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Revision as of 13:45, 28 May 2009 by Erik9bot (talk | contribs) (add template:uncategorized)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Jay Kenneth Katzen Most Recent Positions From February 2004 to January 2009, Jay served as the Peace Corps’ Regional Director overseeing 19 programs in Europe, the Mediterranean area, and Asia. From August 2005 to May 2006, Jay served concurrently as Acting Chief of Staff/Chief of Operations of the Peace Corps. Previously, in 2003, Jay was chosen in a national search to become CEO and President of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, charged by Congress and the White House -- with bipartisan support -- to erect a memorial in Washington to the 100 million victims of communism. The monument was unveiled and dedicated by the Foundation’s Honorary Chairman, President George W. Bush, in June 2007. Education Jay graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1958, and received his master's degree from Yale the following year. After finishing college he joined the Foreign Service, and learned five languages in the process: French, Romanian, Swahili, Lingala, and Kirundi. Jay attended the National Defense University and was a visiting professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Management. He has served on advisory boards at Duke and the University of Kentucky. Foreign Service Officer For over twenty-three years, Jay was a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State. His posts included Australia, Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa), communist Romania, Mali, and Congo (Brazzaville). He also served as Advisor/Political and Security Affairs at the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York. Business Experience Thereafter, through 1991, Jay served as senior advisor reporting directly to the corporate chairmen of Bechtel, Consolidated Gold Fields, Fluor, Kennecott, Newmont Mining, and Phelps Dodge, helping to steer those companies to successful investment opportunities abroad. Katzen was appointed by President Reagan and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Vice Chairman of the Board of the African Development Foundation, and served in that post for two years. Legislative Experience A Republican, Jay was elected in 1993 to represent the 31st legislative district of Fauquier, Rappahannock, and Warren counties in Virginia's House of Delegates. Jay was chosen freshman class president, a party whip, and co-patroned over 2,000 bills, including landmark legislation improving the quality of Virginia’s education, and reforming welfare and law enforcement. Jay was re-elected three times. Recognition Jay has been recognized by the Vietnam Veterans of America, Virginia's Council on Indians, 4-H, the Virginia Society for Human Life, the National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition, Virginia’s Armenian community, and the National Federation of Independent Business. He served as chairman of the Rappahannock River Basin Commission, and as a board member of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Jay was named the Family Foundation's Legislator of the Year in 1999. Jay was the Republican Party's nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 2001 and for Congress in Virginia’s Ninth District in 2002. Personal Jay and his wife, Paddy, live in Washington, D.C. and have three grown sons, all Eagle Scouts.
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