Biography of Karl D. Jackson

KARL D. JACKSON

        Karl D. Jackson is the Director of the Asian Studies Program of the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Concurrently, as C.V. Starr

Distinguished Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, he directs the Southeast Asia

Studies Program at SAIS. He was a faculty member in the Political Science Department

of the University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1991.

        Mr. Jackson served as the National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States from 1991-1993. Prior to that, he was Special Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director for Asian Affairs in the National Security Council, 1989-1991. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia from 1986-1989. From 1995-2005 Mr. Jackson was the President of the U.S.-Thailand Business Council. In 2005-2007 Mr. Jackson served as senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank and to the Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation.

        Mr. Jackson authored Traditional Authority, Islam and Rebellion: a Study of Indonesian Political Behavior (1980) and edited Cambodia 1975-1978: Rendezvous with Death (1989) and Asian Contagion: The Causes and Consequences of a Financial Crisis (1999). ASEAN in Regional and International Context (1986), and United States – Thailand

Relations (1986).