Joshua Cooper Ramo

Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director at Kissinger Associates, a strategic advisory firm. He is the youngest Managing Director in the history of the firm. Prior to entering the advisory business, Ramo was a journalist. He was the youngest Senior Editor and Foreign Editor in the history of TIME Magazine. ... (more)Among his nearly two-dozen time cover stories were the 1997 Man of the Year profile of Andy Grove and an award-winning profile of Kofi Annan. Ramo, a Mandarin speaker, divides his time between Beijing and New York City. The World Economic Forum has called him "one of China's leading foreign-born scholars." His papers have been widely distributed in China and abroad. He is the author of two other books, No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport and The Beijing Consensus.
About the book: Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction.
The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. In The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology, and the science of networks, he describes a new landscape of inherent unpredictability--and remarkable, wonderful possibility.

Los Ranchos native, NBC correspondent, former Time editor, and international relations expert Joshua Cooper Ramo discusses and signs his new book, The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It. Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director at Kissinger ... (more)Associates, a strategic advisory firm. He is the youngest Managing Director in the history of the firm. Prior to entering the advisory business, Ramo was a journalist. He was the youngest Senior Editor and Foreign Editor in the history of TIME Magazine. Among his nearly two-dozen time cover stories were the 1997 Man of the Year profile of Andy Grove and an award-winning profile of Kofi Annan. Ramo, a Mandarin speaker, divides his time between Beijing and New York City. The World Economic Forum has called him "one of China's leading foreign-born scholars." His papers have been widely distributed in China and abroad. He is the author of two other books, No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport and The Beijing Consensus.