Schmidt retired from his position as Senior Educator at the World Bank in 1993. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University, earned a M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His career has included thirteen years as a parish priest in the Episcopal Church serving in Latin America, Africa and the USA. He spent ten years in state government in the USA serving as an aide to the Governor of the State of Rhode Island and as the state's Commissioner of Education. In addition to the ten years spent at the World Bank, he has work...