Zach P. Messitte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Brazilian-born political scientist
Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1968
Place of Birth: São Paulo, Brazil
Profession: political scientist
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Zach P. Messitte
- Zachariah Paulo Messitte (born June 24, 1968) is a political scientist, commentator, author and the 13th President of Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin.Messitte was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil while his parents were serving in the Peace Corps.
- He grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and is a graduate of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.
- He graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1990, with a B.A.
- in American history and Italian language.
- He established two Italian awards at Bowdoin in 2010.
- Messitte received a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in politics from New York University.He was appointed to the political science faculty and named director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at St.
- Mary's College of Maryland in 2002.
- In 2007, he was named Vice Provost for International Programs and awarded the William J.
- Crowe Chair in Geopolitics at the University of Oklahoma.
- He later became the first Dean of the University of Oklahoma College of International Studies.Former CIA Director George Tenet gave the keynote address at Messitte's inauguration as President of Ripon College on Sep.
- 29, 2012.He has written numerous academic articles as well as guest columns for The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Baltimore Sun and other top 20 daily newspapers.
- Messitte is the co-editor of Buon Giorno, Arezzo: A Postcard from Tuscany and Understanding the Global Community, and is the co-author of Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump's America.
- Prior to his career in academia, Messitte worked as a researcher-producer at CNN for national correspondent Judy Woodruff, as a press spokesman for the U.S.
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and as a public information officer for the United Nations in New York and in Vienna, Austria, where he helped architect the instrumental Basketball Without Borders cultural program with the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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