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Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director at Kissinger Associates, a strategic advisory firm. He is the youngest Managing Director in the history of the firm. Prior to entering the advisory business, Ramo was a journalist. He was the youngest Senior Editor and Foreign Editor in the history of TIME Magazine. Among his nearly two-dozen time cover stories were the 1997 Man of the Year profile of Andy Grove and an award-winning profile of Kofi Annan.

Ramo, a Mandarin speaker, divides his time between Beijing and New York City. The World Economic Forum has called him “one of China’s leading foreign-born scholars.” His papers have been widely distributed in China and abroad.

Trained as an economist, Ramo was raised in Los Ranchos, New Mexico. He has been, among other things, a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Asia21 Leaders Program, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and Global Leaders for Tomorrow, an advisory board member of the Leaders Project and co‐founder of the US‐China Young Leaders Forum. He has spent two sabbaticals working at AIDS hospices in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. An avid pilot, Ramo has written a book, No Visible Horizon, about his experiences as a competitive aerobatic pilot. Ramo holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and a masters degree from New York University. His forthcoming book of geo-strategy will be published in seven languages in 2009.

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