# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-j-bennet
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:05:17.732Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-j-bennet"
name: "Douglas J. Bennet"
slug: "douglas-j-bennet"
description: "Douglas Joseph Bennet Jr. was an American political official and college president. He was the fifteenth president of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut, from 1995 to 2007. Before that, he served as assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs in the Clinton administration (1993–95) and assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the Carter administration (1977–79), was the president and CEO of National Public Radio (1983–93), and ran the United States Agency for International Development under President Carter (1979–81)."
tagline: "American academic administrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Douglas_J._Bennet%2C_State_1993-04-_Iss_365_(IA_sim_state-magazine_1993-04_365)_(page_13_crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1938-07-23"
deathDate: "2018-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.595397333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_J._Bennet"
    title: "Douglas J. Bennet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5301639"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations