Aug. 1, 2011
GW President Steven Knapp recently joined academic, business and government leaders as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Council of Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
New members are named twice a year by the organization's board of directors, which invites individuals to join based on recommendations by the membership committee. Council on Foreign Relations’ ranks include top government officials, renowned scholars, business leaders, acclaimed journalists, prominent attorneys and a host of distinguished nonprofit professionals.
The council’s bimonthly “Foreign Affairs” is widely considered to be the most influential magazine for the analysis and debate of foreign policy and economics.
Dr. Knapp has also been named a member of the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C., and appointed to the Economic Club of Washington’s Board of Directors. The World Affairs Councils of America is the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots organization in the United States dedicated to educating and engaging the American public on global issues. The Economic Club of Washington offers a forum in which prominent business and government leaders can express their views on the most important economic issues of the day and how those issues affect the region, the nation and the world.
In addition, Dr. Knapp serves on the boards of directors of the Greater Washington Urban League and the National Symphony Orchestra and the boards of trustees of the Washington National Cathedral Foundation and Al Akhawayan University in Ifrane, Morocco. He is also a member of the senior advisory board of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness and the education committee of the Federal City Council.