Mr. Rowson, President Emeritus of the Council for a Community of Democracies, is Vice President of the Board of Directors. He was appointed President/CEO of CCD in March 2003 and retired in October 2008. He is on the Executive Committee of the International Centre for Democratic Transition, which he helped found in Budapest in 2004-5. Formerly, he was in international publishing for 25 years, serving successively as President of Praeger Publishers and of Pergamon Press (both in New York) and as Director of Duke University Press, American University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press. He was Director of Policy and Planning, Free Europe, Inc. (Radio Free Europe) in New York for six years (1962-69) and served as Director of Research and Analysis for East Europe while in Munich (1963-64). His experience in the field of "international political communication" began in 1950 with twelve years at the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) as Director of the World Affairs Council of Rhode Island and as FPA's Northeast Regional Director helping launch its nationwide "Great Decisions" program. He holds a professional degree (M.I.A.) from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, in Political Science and attended Pomona College prior to serving in the U.S. Navy, 1944-47.