Adam Clayton Powell III is President of the Public Diplomacy Council and Director of the USC Center on Communication Leadership and Policy's Washington Programs and a CPD Faculty Fellow. Powell previously served as director of the USC Integrated Media Systems Center, the National Science Foundation’s Research Center for multimedia research. He is a University Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, housed in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Powell has written extensively about technology, media and international issues for publications ranging from The New York Times and Wired to USC’s Online Journalism Review. He has won numerous awards, including the 1999 World Technology Award for Media and Journalism, sponsored by The Economist, and the Overseas Press Club Award for international reporting for a series of broadcasts he produced on Iran.