Mr. Rowson is President of the Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD). 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. Previously, he was Director of Policy and Planning, Free Europe, Inc. (Radio Free Europe) in New York and Director of Research and Analysis for East Europe of Radio Free Europe in Munich, for six years. His career in "international political communications" began with twelve years at the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) as Director of the World Affairs Council of Rhode Island, as FPA's Regional Director in the Northeast and as Director of Development. He holds a professional degree (M.I.A) from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, in Political Science. He served in the U.S. Navy, 1944-47.