Dr. Metzl is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
He has served as Senior Advisor for Information Technology, Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, and Senior Coordinator for International Public Information at the U.S. Department of State. He also served as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs on the National Security Council at the White House and as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia from 1991 to 1993.
Dr. Metzl is the author of a book, Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, as well as numerous articles on such topics as diplomacy, human rights, Asian affairs, and information technology. He serves as adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches human rights law.
He holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University, a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.