Joshua Cooper Ramo
Author, China scholar and advisor
Joshua Cooper Ramo is a former Time magazine editor and business advisor who writes about China and global change. He wrote The Seventh Sense.
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Born 1968 in Durham, United States
About Joshua Cooper Ramo
Joshua Cooper Ramo began his career as a journalist. No one younger has been senior editor and foreign editor at Time magazine, and he wrote more than 20 cover stories there. He later moved into advisory work and held a senior leadership role at Kissinger Associates, the firm of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He has also led Sornay, an investment and advisory firm. Ramo speaks Mandarin and moved to Beijing in 2002, living there for a decade. The World Economic Forum has called him one of China's leading foreign-born scholars, and he is known for his paper "The Beijing Consensus". He was an NBC analyst for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, work that earned him an Emmy and a Peabody award. His books include No Visible Horizon, about his life as a competitive aerobatic pilot, plus The Age of the Unthinkable and The Seventh Sense, both of which were best-sellers in the New York Times rankings. He also founded Peace Machines, a Zurich-based effort to use technology against problems that push the world toward conflict. Ramo grew up in New Mexico and studied at the University of Chicago and New York University.