation
Stephen J. Del Rosso, Jr.
Program Director, International Peace and Security
Stephen J. Del
Rosso, Jr., brings extensive policy, academic and philanthropic
experience and understanding in international relations to Carnegie
Corporation of New York as director of the International Peace and
Security program.
Del
Rosso was recruited to Carnegie Corporation by President Vartan
Gregorian from the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations where he
served as director of programs for one of the country's largest
and most active international affairs forums. Del Rosso brings a
strong background in foundation work having managed The Pew Charitable
Trusts' "Global Security" grantmaking program for almost
six years and coordinated the foundation's final efforts in Eastern
and Central Europe. A former career diplomat, Del Rosso served nearly
ten years in the Foreign Service with overseas assignments in Central
America and the Caribbean during the height of U.S. engagement in
the region in the mid-80's. In Washington, he served in the operations
center and on the secretariat staff of Secretary of State George
P. Shultz, accompanying him on numerous overseas missions. His other
state department assignments included program coordinator of the
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, arms control
legislative management officer and director of the office of legislative
operations. He also was a presidential management intern in the
international affairs division of NASA, news producer at Voice of
America and principal staff assistant to British Member of Parliament
Sir Julian Critchley.
Del
Rosso holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of
Pennsylvania, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
where he was an Earhart Fellow, a diploma in international studies
from the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies, and a B.A. in English from Tufts University.
He
serves as chairman of the board of the Baltic-American Partnership
Fund, an independent grantmaking foundation established by USAID
and the Open Society Institute, and is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies,
Human Rights Watch Europe and Central Asia Advisory Committee, Geneva
Centre for Security Policy Advisory Board, Foreign Policy Roundtable
of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, American
Political Science Association and International Studies Association.
Del
Rosso is married to Joy Miller Del Rosso, an international school
health and nutrition advisor, and has two college-age daughters;
Tamara and Stephanie. He is the author of and contributor to various
publications on international security and American foreign policy.
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