Joshua Cooper Ramo
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Joshua Cooper Ramo was a former senior editor and foreign editor of Time magazine and later Managing Director at Kissinger Associates
, the consulting firm of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Ramo was raised in Los Ranchos, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande River. He began flying in his late teens and wrote a book about his experiences as a competitive aerobatic pilot.
He joined Time in 1996 as the youngest senior editor in the magazine's history and went on to become its foreign editor and assistant managing editor. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders of Tomorrow, the Asia Society's Asia21 group, as well as a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute
and a cofounder of the U.S.-China Young Leaders Forum. Ramo is a member of the Board of Directors of Starbucks
and FedEx
.
Ramo is well-known for inventing the term "Beijing Consensus
" through a paper he wrote in 2004 of that title. He also served as on-air analyst for NBC during the 2008 Beijing Olympics and shared an Emmy and Peabody
award for his work on the Opening Ceremony alongside Matt Lauer
and Bob Costas
.
He is also the author of New York Times best-selling The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do about It and No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport.
" which identified a "China model" of economic development.
In 2006, Ramo conducted an extensive analysis of China's international image, relying on surveys of more than 25,000 people around the world in 40 countries, including China..
In 2010, Ramo introduced the concept of "Co-evolution" as a future model for US-China relations. Ramo argued that US-China relations had entered a new era where old ideas such as "containment" or "engagement" no longer made sense. He articulated a new model for ties between the two countries.
Kissinger Associates
Kissinger Associates, Inc., founded in 1982, is a New York City-based international consulting firm, founded and run by Henry Kissinger, and Brent Scowcroft...
, the consulting firm of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
Ramo was raised in Los Ranchos, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande River. He began flying in his late teens and wrote a book about his experiences as a competitive aerobatic pilot.
He joined Time in 1996 as the youngest senior editor in the magazine's history and went on to become its foreign editor and assistant managing editor. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders of Tomorrow, the Asia Society's Asia21 group, as well as a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute
Aspen Institute
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and a cofounder of the U.S.-China Young Leaders Forum. Ramo is a member of the Board of Directors of Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
and FedEx
FedEx
FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee...
.
Ramo is well-known for inventing the term "Beijing Consensus
Beijing Consensus
Beijing Consensus is a term that represents an alternative economic development model to the Washington Consensus of market-friendly policies promoted by the IMF, World Bank and U.S. Treasury, often for guiding reform in developing countries...
" through a paper he wrote in 2004 of that title. He also served as on-air analyst for NBC during the 2008 Beijing Olympics and shared an Emmy and Peabody
Peabody
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award for his work on the Opening Ceremony alongside Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer
Matthew Todd "Matt" Lauer . is an American television journalist best known as the host of NBC's The Today Show since 1997. He was previously a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and Richmond...
and Bob Costas
Bob Costas
Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costas is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s.-Early life:...
.
He is also the author of New York Times best-selling The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do about It and No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport.
Writings on China
In 2004, Ramo published ""Beijing ConsensusBeijing Consensus
Beijing Consensus is a term that represents an alternative economic development model to the Washington Consensus of market-friendly policies promoted by the IMF, World Bank and U.S. Treasury, often for guiding reform in developing countries...
" which identified a "China model" of economic development.
In 2006, Ramo conducted an extensive analysis of China's international image, relying on surveys of more than 25,000 people around the world in 40 countries, including China..
In 2010, Ramo introduced the concept of "Co-evolution" as a future model for US-China relations. Ramo argued that US-China relations had entered a new era where old ideas such as "containment" or "engagement" no longer made sense. He articulated a new model for ties between the two countries.