Dr. Michael Jenkins is President of the Universal Peace Federation International (UPF) and President of The Washington Times Foundation. He is also Chairman of The Washington Times Holdings, the LLC that owns The Times’ news organization.

He has organized several well-received fact-finding trips of high-profile key American political and religious leaders to Korea and Japan that have met with the legislative, executive, intelligence and military leadership of those countries.

As President of the non-profit NGO, the Universal Peace Federation International, Dr. Jenkins has a decades-long involvement in organizing peace initiatives all over the world, particularly in Northeast Asia and the Middle East.

He was a key organizer of the Middle East Peace Initiative that engages in ongoing dialogue with stake holders in the Middle East from the spheres of faith and social leadership, and politics.

As the chief executive of UPF’s commitment to long-term cooperation in every sphere of human endeavor, he has served in a coordinating and advisory capacity for UPF’s project, the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace. The IAPP has been instrumental in bringing together current and former legislators from many nations for dialogue and conflict resolution on difficult geopolitical issues in the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, Europe and Africa.