JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION APPOINTS TOP JOURNALIST TO LEAD COMMUNICATIONS DRIVE
West Conshohocken, Pa. – The John Templeton Foundation has named Gary Rosen to the newly created position of Chief External Affairs Officer. He arrives at the Foundation after more than a decade as an editor at Commentary, one of the country’s foremost intellectual magazines.
In this new role, Rosen will lead a global effort to raise awareness of the Foundation’s leadership in scientific and academic research and philanthropy. He will direct a strategic communications effort using the Internet, traditional media, in-house publications, conferences and events to raise the visibility and reach of the Foundation and its programs. Rosen will also work to establish the Foundation’s website (www.templeton.org) as an on-line destination and world-class forum for opinion and research on the Foundation’s broad spectrum of “core themes.”
Rosen brings to the Templeton Foundation both a formidable academic background and a track record of success at the highest levels of opinion journalism. While serving as an editor at Commentary, where he wrote on a range of subjects, Rosen also contributed regularly to the top opinion forums in the country, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He has appeared frequently on radio and TV, including MSNBC, Fox News, the BBC, C-SPAN, The History Channel and The Colbert Report. Rosen is the author of American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding (1999) and the editor of The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq (2005). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a graduate of Stanford University, he received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1996.
About the John Templeton Foundation
Established in 1987 by renowned global investor Sir John Templeton, the mission of the John Templeton Foundation is to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in areas engaging life’s biggest questions. These questions range from explorations into the laws of nature and the universe to questions on the nature of love, gratitude, forgiveness, and creativity. Our vision is derived from John Templeton’s commitment to rigorous scientific research and related scholarship. The Foundation’s motto “How little we know, how eager to learn” exemplifies our support for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advancing human progress and breakthrough discoveries. For more information, visit www.templeton.org