Lee H. Hamilton is director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University, founded by Hamilton in 1999 when he left public office. The Center on Congress is a nonpartisan educational institution, whose mission is twofold: to help Americans better understand Congress and its role in sustaining the health of our democracy; and to teach young people and adults how to communicate their concerns to Congress, so that it may truly be the responsive “people’s branch” that the framers intended.
Hamilton served as President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC from January 1999 to December 2010. The Woodrow Wilson Center, the nation’s official memorial to President Woodrow Wilson, is a pre-eminent intellectual haven where scholars, policymakers, and business leaders engage in a comprehensive and non-partisan dialogue on public policy issues, their deep historical backgrounds, and their effect on national and international thought and governance.
Prior to becoming president and director of the Center on Congress, and of the Wilson Center, Mr. Hamilton served for thirty-four years...