James K. Glassman

James Kenneth Glassman (born January 1, 1947) is the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, a public policy development institution focused on creating independent, non-partisan solutions to America's most pressing public policy problems through the principles that guided President George W. Bush and his wife Laura in public life. The George W. Bush Institute is based within the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Before taking up this position in 2009, he was a Washington-based public service broadcasting manager. He has also worked as a journalist, magazine publisher and business writer, and in the field of economic policy development. He is perhaps best known for co-writing the book Dow 36,000 (published 1999), in which he predicted that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would approximately triple in value to 36,000 points by early 2005.

For the 2016 presidential election, Glassman endorsed Hillary Clinton.

Glassman was born into a Jewish family in Washington, D.C. He attended Sidwell Friends School, in Washington. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in government in 1969. He is married to Beth Ourisman Glassman and has two children, two stepchildren, and three grandchildren. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and Falls Village, Connecticut.

Glassman began his career as a journalist and publisher.

While a student at Harvard, he served as managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. After graduation, he took a job as a Sunday writer for the Boston Herald Traveler. In 1971, he became editor and publisher of The Advocate of Provincetown, Mass..

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