Cynthia P. Schneider

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, U.S. Relations with the Islamic World

Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider is a nonresident senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings. She leads the Arts and Culture Initiative in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and teaches courses in Diplomacy and Culture in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. | View Full Bio

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202.797.4396 — Gail Chalef, Director of Communications for Foreign Policy

202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of Communications

Resources

Expertise

  • Cultural diplomacy
  • Cultural relations between the U.S. and Muslim world

Experience

Current Positions

  • Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
  • Co-director, Muslims on Screen and Television Initiative (MOST)

Past Positions

  • U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (1998-2001)
  • Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University
  • Associate Professor of Art History, Georgetown University

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University, 1984

  • B.A., Harvard University, 1975

Language Fluency

  • Dutch
  • French
  • Italian

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