Chuck Montgomery, a Senior Managing Attorney for MidAmerican Energy Company (a Berkshire Hathaway company), has served as a board member for: V.O.I.C.E.S. (Hmong refugee resettlement), the Iowa Council for International Understanding, the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, and PYXERA Global. This service has fired Chuck’s passion for citizen diplomacy and led to involvement in projects like the Young Arab Business Fellows program, service on a State Department fact-finding mission to Iraq, ongoing service on the U.S.-Pakistan Leadership Forum, and advocacy for citizen diplomacy at the U.N.’s Alliance of Civilizations conference in Doha.
In 2012, Xi Jingping, then Vice President of China, paid a return visit to the small town of Muscatine, Iowa. Xi reflected on his earlier visit, observing: “You were the ...
