Brian Goldsmith is a Project Manager at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and directs a study on foreign elections and American public diplomacy.

Goldsmith has worked at the intersection of politics, journalism, and international relations. He founded and led a monthly television program that looked at domestic and foreign politics from a young person’s perspective—and hosted prominent journalists, members of Congress, and scholars as guests. His work experience includes time in the Research and Press operations of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2000 campaign, as an assistant producer on Jeff Greenfield’s CNN interview program Greenfield at Large, as a political staffer to House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, and as a political and foreign affairs researcher/writer for NBC’s Today show.

While at Harvard College (from which he graduated in 2005), Goldsmith founded This Week In Politics, a nonpartisan political roundtable that brought students, scholars, and journalists together to discuss the news. He served as chair of the Fellows Committee at the Institute of Politics, worked as a columnist, Editorial Editor, and food writer at The Harvard Crimson, and taught civics class at a Boston-area public school. He has also worked as research assistant to Professor Roger Porter, and as IOP liaison to former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, political strategists Mike Murphy and David Morehouse, and AP chief political reporter Ron Fournier.