Sheldon Himelfarb
Associate Vice President
Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding
Center of Innovation for Science, Technology and Peacebuilding
Media and Conflict | Conflict Management | Civil Society | U.S. Foreign Policy | Technology and Peacebuilding
Phone: (202) 429-4773
E-mail: shimelfarb@usip.org
Sheldon Himelfarb joined USIP in June 2008 from The Corporate Executive Board, where he was on the Technology Practice Leadership Team, working with chief information officers on technology, business and management strategy. Prior to this he served as foreign policy adviser to a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the head of North American Documentary Development for Yorkshire TV, and the CEO/Executive Producer for Common Ground Productions, the media division of Search for Common Ground. He is an award-winning filmmaker, former commentator for National Public Radio (Sunday Morning Edition) and author of numerous articles on politics, popular culture and media.
Sheldon holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University and a B. A. in Political Science from John Hopkins University. He has held visiting or guest scholar positions at the Brookings Institution, Harvard University and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Partial List of Productions:
- Four Hours in My Lai (PBS, 1989)
- A Heart Beat Away (A&E networks, 1991)
- Follow the Flag (A&E networks, 1993)
- From Fury to Forgiveness (Discovery Channel, 1994)
- Africa: Search for Common Ground (Common Ground Productions, 13-part TV and radio series for South African broadcasting, 1998)
- Nashe Maalo drama series (Common Ground Productions and Sesame Workshop for Macedonian TV, 2000)
