Joshua Cooper Ramo

Joshua Ramo joined Kissinger Associates as a Managing Director in 2006, becoming the youngest partner in the history of the firm. He was promoted to Vice Chairman in November 2011. In this role, he advises some of the largest corporations in the world and governments at the ministerial level and above. He previously worked for the John Thornton Group at Goldman Sachs handling the advisory and banking business with a particular focus on China. Prior to that, he was at TIME Magazine, starting as the youngest-ever Senior Editor and later as Foreign Editor and Assistant Managing Editor. 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. Prior to joining Time, Joshua served as President and CEO of Time Warner's AthenaNow, where he led a team that produced digital journalism products, tools and technologies. He spent two years at Newsweek covering science and technology and led the team that put Newsweek online. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, and is an advisory board member of the Leaders Project and co-founder of the US-China Young Leaders Forum. During a 2001 sabbatical, he worked in South African AIDS hospices. Joshua also holds two U.S. national point-to-point air speed records and is an avid aerobatics pilot, about which he wrote the book No Visible Horizon . Joshua graduated from the University of Chicago in 1992 with a degree in Latin American Studies and holds a Masters in economics from NYU. He is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.