John Shattuck

John Shattuck is Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. From 1998 to 2000 he served as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and from 1993 to 1998 as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Before entering government service, Shattuck was at Harvard, where he was Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs from 1984 to 1993, Lecturer at the Harvard Law School, and Research Associate at the Kennedy School of Government. Shattuck's career began at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he was Executive Director of the ACLU Washington office and national staff counsel from 1971 to 1984. He appears frequently in the U.S. and international media and as a speaker and commentator on human rights and international security. He is the author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response (Harvard University Press), Rights of Privacy (National Textbook Company) and many articles on international affairs, national security, foreign policy, human rights, civil liberties, higher education and public service. Shattuck was elected in 2007 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been awarded honorary degrees by Kenyon College, the University of Rhode Island, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and the University of Western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. He is a graduate of Yale College, Cambridge University and Yale Law School.