Joshua Cooper Ramo

China Expert Author, The Age of the Unthinkable

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.

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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, 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.”

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. “Ramo has written a book that combines historic sweep and incisive detail,” said Walter Isaacson. “The Seventh Sense is a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master.”

Trained as an economist, Ramo was a technology editor at TIME and the youngest foreign editor in the magazine’s history. In addition to more than 20 TIME cover stories, Fortune published “Globalism Goes Backward,” Ramo’s article on the need for companies and countries to adapt to the rise of the “inside economy.”

In The Age of the Unthinkable, Ramo argues that economic and technological shifts have ushered in an era of unprecedented change and unintended consequences. Forbes called it “a poignant, informed and optimistic book,” and Newsweek described it as “a call to arms for smarter management of this increasingly complex world.”

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 US‐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, Morning Joe, and Fareed Zakaria GPS.

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