Jessica Tuchman Mathews, a columnist with The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, will present the 1996 Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture at Cornell on Tuesday, April 9, at 5 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.

In a lecture titled "New Actors in a New World Order," Mathews will discuss the increasing role of nongovernmental entities in shaping public policies relating to human rights, business and the environment, as national governments' influence diminishes. It is free and open to the public.

After receiving her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1967 and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1973, both in molecular biology, Mathews went to Washington, D.C., in 1973 as a Congressional Science Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She then served as a staff member of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and, in 1975-76, was national issues director for the presidential campaign of U.S. Rep. Morris Udall (D-Ariz.).

From 1977 to 1979, Mathews directed the Office of Global Issues for the National Security Council. She joined the Post in 1980, where she covered such topics as energy, environment, science, technology and health until 1982. Her Post column, which she began in 1991, appears nationwide and in the International Herald Tribune. She also has served as deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs and as vice president of the World Resources Institute.

Mathews has written for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs and other scientific and foreign policy journals. She is co- editor of The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years and coauthor and editor of Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership. She was the 1991 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecturer at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The Bartels World Affairs Fellowship was established in 1984 by Cornell alumni Henry and Nancy Bartels, both from the class of 1948, to broaden student understanding of international problems. Past Bartels Fellows have included Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria's former head of state (1992), who is now in a Nigerian prison; the Dalai Lama of Tibet (1991); and Pierre Salinger, ABC News international correspondent (1987).