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Michael Gerson
August 8, 2008
Michael Gerson is the Roger
Hertog senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His
work focuses on issues of global health and development, religion
and foreign policy, and the democracy agenda. He is the author
of Heroic Conservatism (2007), a columnist syndicated with the
Washington Post Writers Group, and a contributor to Newsweek.
Before joining the Council in
July 2006, Mr. Gerson was a top aide to President George W. Bush
as assistant to the president for policy and strategic planning
(February 2005 to June 2006). Prior to that appointment, he served
in the White House as deputy assistant to the president and director
of presidential speechwriting (January 2001 to July 2002) and
assistant to the president for speechwriting and policy advisor
(July 2002 to February 2005).
Mr. Gerson joined Bush's presidential
campaign in early 1999 as chief speechwriter and senior policy
adviser. He was previously senior editor covering politics at
U.S. News and World Report. Mr. Gerson was a speechwriter and
policy adviser for Jack Kemp and a speechwriter for Bob Dole
during the 1996 presidential campaign. He has also served Senator
Dan Coats from Indiana as policy director.
Mr. Gerson serves on the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council, the Holocaust Memorial Museum's
Committee on Conscience, and on USAID's Advisory Committee on
Voluntary Foreign Aid. |
