Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) or Wilson Center is a quasi-government entity and think tank which conducts research to inform public policy.[1] Located in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., it is a United States presidential memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968. So-named for Woodrow Wilson's achievement of being the only president of the United States to hold a PhD,[2] the center is also a think tank, ranked multiple times by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program as among the ten best in the world.[3][4][5][6]

"Wilson center" redirects here. For the center of the Wilson confidence interval, see Binomial proportion confidence interval § Wilson score interval.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Established1968 (1968)
TypeGovernment organization think tank
Legal statusUnited States Presidential Memorial
HeadquartersRonald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Location
President emerita and distinguished fellow
Jane Harman
Key people
Mark Andrew Green (director), Bill Haslam (chairman)
AffiliationsSmithsonian Institution
WebsiteWilsonCenter.org
This article is part of
a series about
Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the United States
First term
Second term

Woodrow Wilson's signature

Seal of the President of the United States

On January 28, 2021, Mark Andrew Green was announced as the Wilson Center's next president, director and CEO. He began his term on March 15, 2021.[7]

Organization and funding
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, where the Wilson Center is located.

The center was established within the Smithsonian Institution, but it has its own board of trustees, composed both of government officials and of individuals from private life appointed by the president of the United States. The center also publishes a digital magazine, the Wilson Quarterly.

The center is a public–private partnership. Approximately one-third of the center's operating funds come annually from an appropriation from the U.S. government, and the center itself is housed in a wing of the Ronald Reagan Building, a federal office building where the center enjoys a 30-year rent-free lease. The remainder of the center's funding comes from foundations, grants and contracts, corporations, individuals, endowment income, and subscriptions. Because of its historic reliance on congressional appropriations, the center posts on its website a Plan for Federal Funding Hiatus.[8]

Administration

The board of trustees, currently led by Bill Haslam, are appointed to six-year terms by the president of the United States.[9]

Board of Directors

  • Chairman: Bill Haslam, former governor of Tennessee
  • Vice chair: Drew Maloney
  • Private citizen members:
    • Nick Adams (commentator), Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG)
    • Thelma Duggin, president, AnBryce Foundation
    • Brian Hook, former U.S. special representative for Iran; senior policy advisor to the Secretary of State; and vice chairman, Cerberus Global Investments
    • David Jacobson, former U.S. ambassador to Canada and vice chair, BMO Financial Group
    • Timothy Pataki, former director of the Office of Public Liaison
    • Alan N. Rechtschaffen, private investor; senior lecturer of laws, New York University
    • Louis Susman, former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Public members:

Programs

Most of the center's staff form specialized programs and projects covering broad areas of study.[10] Key programs include: the Cold War International History Project, Environmental Change and Security Program, History and Public Policy Program, Kennan Institute, the Kissinger Institute, the Environmental Change and Security Program, and the North Korea International Documentation Project.

See also

References
  1. "Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars". www.usa.gov. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
  2. Link, Arthur (1978). "Wilson, Woodrow". A Princeton Companion. Princeton University.
  3. McGann, James (January 22, 2014). "2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report" (PDF). Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 7, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  4. McGann, James (January 29, 2019). "2019 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report". Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved March 30, 2022. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. McGann, James (January 28, 2021). "2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report". TTCSP Global Go to Think Tank Index Reports.
  6. McGann, James (January 29, 2016). "2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report". TTCSP Global Go to Think Tank Index Reports.
  7. "Wilson Center Names Ambassador Mark Green as Next President, Director and CEO". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  8. "Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Plan for Federal Funding Hiatus" (PDF). Woodrow Wilson Center. August 2015. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  9. "Leadership". February 7, 2023.
  10. "Programs @ The Woodrow Wilson Center". Wilsoncenter.org. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2014.

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