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Jim Spiegelman is responsible for engaging both internal and external audiences in Institute programs and activities and serves as the organization's spokesman. Jim manages relations with the public and news media and provides strategic communications counsel to all Institute programs. His department manages the Institute’s website, produces the bi-annual magazine, The Aspen Idea, and designs and produces most of the Institute's publications. He oversees both the Washington Ideas Roundtable Series and the Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series, and helps conceive and manage the Institute's myriad public programs, including the Aspen Ideas Festival. Jim previously was a consulting editor at BusinessWeek magazine, where he designed and managed global conferences on economic, political, and business topics. He has also been chief-of-staff at the United Nations Association of the USA; an analyst for a global hedge fund; special assistant to financier/philanthropist George Soros; deputy policy director for the 1992 Presidential campaign of then-US Senator Bob Kerrey; research/program director at Georgetown University's School of Business; and a foreign affairs fellow in the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress. His articles have appeared in numerous publications. He received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from the School of International Service at American University.