Karl Zinsmeister

Karl Zinsmeister
Director of the Domestic Policy Council
In office May 24, 2006 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Deputy	Jess Sharp
Preceded by	Claude Allen
Succeeded by	Melody Barnes
Personal details
Born	1959 (age 57–58) Baldwinsville, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Education	Yale University (BA)
Website	Official website

Karl Zinsmeister is an American journalist and researcher. From 2006 to 2009, he served in the White House as President George W. Bush's chief domestic policy adviser, and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. He is currently an executive at The Philanthropy Roundtable, and a leading national authority on philanthropy and the power of private giving and voluntary action to solve public problems.

Zinsmeister is a graduate of Yale University where he studied history and was a member of Manuscript Society. He also spent time as a special student at Trinity College, Dublin, in Ireland. He won college rowing championships in both the U.S. and Ireland.

His first job in Washington was as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat. He was later named DeWitt Wallace Fellow, and eventually appointed to the J.B. Fuqua Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, where over three decades he researched a range of topics extending from social welfare and demographics to economics and cultural trends.

Zinsmeister's writing has been published in periodicals ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to Real Clear Politics and the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal. He has been an adviser to many research and policy groups, and has testified before Congress and Presidential commissions on topics like family policy, daycare, farm subsidies, and the Iraq war. He has made many appearances on television and radio.

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