SIMI VALLEY : Reagan Center Taps Scholar as Director
John J. Midgley, a scholar at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has been named the first executive director of the Ronald Reagan Center for Public Affairs.
The center’s offices are on the grounds of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley, but it is funded privately by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
Midgley’s appointment was announced Monday by the former president and Lodwrick M. Cook, chairman of the Reagan foundation.
Midgley teaches leadership and management courses at Carnegie-Mellon’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.
Foundation officials said the new executive director “will lead the Reagan Center’s efforts to develop innovative approaches to public policy issues of national and international importance, drawing on the principles and legacy of Ronald Reagan.”
Midgley is a West Point graduate. He earned a master’s degree at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a doctorate in political science at MIT.
In a statement, Cook predicted that Midgley “will help us build the Ronald Reagan Center for Public Affairs into a platform for important public policy debates among world leaders from business, government, media and academia.”
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