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Policy Studies Organization

George Mason University

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President, Policy Studies Organization, Washington, D.C. Adjunct Professor, George
Mason University. Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Research and
publications in social capital, secret societies, freemasonry and fraternalism, scholarly
publishing, the Middle East and Gulf, tertiary education, symbology and ritology, Rite of
Memphis-Misraim, distance learning, defining of policy studies. 

As President of the Policy Studies Organization, Dr. Rich is responsible for appointing
the editors of twelve journals and of book series published for the PSO by
Wiley-Blackwell, Berkeley Electronic Press, Rowland & Littlefield, and Global
Information Company. The journals and their editorial offices include Policy and Internet
(University of Oxford), Review of Policy Research (Ryerson University, Toronto), Digest
of Middle East Studies (University of Wisconsin), Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public
Policy (Pacific Disaster Center, University of Hawaii), Policy Studies Journal
(University of Colorado, Denver), Politics & Policy (Universidad IberoAmericana,
Mexico City), Latin American Policy (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City), Asian
Politics & Policy (Asian Center, University of the Philippines), World Medical and
Health Policy (George Mason University), Poverty & Public Policy (University of
Missouri, Kansas City), Proceedings of the PSO (PSO Headquarters, Washington DC). 

The PSO publishes The Yearbook of Policy Studies (University of Oklahoma), book series on
Public Policy, The Middle East and China (University of San Francisco), and hosts the
Dupont Summit on Science & Technology Policy - an annual December conference in
Washington DC at the Carnegie Institution, the Middle East Dialogue at the Washington
Club each February, practitioner workshops at annual meetings of APSA, Westminster style
parliamentary debates in cooperation with Tulane University, and as sponsor with Oxford
University's Internet Institute of biannual internet policy world conference. 

The Policy Studies Organization includes more than 3600 universities and institutions as
well as individuals in more than 93 countries. From its headquarters in an historic house
near Dupont Circle in Washington, home of the families of President James Garfield and
the labor leader Samuel Gompers, the society organizes conferences, seminars, the
publication of journals and books, and an increasing Internet presence. The PSO offices
have a notable antiquarian collection relating to its history and the Dupont Circle area.
Interns are placed with PSO by Cornell, Penn State, and the Washington Center; PSO
visiting professors are provided office space. 

Life Governor, Harris College, University of Oxford. Oxford Preservation Trust (life).
Past International President, Phi Beta Delta. Grand Chancellor, Phi Sigma Omega.
Honourable Company of Freemen of the City of London of North America. Clubs in D.C.:
Diplomatic and Consular, W. National Democratic, Amer.News., Arts, Washington,
University, Harvard, Stanford, Philosophical, Lincoln, Print, Rare Book. Middle East
Institute. Life, National Capital Political Science Association. 

Consultant Ministry Higher Education, Saudi Arabia, 1979-81; Faculty King Saud
University, Saudi Arabia, 1979-81; Head of Supervisory Development, Emirate of Qatar,
1981-1993. Adviser, American Embassies, Oman and Qatar, Abu Dhabi Oil Company of Japan.;
Certificate of Appreciation, U.S. Department of State, 1990; Research Fellow University
Western Australia, Perth, 1990-93, Member Univ. Council, 1991-93. Government House,
Battye and Westralian Foundations, Perth, life member. Professor of International
Relations, University of the Americas, Mexico, 1993-2008. 

Kinsmen Scholar, Tonbridge School, England. Jr. Common Room Chr., Dunster House, Harvard
College. AB cum laude, EDM, Harvard. PhD, University of Western Australia. Harvard
Mountaineering Club (life). Secy. Harvard Liberal Union. 

Board Directors National Intelligence Study Center, 1998-2003; Academy Council UN
Systems, 1998-2001; Council European Studies, 2001-2002; Research Associate Federal
Reserve Bank, Dallas, 1995—; Huntington lecturer and visiting professor Libr.Congress,
2000. Advisory Board, Roosevelt Institution, Hyde Park, 2006-. Berne Station Award. 

Chair, Seymour Martin Lipset Library Committee, American Political Science Association;
Wildawsky,Laswell Award Comms. United States Commission on Military History, 1996-2004. 

Royal Photographic Society (life). Fellow: Royal Historical Society, Royal Society of
Arts, Royal Society West Australia, Royal Numismatic Society, Royal Anthropological
Institute, Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong), Royal Geog. Society. Scipio. Life: Fellow,
Huguenot Society, London; The Siam Society Under Royal Patronage (Bangkok). 

