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Patrick Mendis is an educator, diplomat, author, and executive in government service in the United States. A former American diplomat and military professor during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations, he held various positions in the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, and State. He was appointed twice as a commissioner of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO at the State Department by the Obama administration. His appointment to the UNESCO Commission ended during the Trump administration when the White House withdrew from the UN agency. He is currently a presidential advisor to the US National Security Education Board, an appointment by the Biden White House, as well as the inaugural Taiwan chair and distinguished visiting professor of international relations at the
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in Krakow, Poland. A Taiwan fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (ROC), Dr. Mendis served as a distinguished visiting professor of global affairs at the
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and a senior fellow of the Taiwan Center for Security Studies in Taipei. Previously, he was a distinguished visiting professor of Sino-American relations at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in the People's Republic of China (PRC). He is currently a distinguished visiting professor of transatlantic relations at the University of Warsaw in Poland. After serving as a Rajawali senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a visiting professor of Peking University's School of International Studies, Mendis served as a distinguished visiting professor of Asian-Pacific affairs at
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in China as well as an associate-in-research of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is a fellow of the
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. Mendis served as a distinguished senior fellow and affiliate professor of public and international affairs in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Dr. Mendis is an adjunct professor of geography and geoinformation science at GMU. Mendis taught MBA/MPA as well as international trade and American foreign policy courses at the
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,
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, and
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before joining the
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, where he served under Secretary
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and General
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. In 2012, Secretary
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appointed Professor Mendis as a commissioner to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and reappointed by Secretary
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. He has worked in, and traveled to, more than 130 countries, visited all 50 states in the United States, and visited all provinces of China. Earlier in his life, Mendis worked at the Minnesota House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the World Bank, and the United Nations. After his government service (in the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy and State), Mendis returned to academia where he served as the vice president of the Osgood Center for International Studies and as a foreign policy visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University's
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(SAIS) in Washington, D.C. He is an alumnus of Harvard University's
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and the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Mendis was elected to serve on the board of the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Alumni DC Council in Washington (2010-2014) and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the ''
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.'' He has established the Edward Burdick Legislative Award at the Humphrey School and the Millennials Award for Leadership and Service at Harvard University. Dr. Mendis has authored more than 100 journal articles, government reports, newspaper columns, and several books, including most recently, '' Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order'' (2013), '' Commercial Providence: The Secret Destiny of the American Empire'' (2010), and ''TRADE for PEACE: How the DNA of America, Freemasonry, and Providence Created a New World Order with Nobody in Charge'' (2009).


Early years in Sri Lanka and Minnesota

Patrick Mendis was born in the medieval capital of
Polonnaruwa Poḷonnaruwa, (; ) also referred as Pulathisipura and Vijayarajapura in History of Sri Lanka, ancient times, is the main town of Polonnaruwa District in North Central Province, Sri Lanka. The modern town of Polonnaruwa is also known as New Town, ...
in Ceylon (
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...
) and grew up in
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, USA. In Sri Lanka, he was a Boy Scout, a Sarvodaya volunteer, a Police Cadets sergeant, and a commander of the Army Cadets Corps of Sri Lanka. Major General Milinda Peiris, the vice chancellor of the
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) ( Sinhala: ජෙනරාල් ශ්‍රිමත් ජෝන් කොතලාවල ආරක්ෂක විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය ''General Sir John Kotelawala'' ''Ar ...
(KDU), presented Mendis the KDU Award recognizing his contribution to Sri Lanka. He also received the UNESCO Award by the United Nations Association of Sri Lanka. At
Sarvodaya Sarvōdaya ( ''wikt:सर्व, sarv-'' "all", ''wikt:उदय, uday'' "rising") is a Sanskrit term which generally means "universal uplift" or "progress of all". The term was used by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi as the title of ...
, Mendis worked with his mentor,
A. T. Ariyaratne Sri Lankabhimanya Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne (; 5 November 1931 – 16 April 2024) was a Sri Lankan activist, founder and president of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement. He was nominated to the Constitutional Council as a civil representati ...
, the "Gandhi of Sri Lanka" and founder of Sarvodaya and later established a number of tsunami scholarships and the Sarvodaya Peace Prize. For his contributions, Mendis is recognized with the Sarvodaya International Peace Award and the Sri Lanka Foundation's Outstanding Leadership Award for International Diplomacy (in Los Angeles, California, USA). At the age of 18, he won one of the nine AFS scholarships among over 100,000 applicants in Sri Lanka and attended high school in Perham, Minnesota. After graduation from Perham High School in 1979, Mendis traveled by bus to Washington, D.C., where he met President Jimmy Carter's Vice President
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(D-Minnesota) and U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minnesota), who have been friends and supporters of Mendis all these years. After returning from the United States, the Government of Sri Lanka offered him a scholarship to attend the
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, where Mendis served as the vice president of the World University Service, the president of the University Sports Council, and a member of the University's badminton, athletic, and swimming teams. He earned his BSc in business administration and economics (First Class Honours) in 1983, served as the " Youth Ambassador" of Sri Lanka at the first UN World Conference on the International Year of the Youth in New York in 1985, and later endowed two annual scholarships in leadership and management studies in 1993 at his university in Sri Lanka. In 1983, Mendis returned to the United States on a Hubert Humphrey fellowship for graduate studies at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. In Minnesota, he worked in the
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with parliamentarian and chief clerk of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Honorable Edward A. Burdick. At the University of Minnesota, Mendis studied under the late NATO Ambassador
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, the founding dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and served as his special assistant when Cleveland became the president of the World Academy of Art and Science. After earning his PhD in geography/applied economics at the University of Minnesota in 1989, Mendis served as a lecturer in international relations and a visiting scholar in agricultural and applied economics at the University of Minnesota from 1990 to 1997. During his tenure, Mendis worked with the late Regents Professor Vernon Ruttan and authored a book, ''Human Environment and Spatial Relations in Agricultural Production'' and four staff papers published by the University of Minnesota's Department of Applied Economics.


