Meeting of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy

The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy will meet on Wednesday, September 12, 2007, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in Room 150 at the National Academy of Sciences Building at 2100 C Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418. The meeting is open to the public. The Commissioners plan to discuss the human resources dimension of the State Department’s public diplomacy programs and operations; and legislative branch-based public diplomacy programming.

The Commission is a bipartisan panel created by Congress in 1948 to assess public diplomacy policies and programs of the U.S. government and of publicly funded nongovernmental organizations. The Commission reports its findings and recommendations to the President, the Congress, the Secretary of State, and the American people.