Vice Chairman and Co-CEO, Kissinger Associates
Joshua Cooper Ramo is Vice Chairman and Co-CEO of global advisory firm Kissinger Associates and a member of the boards of directors of Starbucks and FedEx. His clients include some of the largest companies and investors in the world. The author of two bestsellers, The Age of the Unthinkable and The Seventh Sense, he puts forth a radical model for thriving in a world of connectivity and uncertainty.
A Mandarin speaker who divides his time between Beijing and New York, Mr. Ramo has spent over a decade witnessing, firsthand, the remarkable rise of a superpower. He understands China in all of its dynamism and complexity. His papers on China’s development, including “The Beijing Consensus” and “Brand China,” have been widely distributed in China and abroad. The World Economic Forum called him “one of China’s leading foreign-born scholars.”
Mr. Ramo’s 2016 New York Times bestseller, The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune and Survival in the Age of Networks, explores what all the successful figures of this age see and feel: the disruptive force of networks in trade, politics, DNA, finance, the Internet and more. He introduces a new way of seeing the world, one which is based on his years advising generals, CEOs and politicians.
Trained as an economist, Mr. Ramo was a technology editor at TIME and the youngest foreign editor in the magazine’s history.
Mr. Ramo holds degrees from the University of Chicago and NYU. He has been a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a founder of the U.S.‐China Young Leaders Forum. He was the China analyst for NBC during the 2008 Olympic Games and has appeared on such programs as Meet the Press, Fareed Zakaria GPS and Charlie Rose.