International relations

With his legislative experience at the
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(under Honorable Edward A. Burdick), he worked for Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minnesota), serving on the staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mendis was assigned to manage the Middle East and Asian issues and coordinate with President Ronald Reagan's White House. Mendis then returned to Minnesota and graduated with his MA in international development and foreign affairs from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs in 1986 where he received the first Humphrey Alumni Award for Outstanding Leadership, along with former Vice President
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(under President Jimmy Carter), President Ronald Reagan's Ambassador
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, and UN Environment Programme's Executive Director Mustafa Tolba. With Ambassador
Jayantha Dhanapala Jayantha Dhanapala (; 30 December 1938 – 27 May 2023) was a Sri Lankan diplomat. A career diplomat in the Sri Lanka Overseas Service, he served as the Under Secretary General to re-establish the Department of Disarmament from 1998 to 2003; Am ...
, Mendis represented the Government of Sri Lanka as "Youth Ambassador" at the 1985 UN International Year of the Youth (IYY) in New York. It was a political appointment by the Government of Sri Lanka (at the suggestion of the late President
Ranasinghe Premadasa Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa ( ''Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa''; ''Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā''; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993) was a Sri Lankan politician and statesman who served as the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 unt ...
) to honor Mendis' service at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Professor Karunasena Kodituwakku the vice chancellor of the University, recommended Mendis to the Minister of Youth and Sports Affairs,
Ranil Wickramasinghe Ranil Wickremesinghe (; ; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the ninth president of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He has also served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1993–1994, 2001–2004, 2015–2018, 2018-2019 a ...
, who was the ex Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. (Mendis also worked at the World Bank and served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of State after representing the Government of Sri Lanka at the UN, where he received the UN Medal for the IYY). In Minnesota (1986–96), Mendis served as the President of the
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, the Vice President of the
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, a public speaker at the Minnesota International Center and the Founding Chairman of The Saint Paul Foundation's Asian-Pacific Endowment for Community Development. In 1994, Ambassador
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, the President of World Academy of Art and Science, appointed Mendis as an associate fellow of the Academy. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the Saint Paul-Minneapolis Committee of the
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. In 2000, Mendis was elected as a fellow of the World Academy. He currently serves as an executive committee member of the Geneva-based World Network of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs. For his leadership and scholarship, he received the State of Minnesota's Asian-Pacific Heritage Award, the Minnesota Governor
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's Certificate of Honorary Citizenship, the Minnesota Governor
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Award for United Nations Affairs, the University of Minnesota President's Leadership and Service Award, and the 21st Century Trust Fellowship to attend the
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at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. In 2013, he received the Alumnus of Notable Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota.