St. John's Lodge, Boston. 32nd Degree, Scottish Rite, Northern Jurisdiction. 33rd
Degree, Scottish Rite, Supreme Council, Northern Mexico. Capitular Rite. Cryptic Rite.
Knight of the Mediterranean Pass. Knight Malta. Knight Templar. Order of the Eastern
Star. Cameron Medal for Social Science Research. James Award for Research, Grand Lodge of
Texas. Fellow, Grand Lodge of California. Jewels of the Craft Circle. Order of Kt.Masons
(The Green Degrees). Life Brother, Southern California, Arizona, Illinois Lodges of
Research. Life Fellow, Scottish Rite Research Society. Academic Committee, International
Congress on the History of Freemasonry, Grand Lodge of Scotland, 2006-09. 

Life: Philateles, Phylaxis, Grand College of Rites. Knights of Pythias, National Grange
(Potomac No.1), Loyal Orange Institution, Shrine. American Numismatic Society. Life:
Bostonian Society, Pilgrim Society, New England Historic and Genealogical Society,
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, The Sutton Hoo Society. 

Unitarian: All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington. South Place Ethical Society, London
(life). Unitarian Historical Society,Britain (life). 

American Library Association. Life: Bibliographical Society (London), Bibliographical
Society (New York), British Museum Society. Library Company of Philadelphia. Development
Committee, Foreign Languages Group, Piayta Presei Libre,Romania. 

Life: Society of Architectural Historians, Am. Numismatic Association, Am. Numismatic
Society (New York), Am. Association for the Advancement of Science, Am. Hist.
Association, Archeological Institute Am., The Company of Military Historians, National
Council Geographic Education, Institute Advanced Philosophical Research, Philosophical
Society Washington, Academy of Political Science (New York), Am. Academy of Political and
Social Science, Medieval Academy of Am., Naval Historical Fdn., Lincoln Group
(Washington). A.M. Huntington Society (Washington). 

California Institute International Studies(vice president 1994—2000), Am. Culture
Association (chairman endowment committee 1999—2003), Chair, Endow. Comm., Southern
Political Science Association, 2007 --. The Georgian Group (life). South American
Explorers Club (Quito). Auch.Boswell Soc. Clan Mackenzie. 

Life: Society of Historians of American Foreign Affairs, Organization of American
Historians, American Historical Association, South Place Ethical Society (London),
Bermuda Historical Society, Am.Inst.History of Pharmacy. The London Society, The China
Society (London), Fairbridge Drake Soc., National Trust (Britain), Oxford Preservation
Trust, Ecclesiological Society-Cambridge Camden Society. 

Geog. Society India, College Preceptors, Congress of Americas. (President 1995—2006),
Tangier Am. Legation Society, Sutton Ho Society (life), Royal Society Lit., Stanford
Faculty Club, Explorers Club Lima, Phi Sigma Alpha, Pi Lambda Theta, Delta Phi Epsilon.
Investigador Nacional Nivel II, El Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Mexico. R.
Presidential Order of Merit (Star & Medal). Faculty Research Fellow, Department of
Foreign Affairs, Canada, 1996. 

Collageist and ceramist, usually exhibits at winter and summer shows of Arts Club of
Washington (life m., American Art Pottery Association.) 

Books Include Invasions of the Gulf, 3rd Ed., Lexington Press, 2009. Stanford Patriarchs,
Authors Choice Press, New York, 2009. Elixir of Empire, Chains of Empire, Regency Press
(London). 

Contributor: Freemasonry on Both Sides of the Atlantic, Columbia University Press, 2002.
Benefits Bestowed, Manchester University Press, 1988. Secret Texts, ALM Press, New York,
1995. Education in Qatar, Doha, University of Qatar, 1983. Cyberspace, Dowling Press,
Sydney, 1992. Editor, Allborough Press, Cambridge, Classics Series: Iraq &
Imperialism, Soldier in Kurdistan, Voyage in the Gulf, Arab War Lords & Iraqi Star
Gazers, Wartime in Baghdad. (See Whittakers). 

Contributor encyclopaedia articles incl. articles on prosopography,Roberto Calvi, Umberto
Eco, Benedetto Croce, Arnold Toynbee, British Royal Family, Class in the UK, Education in
Great Britain, Suez Crisis, Terrorism, Teilhard de Chardin, T.S.Eliot, William Golding,
Europe & the Israeli/Palestinian Question, Gulf War & Europe.