Jared Cohen

Jared Cohen is director of Google Ideas and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, With Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman and former CEO of Google, he co-authored The New York Times bestselling book, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations, and Businesses. Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business. Previously, he served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff in the Policy Design Division of the Secretary of State and as a close adviser to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. He was also named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2013. Jared Cohen has conducted extensive research in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and throughout Africa. As part of his research, he interviewed members of Al-Qaeda, Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Taliban. He is the author of two books: Children of Jihad and One Hundred Days of Silence, And co-authored with Eric Schmidt The Digital Disruption: Connectivity and the Proliferation of Power Connectivity and the Diffusion of Power, which appeared in the journal Foreign Affairs only a few months before the Arab Spring began. Published in 2013, The New Digital Age presents a vision of an increasingly connected world and answers the question of how everything in the physical world will change over the next decade as five billion new users enter the digital world. Cohen has also published other works, For example, Diverting the Radicalization Track in Policy Review, Iran's de facto Opposition in SAIS Review: Iran's Post-Revolutionary youth Iran#39; s De Facto Opposition: Youth in Post-revolutionary Iran and Hoover Digest Passive Revolution: Dead or Alive Passive Revolution: Is Political Resistance Dead or Alive in Iran. In 2011, Vanity Fair named Cohen a member of The Next Establishment, The Washington Post, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The s Kennedy School of Government named him Top American Leaders; Foreign Policy lists him as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. He was named Top 30 Under 30 by the Christian Science Monitor; 20 Brazen Young Professionals to Watch; 20 Brazen Young Professionals to watch; He was also named one of the Huffington Post's 100 Game Changers and Devex's 40 Under 40. He was also credited with intervening in Iran's Green Revolution. s Green Revolution and S Green Revolution won the 2010 and 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovation Awards for writing the most influential articles of the year. He was twice awarded the Secretary of State's Meritorious Honor Award, presented by Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Currently, Jared Cohen is the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. s Director, NCTC Advisory Board Director#39; s Advisory Board. He holds a BA from Stanford University and studied International Relations at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Master of Philosophy degree MPhil.