Jonathan Tepperman
Author, journalist
Jonathan Tepperman is a journalist and author. He is currently the Editor-In-Chief of Foreign Affairs and the author of The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline (Crown, September 2016).
In 1998, he joined Foreign Affairs as a junior editor. A few years later, he moved to Newsweek, where he was deputy editor of the international edition. After a short stint as a political risk consultant, he returned to Foreign Affairs in 2011. Tepperman has written for a long list of publications, including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and others, on subjects ranging from international affairs to municipal politics. He has interviewed more than a dozen world leaders, including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Japan’s Shinzo Abe, Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto, Indonesia’s Joko Widodo, and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame. He is the co-editor of the books The U.S. vs. al Qaeda (2011), Iran and the Bomb (2012), and The Clash of Ideas (2012). He is vice chairman of the Halifax International Security Forum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of the New York Institute of Humanities.
Tepperman gave an introduction to the “Global Threats & Opportunities” subsection of The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017.
Twitter: @j_tepperman
