Dan Glick­man is a for­mer vice pres­i­dent of the Aspen Insti­tute, a senior fel­low at the Bipar­ti­san Pol­i­cy Cen­ter, and a board mem­ber of the World Food Pro­gram USA. He served for eigh­teen years in the US House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives rep­re­sent­ing the 4th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict of Kansas, as the US Sec­re­tary of Agri­cul­ture from (1995−2001), and as chair­man of the Motion Pic­ture Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­ca, Inc. (2004−2010).