serves as a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she co-directs the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics with playwright and theater director Derek Goldman.
Cynthia Perrin Schneider[1] studied Fine Arts at Harvard University, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1977 and her doctorate in 1984.
[2] Schneider started her professional career in 1980 as an assistant curator of European paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she stayed until 1984.
Her field of responsibility included initiatives in public and cultural diplomacy, biotechnology, cyber security, military affairs, and education, as well as work in international justice and the environment.
Notable projects undertaken by Schneider during her ambassadorship include an oral history of World War II veterans and survivors, published on CD and distributed throughout the Dutch school system;[5] a partnership with the North Sea Jazz Festival; a two-day conference on "Biotechnology: the Science and the Impact" in January 2000; and a cyber security panel co-hosted with Royal Dutch Shell and the RAND Corporation.
She was also the principal investigator on a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to research and define "best practices" in public-private partnerships for agricultural biotechnology in development.
as co-director of The Lab with Derek Goldman, a theater director, playwright, and professor of performing arts at Georgetown University.
[citation needed] Schneider also co-directs the Timbuktu Renaissance, a Malian-American initiative supporting Mali's recovery from conflict through a focus on culture, and the Los Angeles-based Muslims on Screen and Television (MOST) resource.