Joshua Cooper Ramo

Managing Director at Kissinger Associates and author of The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo has been called one of Chinas leading foreign-born scholars by The World Economic Forum. Questioning conventional thinking, Ramo puts forth a radical new model for thriving in a world of unexpected change.

Prior to entering the strategic advisory business, Ramo was an award-winning journalist and the youngest-ever Foreign Editor of TIME magazine. Among his nearly two-dozen TIME cover stories were the 1997 Man of the Year profile of Andy Grove, an award-winning profile of Kofi Annan, and most recently, a report on unemployment in America.

In his most recent book, The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It (March 2009), Ramo argues that we are now in the midst of unprecedented change instead of relying on our traditional models and institutions of the past, we must adapt to these changes with innovative solutions and creative problem-solving ideas to face the global challenges ahead. Forbes called it a poignant, informed and optimistic book.

Trained as an economist, Ramo holds degrees from the University of Chicago and New York University. He spent two sabbaticals working at AIDS hospices in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, and co-founded the US-China Young Leaders Forum. An Aspen Institute Fellow and The World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia21 Leaders Program.

Ramo served as China analyst for NBC during the 2008 Olympic Games and has appeared on such programs as Meet the Press, The Today Show, and Charlie Rose.

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He has his finger on the pulse of of this moment. The next logical step is to realize that the sprawling urban form of our cities, is highly susceptible and vulnerable to what he calls in his book, the "Sandpile Effect." American cities are representations of a flawed system - proliferation without any objective - that needs enhancement or the lack of future energy, transportation and livability could pull America down from within.