John Mathiason is the Managing Director of Associates for International Management Services, as such he has developed a management training curriculum for the International Atomic Energy Agency, directed training courses on Internet policy and accessibility, directed a major evaluation of the work of the SSM Foundation of the Dominican Republic, organized and directed training in implementation of human rights instruments for persons with disabilities.

As part of his work, Mathiason serves as an adjunct professor of public administration at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, where has taught courses on the international public sector since 1980. He is involved in the development of a new program for training in excellence in international public management and has directed workshops on the subject at Korea University and Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea. He has done research on United Nations reform and on international regulation of the Internet. His main interest is in documenting the way in which international organizations deliver public services. He has presented papers on these issues to the International Studies Association and moderated a panel at the Harvard Conference on the Impact of the Internet on Communications Policy.

In a career starting in 1966 as a technical assistance expert, he was a career staff member of the United Nations Secretariat from 1971 through 1996, the last ten as Deputy Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women where he was responsible for managing substantive preparations for and support to the negotiation process during the Fourth World Conference on Women. He has an intimate knowledge of the process of formulating international plans of action and translating them into concrete plans and programs at both the national and international levels. He is completing a book on the origins of the substantive agreements reached at the Fourth World Conference on Women entitled The Long March to Beijing: the United Nations and the Women’s Revolution.

A U.S. national, born in 1942, he holds a B.A. summa cum laude from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.