Government and military service

After becoming a naturalized
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, Mendis served as a military professor through the University of Maryland. He taught MBA/MPA and International Relations courses to American civil servants and defense forces in the NATO and Pacific Commands of the U.S. Department of Defense at every major in military bases in Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. For his outstanding commitment to teaching and service to Pentagon, Mendis received the University's most prestigious Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award. After completing his two teaching tours in Europe and Asia, Mendis joined the U.S. Department of State in 2000 as a foreign affairs officer to serve under Secretary Madeleine Albright in Washington, D.C. Under her direction, he served as the chairman of the U.S. Government Inter-agency Policy Working Group on Sustainable Development and the science & technology coordinator for the
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Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) under President Bill Clinton. When General Colin Powell came to the State Department, Mendis was appointed as the secretariat director of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (former U.S. Information Agency) and a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for ECA under President George W. Bush. Mendis was also elected by both State and USAID civilian and foreign service employees to serve as the vice chairman of Secretary Colin Powell's Open Forum. Later, Mendis was invited to participate as a consultant and economist in a multi-year science and national security project, headed by Ambassador Ronald Lehman, the Director of the Center for Global Security Research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Ambassador Lehman and Professor Mendis worked on a number of national security projects, including one involving the late
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, the science-fiction writer, who lived in Sri Lanka. Sir Clarke, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, wrote the foreword for Mendis' book on ''Glocalization.'' To transform the U.S. Government national security decision-making process in the 21st century, Patrick Mendis authored (with Leah Green) the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement case study for the
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to recommend improvements to the U.S. national security system. Mendis also served as an Uhuru 'Freedom' Fellow at the
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(IRI) and the governing board of the USDA Graduate School, an appointment by the George W. Bush administration. He serves on the editorial board of ''The Public Manager.''


Visiting professor to China, Russia, and SAS

Through the University of Maryland's faculty exchange program in summer 2000, Professor Mendis taught courses in American government, English, and culture to Chinese students at the Northwestern Polytechnic University in Xian. Ever since, he has been invited to give lectures at over 25 universities and academies in more than 20 provinces throughout China, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet. His appointments include distinguished visiting professorships at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, Nanjing University,
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in Shanghai, Wuhan University, and the Beijing Administrative College. The Center for International Strategic and Security Studies at the
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has appointed him as a consulting professor of international relations; Mendis currently serves as a distinguished visiting professor of international politics at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. For more than five years, Professor Mendis served as an international adviser to ''The Encyclopedia of Sri Lankan Diaspora'' at the
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and authored the chapter on the United States. While at the University of Minnesota, he also led the U.S. team selected to teach market economics and management to a group of former KGB officers, young Russian entrepreneurs, and faculty members at
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(previously known as Leningrad State University in the former Soviet Union). During the historic 1991 summer in the former Soviet Union, Professor Mendis also lectured at the
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and toured the
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and the Russian White House in Moscow. As a visiting professor of economics and public policy at the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea (SAS) program, Professor Mendis traveled to the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and Asia. Based on his first-hand observations of globalization and Americanization, he authored a series of articles, which later expanded into a book, the ''Human Side of Globalization,'' in which he explained his experience in meeting with
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of Cuba in 2004.


Philanthropic and global-giving activities

Alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Mendis raised fund for a number of tsunami projects in Sri Lanka in working with the Embassy of Sri Lanka and the Harvard University Club of Washington, D.C. He has established a range of tsunami scholarships, a micro-loan program, and a peace prize in Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Calvert Foundation in Maryland, USA. Proceeds from the sales of his previous two books — ''Human Side of Globalization'' and ''TRADE for PEACE'' — are donated to establish scholarships and a peace prize in Sri Lanka and a number of microloan projects throug
Kiva.org
in more than thirty countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Through his book ''Commercial Providence,'' Mendis contributed additional funds for his philanthropic activities. In honor and memory of his late mentor and friend, Honorable Edward A. Burdick, the annual Edward Burdick Legislative Award was established at the University of Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey School of Public Affairs. During his 2013 China book tour on ''Peaceful War,'' Mendis announced at the Beijing Office of the University of Minnesota that he will donate the book proceeds after tax to the Humphrey School. The University of Minnesota honored him with the Alumnus of Notable Achievements Award in 2013.


Bibliography


Books

*''Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a Pacific New World Order'' (2013) *''Commercial Providence: The Secret Destiny of the American Empire'' (2010) *''Trade for Peace'' (2009) *''Glocalization'' (2007)


Articles


How Washington's Asia Pivot and the TPP Can Benefit Sino-American Relations
" Australian National University's ''
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'', March 6, 2013. *"," Columbia University's ''
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'', Spring, 2013.
What Does the "Chinese Dream" Really Mean?
" Hong Kong's ''
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'', March 14, 2013.
The Sri Lankan Silk Road: The Potential War Between China and the United States
" Harvard University's ''
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'', November 30, 2012.
Chinese Renaissance Man is Touched by America’s Heartland
" Minnesota (USA) ''
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'', November 8, 2012. *"," Yale University's '' Yale Journal of International Affairs'', October 18, 2012.
China-bashing Rhetoric Like Romney's Counterproductive
" Minnesota (USA) ''
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'', October 23, 2012.
Government-wide Collaboration Boots National Trade
" United States '' Public Manager'', Spring 2010.


References


External links


The faculty webpage at George Mason UniversityThe official website of Patrick MendisThe micro loan program supported by Patrick Mendis
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China Central Television
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