Nancy Ramsey is a Futurist, Author and Entrepreneur. She consults with the Global Business Network as a futurist and co-authored, with Pamela McCorduck, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century, published by Addison-Wesley and in paperback by Time -Warner. She also co-authored, Nuclear Weapons Decision Making published by Macmillan. Ramsey is President of Morning Star Imports,, a small Tiburon, CA based company specializing in ethnic jewelry from the Middle East and North Africa. Ramsey is a popular speaker on a wide range of business and women’s issues.

Ramsey is the former Legislative Director to Senator John Kerry. In addition to directing the legislative staff, Ramsey advised the Senator on a number of issues including the federal budget, space and education. She is knowledgeable about the legislative process as well as the public and private sector.

In 2003 and 2004 Ramsey lived in The Hague, Netherlands with her husband, Rusty Schweickart, on an extended "Senior Year Abroad". Having returned to the San Francisco Bay area, Ramsey recently completed a Report with Pamela McCorduck for the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Colorado entitled, Where are the Women in IT? She has recently consulted with a number of IT start ups on the design of on line learning programs and worked with the National Academy of Engineering’s Task Force on Women and Diversity in Engineering. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. She has worked with a number of corporations and interest groups on diversity Scenarios and planning.

In wide ranging travels for her tribal and ethnic jewelry business Ramsey has journeyed to historic trading centers from Timbuktu to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey and The Golden Triangle. These trips also provide an opportunity to meet with women in business.

Before joining Senator Kerry’s staff in Washington DC Ramsey served as President of Ramsey Associates, a Washington based consulting firm specializing in arms control, international affairs and national security. Ramsey co-founded and directed the Committee for National Security, a non-profit, non-partisan national leadership group created in 1980 to encourage public debate on national security issues. Prior to her involvement with the Committee for National Security, Ramsey served as Director of Americans for SALT, a national citizen's group supporting the SALT II Treaty. She also served as Legislative Director for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Assistant to the Director of the National Welfare Rights Organization, Staff Assistant to the Governor of Massachusetts and with the Commonwealth Service Corps, organizing community action programs in that state.

Ms. Ramsey has served on a number of boards of directors including the Women's Campaign Fund, the National Peace Academy Campaign, and Peace Links International. She has also been a contributor to In the Public Interest. In 1984 she served as a Distinguished Resource Fellow at the Center for Conflict Resolution at George Mason University.

Nancy Ramsey is a native of West Hartford, Connecticut. She was an American Field Service exchange student to Heilbronn, Germany. Ramsey is a graduate of Colby College and received a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago.

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