Gary Rosen
Chief External Affairs Officer
Gary Rosen is the John Templeton Foundation's primary spokesman and "ambassador" to the world of opinion-makers. As the head of our communications team, he directs a global effort to raise awareness of the Foundation's role as a philanthropic catalyst for research on the "big questions" of science and human meaning. He oversees the Foundation's strategic planning for use of the Internet, traditional media, in-house publications, conferences, and other events.
Before joining the Foundation, Gary spent more than a decade as an editor at Commentary, one of the country's leading intellectual journals. His articles for Commentary covered a range of subjects, from constitutional law and bioethics to Hollywood blockbusters and American foreign policy. Gary regularly contributes to the top opinion forums in the country, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He has appeared often on radio and TV, including MSNBC, Fox News, the BBC, C-SPAN, The History Channel and The Colbert Report. He was previously the senior editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal and a speechwriter for Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey.
Gary is the author of American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding (1999) and the editor of The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq (2005). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a graduate of Stanford University, he received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1996.
Gary lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and two sons and is an unabashed enthusiast for fine food and wine.
