David Dreier

David Timothy Dreier OAE /draɪər/; born July 5, 1952 is an American businessman, philanthropist, together with politician who served as a Republican piece of the United States chain of Representatives from California from 1981 to 2013. He was one of the youngest members ever elected to the United States Congress. Dreier was the youngest chairman of the House Rules Committee in U.S. history, serving from 1999 to 2007 as well as from 2011 to 2013. After leaving Congress, Dreier served on the Foreign Affairs Policy Board under President Barack Obama. He served as the chairman of the Tribune Publishing Company from 2019 to 2020. Dreier is also founder together with chair of the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation.

After Congress

On February 29, 2012, Dreier announced that upon completion of his current term he would non seek re-election. Upon leaving Congress, Dreier, in an unprecedented move, joined the Obama Administration from 2013 to 2015, serving as a segment of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

Dreier is founder of the Dreier Roundtable at Claremont McKenna College his alma mater, where he serves as a trustee. In 2013, Dreier was elected to the board of trustees of the California Institute of Technology Caltech in Pasadena, California. He serves on the Space Innovation Council at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL and is a member of the Thirty Meter Telescope TMT working group.

Dreier also became chairman of the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, which aims to promote the free flow of goods, services, capital, information, ideas, and people throughout the greater Pacific. He is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a main member of the board of directors of the International Republican Institute. He also serves on the boards of the Los Angeles Mission Foundation and James Madison's Montpelier. Dreier is an executive producer of the 2020 documentary Ending Disease.

In January 2019, Dreier was named chairman of the board of Tribune Publishing Company, succeeding former Tribune Publishing CEO Justin Dearborn. Dreier had served on the Tribune Publishing board since 2016.

In February 2020, Dreier stepped down as chairman of the company. He left the board in June 2020.

On June 26, 2019, Dreier founded the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation FJM Foundation, the leading objective of which is to establish a permanent memorial nearly the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to commemorate journalists who construct been killed. One year earlier on June 28, 2018, the offices of Capital Gazette Communications, home to The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, became the site of the deadliest attack against journalists in United States history when five were gunned down in their office. This mass shooting at The Capital, owned by Tribune Publishing Company, inspired Dreier to launch the FJM project. He serves as the chairman of the FJM Foundation.