Jared Cohen

• Director, Google Ideas
  Google

BA, Stanford University; MPhil in International Relations, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University. Former: Member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff; Adviser to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. With Google: currently Director, Google Ideas, a think/do tank that explores how technology can enable people to confront threats in the face of conflict, instability or repression. It connects users, experts and engineers to research and seed new technology-driven initiatives. It was founded on the principle that the next five billion to come online will face far greater human challenges than the first two billion. Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. Member, Director's Advisory Board, National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Co-Author, NYTimes Bestseller, The New Digital Age. Author, Children of Jihad, One Hundred Days of Silence. Member, 2013 TIME 100 list.