Patrick Mendis is a distinguished senior fellow and an affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University's School of Public Policy. He is also a distinguished visiting professor of international relations at the Center for American Studies of the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou China. An alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota Dr. Mendis has worked for the U. S. Departments of Agriculture Defense Energy and State as well as the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee the World Bank and the United Nations. He is a commissioner of the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO an advisor to Harvard International Review and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. Language: English