Andrei Cherny

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Andrei Cherny is a former senior speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, and the founder and co-editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He graduated with honors from Harvard College and received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).

Cherny was the youngest White House speechwriter in American history.^{[citation needed]} In 2000, Cherny was the lead negotiator and chief drafter of the national Democratic Party platform. He was the author of The Next Deal: The Future of Public Life in the Information Age, one of the top-selling political books of 2001. The Next Deal examined the role technological change has played in altering perceptions of major institutions over the course of American history and laid out a vision for government and businesses in the twenty-first century. From February 2003 to April 2004, Cherny served as a senior aide to John Kerry's Presidential campaign. In 2004, Cherny was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.

In addition to his professional work, Cherny is an officer in the United States Navy Reserve, and a contributor to a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and The New Republic.