David Rothkopf

David Rothkopf is the president and chief executive officer of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm specializing in transformational international trends. He is also a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously, he was the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Intellibridge, a firm offering open-source intelligence and advisory services on international issues, which he came to after serving for two years as the managing director of Kissinger Associates. He also served as the deputy undersecretary of commerce for international trade in the Clinton administration.

Rothkopf came to the government after founding and serving as the chairman and chief executive officer of International Media Partners, where he was the editor and publisher of CEO magazine and the newspaper Emerging Markets, and chairman of the CEO Institutes. He currently serves as the chairman of the National Strategic Investment Dialogue and as a member of the advisory boards of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. An internationally known writer, he is the author of more than 150 articles on international themes for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and others. His most recent book is Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power.