ASPEN INSTITUTE
Dan Glickman is Vice President of the Aspen Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center where he is co-chair of its Democracy Project. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, he served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton Administration. He was appointed by former Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack as the Chair of the newly created Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, currently serving on their board. He also represented the 4th Congressional district of Kansas for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives where he was very involved in federal farm policy on the House Agriculture Committee. He also served on the House Judiciary Committee, the House Science Committee, and as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is the former chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. and former director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He chairs the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and is a member of the Boards of the World Food Program-USA, Food Research & Action Center and Issue One, Chair of the International Advisory Council of APCO Worldwide. He is also a longtime member of the Board of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
