1993, BA in English, Yale; 1997, MA in Law, Oxford; 1997, LLM in Law, New York University. Former speechwriter for US Ambassador Morris B. Abram, Geneva, Switzerland; then spent time as a foreign correspondent and studied law in England and New York before joining Foreign Affairs magazine as a junior editor; then moved to Newsweek as Deputy Editor, international edition. Then political risk consultant. 2011, returned to Foreign Affairs as Managing Editor. Since September 2017, Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy magazine. Vice-Chairman, Halifax International Security Forum. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Fellow, New York Institute of Humanities. Author of “The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline”. 2016 TED Talk, which was drawn from the book, has been viewed almost a million times. Has written for Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Newsweek, on subjects including international affairs, books, municipal politics, and food. Has interviewed world leaders, including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Japan’s Shinzo Abe, Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto, Indonesia’s Joko Widodo, and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame. Co-Editor, “The U.S. vs. al Qaeda”" (2011), "Iran and the Bomb” (2012), “The Clash of Ideas” (2012).