Claremont, CA—The Claremont Institute is pleased to congratulate former President Michael Pack in his new role as head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), where he will work to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy."
Among the news organizations under USAGM is the influential Voice of America (VOA), now in its seventy-fifth year of providing news about the United States to the world. VOA broadcasts in 47 languages to a weekly global audience of nearly 300 million.
Pack, who helmed the Claremont Institute from 2015-2017, promises to combat propaganda and disinformation from America's adversaries by "making clear to the world the ideals that inspire America."
“USAGM has been in serious need of principled and determined leadership for years," said current Claremont Institute President Ryan P. Williams. "Michael Pack has the experience and the grit to restore USAGM and the vital Voice of America to prestige and effectiveness. His appointment and confirmation couldn’t come at a more urgent time, as America’s enemies continue to sow disinformation to their subject populations and beyond their borders.”
Prior to the Claremont Institute, Pack worked as Director of WorldNet under President George H.W. Bush, where he reported to the Director of the U.S. Information Agency and the Director of VOA. He was also a Senior Vice President with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Between stints in public service, Pack founded and ran a film company, Manifold Productions, producing over 15 documentaries that have aired on PBS. His latest film, Created Equal, is a biography of Justice Clarence Thomas where, for the first time, Justice Thomas tells his life’s story, looking directly at the camera, speaking frankly to the audience.
Since its founding in 1979, the Claremont Institute’s mission has been to “restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.” Claremont serves this mission in part through its four annual fellowship programs—Publius, Lincoln, John Marshall, and Speechwriters—which engage the most promising young thinkers and statesmen by examining the historical arc leading from the American Founding to today’s progressivism. Alumni of these prestigious programs today total more than 700, with many now in prominent positions in government, academia, and journalism. Claremont also provides the most thoughtful intellectual debate on the right through its flagship publication the Claremont Review of Books, a journal of political thought and statesmanship, and The American Mind, an online publication examining the ideas that drive American political life. Finally, we bring the natural law constitutionalism of the Founding to America’s courts through our Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.
